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Dr. Sundar Krishnamurty, Associate Professor & Associate Department Head

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:

  • Finalist, Olympus Innovation Award, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, 2006-07
  • People’s Choice Award, "Therapeutic Systems," Faculty Advisor, Technology Innovation Competition, Elevator Pitch, UMass-Amherst, December 2007
  • "Portable Seat Belt," CNN, Boston Globe, USA Today, and several Regional, National, and International News Outlets, 2006
  • "New Vest Offers a Wearer a Portable Hug," Business Innovation Section, Boston Globe, October 2006
  • Nominee, Distinguished Faculty Advisor, UMass-Amherst, 1996, 2003

Select Archival Publications:

  • Tiefu Shao and Sundar Krishnamurty, "A Clustering-based Surrogate Model Updating Approach to Simulation-based Engineering Design," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, in press.
  • Tiefu Shao, Greg Wilmes and Sundar Krishnamurty, "Predictive Modeling in Engineering Design," American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal, Volume 45, Number 11, pp. 2688-2798, November 2007.
  • 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, To appear in January 2008.
  • Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, "Ontologies for Supporting Engineering Design Optimization," ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, JCISE-2006-2, Vol.7, No. 2, June 2007.
  • 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. Machine Theory, Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 797-810.

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

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