Karthik Ramani

Purdue University
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering (by Courtesy)
School of Mechanical Engineering, 585 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2040

Biography:
Karthik Ramani is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He earned his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1985, an MS from The Ohio State University, in 1987, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991, all in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked as a summer intern in Delco Products, Advanced Composites, and as a summer faculty intern in Dow Plastics, Advanced Materials. He was awarded the Dupont Young Faculty Award, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding contributions to the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum. In 2002, he was recognized by Purdue University through a University Faculty Scholars Award and won the NSF partnership for innovation award. In 2005 he won the Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award for his work in shape search. In 2006 he won the innovation of the year award (finalist) from the State of Indiana. He developed many successful new courses - Computer-Aided Design and Prototyping, Product and Process Design and co-developed an Intellectual Property course. He also serves as the chief scientist at Imaginestics, a knowledge-based software company that has launched the worlds first on-line search engine for the global supply chain. He serves in the editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Computer-Aided Design. His interests are in digital and computational geometry, shape search, shape design and analysis, configuration, constraint representation and solving, and early design. His current work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF-CISE), National Institute of Health (NIH), Imaginestics, Defense Logistics Agency, The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, and a consortium including IBM and Unigraphics. He has published 63 Journal and 103 conference papers, and a co-inventor in 7 U.S. Patents. He is also currently serving the National Science Foundation Committee of Visitors for Industrial Innovation and Partnerships and advisory committee for 2007-10. In 2007, he won the most cited journal paper award for the period 2004-06 from Computer-Aided Design, the Research Excellence Award throughout the College of Engineering at Purdue University, and Thomas French Award for Outstanding Educator from The Ohio State University.

Talk Title: Shape Search Sciences: From Engineering Design to Proteomics

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