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Short Biography of Dr. Sanjay Sarma

Dr. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. In between degrees, Sarma worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. Sarma's Masters thesis was in the area of operations research, and his Ph.D. was in the area of manufacturing automation. Since 1996, Sarma has been an assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research projects are in the areas of radio frequency identification, IC packaging, manufacturing, CAD/CAM, machine design, RFID applications, device networking and smart devices. Sarma is co-founder of the Auto-ID Center, one of the principal architects of the physical networking framework proposed by the Center, the Director of Research of the MIT Auto-ID Lab, and the Chairman of Research of the 6 Auto-ID Labs Worldwide. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair at MIT, the Ferry Award, the Den Hartog Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Keenan Award for innovations in undergraduate education and the New England Business and Technology Award, and he was selected on this years Business Week ebiz 25. He has over 50 publications in computational geometry, virtual reality, manufacturing, CAD, RFID, security and embedded computing.

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