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Director

Vinayak Krishnamurthy is an associate professor and Morris E. Foster faculty fellow in the J. Mike Walker’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (by affiliation). He directs the Mixed-Initiative Design Lab (MIDL) at Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in December 2015. Before joining Texas A&M, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Purdue University.
His research is positioned at the intersection of computer-aided product design, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. His research seeks to make fundamental contributions to the disciplinary areas of geometric & topological computing, virtual/augmented/mixed reality, and intelligent user interfaces for design. He applies the knowledge gained in these areas to various domains such as metamaterial design, computational fabrication, data-driven design, collaborative design, autonomous systems, surgical training, and engineering education. His previous work on gesture based shape conceptualization has also led to the commercial deployment of a mid-air virtual pottery application in collaboration with ZeroUI, a Cupertino-based software start-up.