Associate
Professor
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear
Engineering
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
JEC 2046
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110, 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
Phone: (518) 276-6096
Fax: (518) 276-6025
Email: des@rpi.edu
Education
B.E., Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India – Mechanical Engineering (1993)
M.E., Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore – Mechanical
Engineering (1995)
Sc. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Mechanical
Engineering (2001)
Experience
Research
Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics, MIT, 2001
Visiting Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics, MIT, 2002-present
Assistant
Professor, Department of MANE, RPI, 2002-2007
Associate Professor, Department of MANE, RPI, 2007-
Research Interests
- Multiscale computations
- Meshfree methods
- Virtual environments
- Haptics
