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Dr. Sundar Krishnamurty, Associate Professor

207B ELab
University of Massachusetts
160 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-2210
E-mail: skrishna@ecs.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-0297
Fax: (413) 545-1027

 

 

Education:
B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, 1982;
M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1984;
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1989

Research Interests: Decision-based Design; Engineering Ontologies; Healthcare Engineering

Honors & Awards: 

  • Site-Director, UMass Center for e-Design, NSF-sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC).
  • Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanisms & Robotics
  • Best Paper Nomination, with student Paul Witherell and colleagues Dr. Ian Grosse and Dr. Jack Wileden, 28th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference, Cincinnati, June 2009.
  • Best Paper Nomination, with student Justin Rockwell and colleagues Dr. Ian Grosse and Dr. Jack Wileden, 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems Conference, Baltimore, May 2009.
  • Certificates of Appreciation, Massachusetts Association of Occupational Therapists, 2007, 2008
  • First Prize, “UMass-Therapeutic Systems,” Technology Innovation Competition, UMass-Amherst, Faculty Advisor of student Brian Mullen, 2007.
  • Finalist, Olympus Innovation Award, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, 2006.
  • Featured Faculty, with students Josh Doolittle and Clint Walton and Sarah’s Wish Foundation, “Portable Seat Belt,” CNN & AP News, 2006.
  • Featured Faculty, with student Brian Mullen and collaborator Tina Champagne from Cooley Dickinson Hospital, “New Vest Offers a Wearer a Portable Hug,” Front Page of the Business Innovation Section, Boston Globe, 2006.
     

Select Archival Publication 

  • Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, and Jack Wileden “Improved Knowledge Management through First-Order Logic in Engineering Design Ontologies,” Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), In press.
  • Rockwell, J., Krishnamurty, S., Grosse, I.R., and Wileden, J.C., “Integrating Distributed Design Information in Decision-based Design,” The Art and Science Behind Successful Product Launches, by Raghavan, N. R. Srinivasan (Editor), Cafeo, John A. (Editor), Springer Publisher, ISBN: 9048128595. 2009. 
  • Tiefu Shao and Sundar Krishnamurty, “A Preference-Performance Hybrid Method for Surrogate Model Updating in Engineering Design Optimization,” International Journal of Product Development (IJPD), International Journal of Product Development, Inderscience Publishers, 2009 - Vol. 9, No.1/2/3 pp. 218–264. 
  • Tiefu Shao and Sundar Krishnamurty, “A Clustering-based Surrogate Model Updating Approach to Simulation-based Engineering Design,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 130, pp.1-13, April 2008. • Brian Mullen, Tina Champagne, Sundar Krishnamurty, Debra Dickson and Robert Gao, “Exploring the Safety and Therapeutic Effects of Deep Pressure Stimulation using a Weighted Blanket,” Journal of Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, Vol. 24-01, pp: 65–89, February 2008. 
  • Krishnamurty, S., 2006, “Normative Decision Analysis in Engineering Design,” Decision Making in Engineering Design, Ed. K. Lewis, W. Chen and L. Schmidt, ASME Press, Ch. 4, pp. 21-35.

Personal Websites: e-Design Center; Portable Seatbelt; Therapeutic Systems

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