Sameer Sahasrabudhe

Teacher | Researcher | Designer | Animator

Location: Mumbai Area, India

Phone number +912225764913

iamsameerss@gmail.com

Work experience

12/2015 - present

Senior Project Research Scientist

IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

MOOCs offered

  • Basic 3D animation using Blender
  • 2015: Jul-Sep)2016: Feb-Mar, Jun-Oct)2017: Jan-Jun, Jul-Dec (IITBombayX)
  • 2018 Jan-Mar (IITBombayX and edX)
  • 3D architectural visualization )2016: Aug-Oct
  • Foundation Program in ICT for Education )2017: Aug-Sep
  • Pedagogy for Online & Blended Teaching-Learning Process )2017: Sep-Nov

Semester Courses offered

  • Human Computer Interaction: 30 hours-Value added Course at SIMSR, Somaiya Vidyavihar, Mumbai
  • 2016: Aug-Oct
  • Communication Skills: Co-Instructor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
  • 2016, 2017, 2018

Workshops offered

  • Creating Learner-Centric MOOCs: IIT Bombay (2017)
  • Computer Game Creation: JIT Borawan, (Madhya Pradesh) & DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai (2016 & 2017)
  • Affordances for designing Serious games: International Conference on Technology for Education (2014)
  • Blender: Modeling, Animation, Gaming, 3D visualization, and Mental rotation. (Across the country) (2008-2018)
  • Instructional design: Focused for research scholars and teachers (2010)

09/2014 - 11/2015

Senior Faculty Associate

School of Vocational Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

  • Design and creation theMOOC(SKANI101x: Basic 3D animation using Blender). Offered on IITBombayX platform
  • Streamline content design and dissemination process for the courses

08/2002 - 09/2014

Senior Project Manager

Dept of CSE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai

  • Project OSCAR: Visual design of interactive learning objects, Setup of animation lab
  • Ekalavya and eOutreach: Setting up video capturing and post production facilities
  • Developmental Informatics Lab: Creating video documentation of new initiatives

08/1998 - 08/2002

Head of the Digital department & Core team member

ZICA Studios, Mumbai

  • Created animation for the feature film: ?Bhagmati?, Set up animation post production work-flow, Supervised special effects, & Mentored the team

01/1994 - 08/1995

Senior Creative Executive

Market Missionaries (I) Pvt Ltd, Pune

  • Create visual design layouts for advertisement media & Assisting Art Directors for creating visual identity

Education

09/2010 - 03/2016

PhD

YCMOU, India

04/2009 - 05/2010

PGDDE

IGNOU, India

03/1995 - 06/1998

PGDAFM

ZICA Studios, India

04/1987 - 06/1992

BFA

GSA, India


Honorary positions and awards

Principal Investigator

  • Accessible Audiovisual Content For Special Education, Project by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2016-18)

Member

  • Board of Studies, Dept of IT, University of Mumbai. (Since 2015)
  • Experts panel, iPixio Animation College, Bengaluru. (Since 2015)
  • Board of Studies, Deviprasad Goenka College of Media, Mumbai. (Since 2015)

Program committee (Conferences)

  • Technology for Education, T4E (2010-2015)
  • EpiSTEMe (2015)
  • ICACTA (2015)

Academic council

  • Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), Nashik, (2006-2010)
  • Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai (Since 2018)

Syllabus committee

  • UG course in Animation, RTM Nagpur University, (2008)

Certifications

  • Microsoft Research India Summer School, (ICT for development), India (2010)
  • IDC, IIT Bombay, Short-term course on HCI, India (2009)
  • Apple Asia, Apple Distinguished Educator, Thailand (2007)

Design and film

Book design

  • Computer Masti: Set of 8 books designed for teaching computers in schools. Designed overall aesthetics, visual treatment, and page layouts.
  • Punctuations: Editorial team member of the coffee table book with over 300 photographs to commemorate 50 years of IIT Bombay (2008).
  • Kuhoo: Art direction for the First multimedia novel in India having video of 210 minutes recorded script of the novel. Created Motion graphics for 22 songlets using images, videos, animation, special effects and calligraphy

Films

  • Direction: Documentary Films (3)
  • Technology enabled Agri?Culture, Screened at ICT4D film festivals, New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur (2009)
  • Sunlight at night, Certificate of appreciation, Govt of India (2010)
  • Fun with Science, Certificate of appreciation, Govt of India (2010)
  • Direction: Animation shorts (2)
  • STOP Female Foeticide: Winner at FICCI-BAF?08 & UNICEF-Laadli?09
  • 1st Prize, Screened at MIFF 1998
  • Special Effects and Sound Design: Animation shorts (3)
  • Ganapati Bappa Morya (Screened at MIFF?98), Khayali Pulav, Blue Moon

