Dr. Ravi Kumar G. V. V. is Associate Vice President and Head Advanced Engineering Group (AEG) of Engineering Services, Infosys. He has led numerous innovation and applied research projects for more than 25 years. His areas of expertise include mechanical structures and systems, knowledge-based engineering, composites, artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, AR, VR and Industry 4.0. He is involved in the development of commercial products like AUTOLAY (CADDS-COMPOSITES) - a spin-off Indian LCA(Tejas) program, Nia Knowledge - a knowledge-based engineering platform and KRTI 4.0 - an operational excellence framework. He contributed to many Industry 4.0 implementation projects and played a key role in the development of Industry 4.0 maturity index under the umbrella of Acatech, Germany. He is involved in the development of advanced robotics and autonomous systems which includes India’s first autonomous buggy. He is also involved in various initiatives of the World Economic Forum (WEF) fourth industrial revolution technologies in production. He is a member of the HM-1 and chair of G-31 technical committees of SAE International contributed to aerospace standards development. Dr. Ravi Kumar has published more than fifty technical papers and three patents. He has a Ph.D. and an M.Tech in Applied Mechanics from IIT Delhi, and a BE (Honors) from BITS Pilani, India.