The instructor Dr. Narasimhan Swaminathan is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras. Prior to this position, he was a Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Narasimhan obtained his Ph.d. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. His current research areas include molecular simulations to study radiation damage, polymer mechanics. He also studies stress-diffusion interaction in Li-ion battery electrodes using continuum mechanics.
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