Dr.

Shilpi Bora
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering Design
MIT Academic of Engineering, Alandi, Pune
PhD from Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Guwahati, India
Visiting Scholar, Shantou University, Shantou, China
Email: shilpi.ergonomics@gmail.com; shilpi.bora@iitg.ac.in
Phone: +91-9706065069

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

PhD (2013-2018) Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, India

PhD Topic: An Ergonomic Study on Occupational Wellbeing and Womanness Issues of Assam
Police
Supervisor: Prof Dr. Debkumar Chakarbarti, Professor, IIT Guwahati, Director In charge, Central
Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar, India
Secured 93.67 %
Subjects: Human Factor and Ergonomics / Design: An Introduction / Design Semantics /
Research Methodology

M Sc. (2011-2013) Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India

Human Factor and Ergonomics, Interior Design, Resource Management
Secured 78.65 % (Equivalent GPA: 8.06)
Subjects: Work and Work station Design / Approaches to Resource Management / Research
Methodology / Statistics / Advance Housing / Consumer Ergonomics / Technical writing and
communication skills / Advance Interior space and Management / diffusion and adoption of
innovation / Musculoskeletal Disorder / Sampling Techniques (to name a few)

B Sc. (2006-2010) Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India

Human Factor and Ergonomics, Interior Design, Resource Management
Secured 70.50 % (Equivalent GPA: 7.05)
|Subjects: Ergonomics / Biomechanics / Applied Ergonomics / Storage Design / Art principle &
Interior Enrichment / Floriculture & Landscape Gardening / Space Designing / Ergonomics Manual
Materials handling / Elements of Design / Principle of design / Applied Craft / Anthropometry /
Human Psychology / Auto Cad

Agricultural Subjects: Agricultural Research, Research Ethics & Rural Development programs /
Intellectual Property & its management in Agriculture / Extension / Basic Concept in laboratory
Techniques / Development Communication & information Management / Disaster Management /
Diffusion & adoption of Innovation / Rural sociology / Introductory to Bio-Chemistry / Introduction
to Economic Analysis / Commercial Processing of Fruits & vegetables / Floriculture & Landscape
Gardening / Commercial Flower Production / General Microbiology/ Horticulture / Production &
Post Harvest management of Mushroom / Principle of Plant Disease Management / System
Approach to Teaching Research & Extension / Rural Youth and Women

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Human Factors and Ergonomics /Occupational well-being / Ergonomics Design Intervention /

Design / Design Thinking / Product Design / Musculoskeletal Disorder / Anthropometry

SOFTWARES

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences / Statistica / Auto desk Invention / Auto
Desk fusion 360 / Room sketcher / Auto Cad

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Assistant Professor: 8/18 – Present

2. Visiting Faculty at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune : 1 month January 2019
3. Teaching Assistantship: 2013 – 2018 IIT Guwahati (5 Years)
4. May – July 2017 [Visiting Scholar at Shantou University, China]
5. April 2018 [Visiting Scholar at Shantou University, China]
6. August 2015– July 2018 [Senior Research Fellow (SRF) at IIT Guwahati, India]
7. July 2013– July 2015 [Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at IIT Guwahati, India]
8. May 2013- June 2013 [Guest Faculty, Sibsagar Girls College, Sibsagar, India] Teaching:
Interior Design and Accessories Design

PUBLICATIONS

1. Shilpi Bora, Yogesh Bhalerao, Ankit Goyala, D. Chakrabartid, Dezhi Chena, Nengsheng
Baoa, Xiaodong Niua, Akhil Garga (2019). Computation of safety design indexes of
industry vehicle operators based on the reach angle, the distance from elbow to ground
and the popliteal height; International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 71; 155-164
2. Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Debkumar Chakrabarti. Perceived Occupational
Wellbeing of Policewomen after Ergonomic Design Intervention. International Ergonomics
Conference HWWE 2016. International Journal of Human Factor and Ergonomics
3. Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Pallavi Rani, Debkumar Chakrabarti. On-the-Job Stress:
Interventions to Improve the Occupational Well-being of Policewomen in Assam, India.
Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS), 2016. Vol. 18 (1), 73-86
4. Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Saugata Kamakar, Debkumar Chakrabarti.
Implementation of Ergonomic Design Interventions to Improve Workplace Amenities for
Assam Policewomen. 6th International Conference on Research into Design (Icord),2017.
Research into Design for Communities, Volume 1. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation,
Systems and Technologies, vol 65. Springer, Singapore
5. Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Debkumar Chakrabarti. 2017. An Ergonomic
Interventional Approach to Improve Office Workspace for Policewomen in Assam, India.
 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Los Angeles,
USA.
6. Shilpi Bora, Debkumar Chakrabarti. Occupational Wellbeing Issues in Police with Specific
Reference to Womanhood. In: Chakrabarti D et al (Eds): ‘User Centred Design and
Occupational Wellbeing – Proceedings of International Ergonomics Conference HWWE
2014’, McGraw Hill Education (Professional), New Delhi, India; 2014.
7. Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Debkumar Chakrabarti. Ergonomic Enrichment of the
Working Condition of Assamese Policewomen. International Ergonomics Conference
HWWE, Springer 2015
8. Bora S., Chatterjee A. and Chakrabarti D. Workspace Amenities for Assam Policewomen:
Ergonomic Interventions. XXVIIth Annual Conference of the Physiological Society of India
(PSI) VIth Congress of the Federation of Indian Physiological Societies (FIPS), 2015.
9. Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Debkumar Chakrabarti. Office Workspace Design for
Policewomen in Assam, India: Applications for Developing Countries. 19th International
Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics Tokyo, Japan,
ICEPCE, 2017 (abstract accepted)
10. Pallavi Rani, Shilpi Bora, Dr. D. Udaya Kumar. A Study On Enrichment of the Rural Mural
Painting of Jharkhand, India, The International Conference On Art and Humanities,
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2015
11. Pallavi Rani, Shilpi Bora, Dr. D. Udaya Kumar. A Comparative Study of the Rural Mural
Paintings of Jharkhand and West Bengal, International Conference On Comparative
Literature and Culture, Nagpur, Mumbai,2015
12. Wanrisa Bok Kharkongor, Arunita Paul, Shilpi Bora, Debkumar Chakrabarti. Meghalaya
Tourism: Inculcating Cultural Image in developing en-route mini halts. Research into
Design for Communities, Volume 2. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and
Technologies, vol 66. Springer, Singapore.
13. Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Debkumar Chakrabarti. Occupational wellbeing of
policewomen in India and China: Scope of Ergonomics Design Intervention., pp 233- 244,
springer Switzerland, proceeding of the 20th congress of the international ergonomics
association.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

1. B.Sc. Project: Rural Work Experience Program

2. Landscape and interior planning with Ergonomics Intervention for Rural and Urban region
3. In Plant Training in Interior Design Firm
4. M.Sc. Project Work entitled ‘A Study on Housing Safety Consideration in Jorhat district of
Assam’
5. Project for Swing Machine Design and comfort level of women working in a Tailoring shop
in Jorhat District of Assam
6. Anthropometric measurements such as human body dimensions for ergonomics design
interventions in interior planning of house
7. PhD Thesis work: An Ergonomic Study on Occupational Wellbeing and Womanness
Issues of Assam Police
 SKILL (I am always open to learning new things)

Human Factor and Ergonomics, Design, Design Thinking, RULA REBA, Heart Rate Variability
(HRV), Eye Tracking, Biomechanics, Hand Eye coordination, Electromyography, Musculoskeletal
Disorder, Product Design, Ethnographic Studies, Ergonomics Design Intervention, Scientific
writing, Technical writing and communication Skill, Occupational Wellbeing, office Ergonomics
Work Station, Anthropometric Dimension of human body, Ergonomics Assessment Tools

ACHIEVEMENTS
1. MHRD Scholarship: 2013 – 2018
2. Qualified CEED (Common Entrance Examination of Design): 2013
3. Visiting Scholar at Shantou University: 2017 & 2018
4. Session Chair at AHFE Conference 2017 USA, Los Angeles
5. Invited as a Speaker at Kaliber AI Company, San Francisco, USA, 2019

EXTRACURRICULAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. Selected for Republic Day Parade camp in the January 26, 2013
2. Parade commander for 6 years (2007 – 2013) at Assam Agricultural University
3. Selected for Inter College Meet of Assam Agricultural University both for cultural and
sports activity every year from 2006 – 2013
4. Selected for ‘All India Agricultural Unifest Programme’ held at Raipur (2006 – 2007) and
Rajasthan (2008 – 2009) for cultural activity
5. Sports : Badminton, Athletic, volley ball, Arm Wrestling, Cricket