Publications

p Journal Articles

Sahasrabudhe, S., Murthy, S., & Iyer, S. (2017) (In writing) Embedding visual

communication principles in instructional design template using design based

research method. For British Journal of Education Technology

Sahasrabudhe, S., Murthy, S., & Iyer, S. (2013). Applying Design Based Research

to create Instructional Design templates for Learning Objects. In New Frontiers

in Education (Jan-Mar 2013) ISSN: 0047-970

Sahasrabudhe, S., Murthy, S., & Iyer, S. (2012). Applying traditional animation

principles for creating learning objects. In New Frontiers in Education (Jul-Sep

2012) ISSN: 0047-9705

Conference Proceedings

Sahasrabuddhe A. and Sahasrabudhe S. (2018). Science Education Through

Accessible Video Content, Poster accepted at 18th International Conference on

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) Mumbai, India IEEE.

Mehta S., Sahasrabudhe S., and Ayer N. (2018), Auto-grading Pipeline for 3D

Modeling Assignments in MOOCs, Short paper accepted at 18th International

Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) Mumbai, India IEEE.

Nanaware T., Sahasrabudhe S., Ayer N., and Christo R. (2018), Fingerspelling -

Indian Sign Language Training Tool, Accepted at 18th International Conference

on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) Mumbai, India IEEE.

Majumdar R. and Sahasrabudhe, S. (2016). Content Creation and Pedagogic

Strategies for Skill Development MOOC, International Conference on

Computers in Education (ICCE), Mumbai, India. APSCE

Majumdar R. and Sahasrabudhe, S. (2016). MOOCfor skill development in 3D

animation, In 16th International Conference on Advanced Learning

Technologies (ICALT), Texas-Austin, USA, IEEE

Sahasrabudhe, S., Bhawar, P., Ayer, N., (2014). Netra3D: Android application

having affordances of tablet computers. In International Conference on

Technology for Education (T4E), Kollam, India. IEEE

Majumdar, R., Bhawar, P., Sahasrabudhe, S., & Dinesan, P. (2014). HasTA: Hasta

Training Application Learning Theory Based Design of Bharatanatyam Hand

Gestures Tutor. In 14th International Conference on Advanced Learning

Technologies (ICALT), IEEE.

Kadam, K., Sahasrabudhe, S., Iyer, S., & Kamat, V., (2013). Integration of Blender

3D in Basic Computer Graphics Course, 21st International Conference on

Computers in Education 2013, Bali, APSCE

Bhawar, P., Ayer, N., &; Sahasrabudhe, S., (2013). Methodology to create

optimized 3D models using Blender for Android devices. 5th International

Conference on Technology for Education (T4E) 2013, Kharagpur, India, IEEE

Sahasrabudhe, S., Shah, A., Thakkar, M., Thakkar, V., & Iyer, S. (2012).

MathMazing: 3D gesture recognition exergame for arithmetic skills. In 20th

International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Singapore, APSCE

Kadam, K., Sahasrabudhe, S., &Iyer, S. (2012). Improvement of Mental Rotation

Ability Using Blender 3-D. (2012). 4th International Conference on Technology

for Education, . IEEE.

Dere, S.; Sahasrabudhe, S.; Iyer, S.; Creating open source repository of 3D

models of laboratory equipments using Blender, International Conference on

Technology for Education (T4E), IEEE.

Sahasrabudhe, S., & Iyer, S. (2009). Creating 3D animations of laboratory

experiments using open source tools. In International Conference on E Learning

(ICEL), Toronto, Canada.

Kadam, K., Sahasrabudhe, S., (2009), APP2MID: Conversion of JAVA applets

animation to JAVA midlets, International Conference on Emerging Trends in

Engineering and Technology, (ICETET). Nagpur, India IEEE.

Krithivasan S., Baru M., & Sahasrabudhe S., (2005), Achieving stability on VSAT

networks, Case Study: Distance Education Program at IIT Bombay?, at

International Conference on Distance Education (ICDE), New Delhi, India, IEEE.

Language skills

Languages

Marathi - Native or bilingual proficiency

Hindi - Full professional proficiency

English - Professional working proficiency