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Welcome to Sriharsha's page! I am a Doctoral student in the department of Applied Physics at Columbia University. My current concentration is in the fields of solid state and nanoscience.
Previously, I was a graduate research assistant at Purdue University, where I graduated with a Masters' degree in Mechanical Engineering in Summer '08. Most of my work was at the Birck Nanotechnology Center where I was co-advised by Prof. Tim Fisher and Prof. Suresh Garimella. My research dealt with thermal transport in carbon nanotubes, and dry thermal interfaces using carbon nanotubes for electronics cooling. This study was funded by industry through the NSF Cooling Technologies Research Center at Purdue. Please visit my research section for more details and snippets from my current work.I graduated from the Indian Institute of Madras (IIT M) in Spring '06 with a major in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Chemistry. In India, I have had the pleasure of conducting research at GE Global Research's Electronic Devices and Molecular Modeling Lab, the Fluid Mechanics Lab at the Indian Institute of Science and at the Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility at IITM. My focus is to work on medium-term, industrially relevant problems involving micro-/nano- technologies, because I believe that these new technologies have tremendous potential for large scale application in many areas of life. Firstly, from a researcher's point of view, I believe that we live in exciting times now because, for the first time, atomic precision is accessible through instruments for study and manipulation into nanoscale engineered devices and solutions. Secondly, from an industry point of view, medium-term problems involving these technologies have the greatest potential for high impact innovations in unexplored, but highly practical areas of science.
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