Kas Kasravi, C.Mfg.E., MS, JD

Teaching Areas:

Human-Centered Engineering Design, Prototyping and Product Development, Probability and Statistics, Introduction to Engineering, Engineering Economy and Decision Analysis. His areas of interest include invention methodologies, patent law, 3D printing, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

Prof. Kasravi is a Clinical Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department and the Director of EPIC at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has 30 years of industry experience in General Motors, Electronic Data Systems, and Hewlett-Packard at various capacities including Staff Engineer, Technical Fellow, and Vice President. He developed innovative solutions for diverse industries including automotive, manufacturing, defense, pharmaceuticals, and financial. He is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer and has degrees in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, and law. He has two GM Trade Secrets, a Smithsonian award for a GM project, and has been granted 32 patents.
 

Selected Publications:
•    K. Kasravi, O. Nikolsky, P. Thomas, P. Parasurama, “Mobile Device Cursor Control with Finger Taps”, HP Tech Con, 2015
•    K. Kasravi, J. Cooper, D. Crane, “Virtual Mobile Phone”, HP Tech Con, 2013
•    J. D. Gibson, K. Kasravi, “Predicting the Future of IT Services with TRIZ”, Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, 2012
•    K. Kasravi, K. Ozonat, C. Bartolini, “Combinatorial Document Matching: A Patent Case Study”, Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management Conference, 2012
•    K. Kasravi, K. Ozonat, C. Bartolini, “Patent Obviousness Detection”, HP Labs, HPL-2011-206
•    K. Kasravi, M. Risov, "Multivariate Patent Similarity Detection", Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2008
 

Selected Patents:

• Virtual mobile device system and method thereof (US10986089)
• Personalized desktop organizer (US10420419)
• Discrete cursor movement based on touch input (US10175779)
• Valuating intellectual assets (US8255309)
• Apparatus, and an associated method, for forming a traffic route visualization (US7692558)
• Autonomous knowledge discovery system and method (US5933818)