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• Present Research Acitivity
  I am presently working on the Micromechanical Flying Insect project with Prof. Ron Fearing. Here is a brief description of my role in the research project.

• Research Background
  • B.Tech Project (Major Thesis) : ``Dynamic Analysis of flexible linkages'' under Prof. Shirish Chinchalkar (IIT, Bombay). This project involved the modeling and simulation of flexible linkages.
  • B.Tech Seminar (Minor Thesis) : ``Simulated Annealing'' under Prof. Shirish Chinchalkar (IIT, Bombay). This project involved studying the various approaches for implementing the Simulated Annealing algorithm and some of its engineering applications.
  • Summer Project : ``Automating the Processing of radiation dosimeters'' under Prof. D. B. Rajendran (BARC, Bombay). This project involved designing a system for automatically processing radiation dosimeters (small radiation tabs worn on person for measuring exposed radiation).
  • B.Tech Engineering Design Project : ``Design of an inexpensive LEGO-like kit for constructing engineering models'' under Prof. C Amarnath (IIT, Bombay). This project aimed at developing a complete set of tools and parts which would enable building working models of a variety of engineering models.

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• GSI for ME134 (Automatic Control Systems) under Prof. Roberto Horowitz (UC, Berkeley) in Fall 1999. I won the outstanding GSI award for this course. Please click here if the previous link has moved.
• GSI for ME132 under Prof. Hariharan Krishnan (Spring 2000)

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• I won the outstanding GSI award for ME134, a senior level UG controls course which I TAed under the guidance of Prof. Roberto Horowitz. Please click here if the previous link has moved.
• Stood second amongst more than 1000 participants from amongst 19 countries in the Oracle World Wide Web Online Programming Contest. (Jan 1999)
• Won the first prize in the ``Gripper Design'' contest (a national level design contest held at IIT, Bombay) (Jan 1999).
• Was awarded the state level prize for meritorious performance in both the S.S.S and H.S.S.C (secondary and higher secondary respectively) examinations.

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Academic

• B.Tech Project (Dynamic Analysis of Flexible Linkages) : This project involved modeling and simulating a flexible mechanism, using Ansi C. (IIT, Bombay)
• CASIM (Computer Aided Simulation of Mechanisms) : A program for modeling and simulating planar mechanisms containing springs and dashpots. Inter-body interactions such as collisions were modeled by very stiff springs. (IIT, Bombay)
• ME230 (Real Time Applications of Mini and Micro Computers) : This project involved writing a program with real time constraints for making a six-degree robotic manipulator draw on a real sheet of paper what the user drew on the computer screen. (UC, Berkeley)

• Compiler : Implemented the front end of the compiler which could compiler Ansi C like programs. This was done with a view to understand parsing and also UNIX tools such as yacc and lex.
• 3 Talk : A program to enable 3 persons to talk over a UNIX network. This was done with a view of understanding UNIX networking and protocols (the program used TCP/IP).
• Morphing / Animation package : A program for morphing between 2 line drawings. Subsequently used it to make a (very) elementary animation package.

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• I am very interested in sketching and painting and have won the 4th place in a state level sketching competition held in 1993. Besides this I have won several other prizes. I also held the hostel colors for Fine Arts during my stay at IIT, Bombay.
• I have published a cartoon serial which ran for 4 months in a news weekly.
• I have recently started on animation using the gimp (the Gnu Image Manipulation Program). Click here for a random collection of some of my work which has managed to get online.