Sanjay Sarma
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Former Chairman of Research and Co-Founder of The Auto-ID Center, MIT
35-010, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
sesarma@mit.edu
617-253-1925 (m)978-394-0000
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Sarma is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995, his ME from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, and his B Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1989. He has previously worked for Schlumberger Oilfield Service and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories.
Dr. Sarma's teaching interests include geometry and computational geometry, manufacturing, computation, and mechanics and materials. He has won many awards, including the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, the Den Hartog Teaching Excellence Award, and the Joseph H. Keenan Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. His research is focused on radio frequency identification systems and embedded computing, computer-aided design and computational geometry, and machines and manufacturing.
In 1999, Professor Sarma, Dr. David Brock and Professor Sunny Siu co-founded The Auto-ID Center at MIT. The Center conducts research in several areas of automatic identification, radio frequency identification, data gathering systems, protocols, supply chain issues and networking. The Center has now grown to 5 labs worldwide, including the University of Cambridge, Adelaide University, Keio University and Fudan University.