Asim Tewari is a Professor(HAG) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty member of the Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (C-MInDS) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Technology (B.Tech.) from IIT Kanpur and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. With over twenty-five years of work experience in both corporate R&D and national research laboratories, he has made significant contributions to the field in Applied Artificial Intelligence in engineering systems and processes. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences, as well as secured eleven international and ten Indian patents. Under his guidance, eighteen Ph.D. students have graduated, along with more than fifty M.S. students. Over the last decade, he has secured research funding of over $15 million.

At IIT Bombay, he has been instrumental in establishing several state-of-the-art facilities, including a Research Facility for Technical Textiles, a Medical Device Innovation Centre (BETiC), an Advanced Machining Excellence Cell, a Fiber Composite Research Laboratory, 4D X-ray Microscopy Laboratory, an experimental lab for thermo-mechanical simulation, and a Nano-characterization Texture Laboratory.

For the last decade, he has been working on the application of artificial intelligence in various domains. He established a Cyber-Physical Systems and Data Analytics research group at IIT Bombay, which focuses on smart manufacturing, machine learning, data analytics, and IoT for various sectors, including manufacturing, transportation, and defense. The group also works on video comprehension based on deep learning for inference and surveillance. Notably, the group has developed end-to-end solutions for digital factories using indigenous industrial IoT devices, cloud networking, and artificial intelligence backends. They have several international and Indian industrial projects to their credit and offer executive training on AI and digital transformation to industry.