PhD work

When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains,
however improbable,
must be the truth
--
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Welcome

Experience

Awards

Activities

MEMC logo I was a Senior Solar Market Research Analyst at MEMC Electronic Materials from 2009-12. I focused on market research and business intelligence covering the entire solar value chain.
   
mckinsey logo I was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company from 2007-09. I worked extensively with the Climate Change Special Initiative and the Product Development practice.
   
PhD research As part of my Ph.D. research, I invented a manufacturing process and machine for production of thin PDMS films down to 50 microns in thickness. My research interests include adhesion mechanics, interface physics, polymer manufacturing and machine design.
   
RealTimeRome RealTimeRome was an exhibit at the 10th International Architectural Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2006.Cellphone usage in the city of Rome was displayed in (quasi) -real-time at the exhibit in Venice. I was part of the team from MIT's Senseable City Lab that created the exhibit.
   
ShuttleTrack MIT ShuttleTrack is a real-time web-based vehicle tracking service. Salil Soman and I led the deployment of ShuttleTrack in 2002-03. We were funded by MIT-Microsoft iCampus initiative and the MIT Office of Parking and Transportation. (Note: The original student-created version of ShuttleTrack has been replaced by a commercial service since 2008)
   
6 dof haptics As part of my Masters research, I developed collision detection algorithms between non-convex 3-D solid models. I collaborated with Dr. Yoshitaka Adachi (then at Suzuki Motor Corporation) to implement the algorithm on a 6-DOF haptic system.
   
Shaft coupling As part of MIT's 2.75 Precision Machine Design course, we invented a new shaft coupling with no backlash, high stiffness and with ease of blind assembly.

Publications

[5] Sriram K, S. E. Sarma, A process for manufacturing very thin PDMS films, Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, Vol. 37, 2009
[4] Sriram K., S. E. Sarma, Robust spin-coating of thin PDMS films, Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, Vol. 36, 2008
[3] Sriram K., S. E. Sarma, Improving reliability in peeling thin PDMS films, Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, Vol.35, pp. 145-152, 2007
[2] M. Balasubramaniam, K. Sriram, S. K. Son, E. Golaski, A. Slocum, An anti-backlash two-part shaft coupling with interlocking elastically averaged teeth,J. of Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Vol. 26(3), pp. 314-330, July 2002.
[1] K. Balaji, K. Sriram, V. Ramamurti, Development of user-friendly programs for static and dynamic analysis of radial impellers, J. of Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 31(10), pp. 775-791 Oct 1999.

Conferences

Sriram K., S. E. Sarma, A 2-D near peel-front model for soft-lithography, American Society of Precision Engineering spring topical meeting, 2005.