Karthik Ramani

Born|

India

Citizenship| American
Alma mater| Stanford University
Awards| Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, ASME Fellow (2010)
Scientific career
Fields| Mechanical Engineering and Computer Vision
Institutions| Purdue University

Karthik Ramani is an Indian born American researcher, mechanical engineer, and entrepreneur.[1] He is the Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, with courtesy appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Educational Studies in the College of Education.[2] Previously, from 2001-2008, he was the Director of the Center for Information Sciences in Engineering at Purdue University.[3]

## Education and career

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Karthik Ramani received his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1985, M.S. in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University in 1987, and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1991.

He became an assistant professor at Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering in 1991, an associate professor in 1997, a professor in 2001, the Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2010, and appointed as a distinguished professor in 2020.

## Research

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Ramani is best known for his work on computer vision, human-computer interaction, and computational fabrication.

His research areas include design, manufacturing and materials processing, robotics, and computational engineering with interests in human skill and augmentation, collaborative and hybridized intelligence, deep learning of shapes and computer vision, human-robot-machine interactions, making to manufacturing (M2M), factory of the future and robotics, and manufacturing productivity.

Ramani's papers titled Three-dimensional shape searching: state-of-the-art review and future trends (2005)[4] and On visual similarity based 2D drawing retrieval (2006),[5] along with subsequent patents,[6][7] led to the formation of VizSeek (formerly Imaginestics), the world’s first commercial shape-based search engine.

For his work at VizSeek, Ramani was awarded the Outstanding Commercialization Award for Purdue University Faculty in 2009.[8]

### Most cited works

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As of February 12, 2020 Ramani's three most cited works (according to Google Scholar), in decreasing order of citations were:

1. The status, challenges, and future of additive manufacturing in engineering (2015)[9]
2. Three-dimensional shape searching: state-of-the-art review and future trends (2005)[4]
3. The evolution, challenges, and future of knowledge representation in product design systems (2013)[10]

## Awards

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In 2020, Ramani was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University[11]

He has also received other awards and honors in research, education, and innovation, including:

* Best of Consumer Electronics Show Finalist (2016)[12] and the TiE50 Silicon Valley award (2018)[13] for ZeroUI's Ziro
* Highly Cited Author Award, Elsevier Computer-Aided Design Journal (2015)
* Research Excellence Award,[14] American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Computers and Information in Engineering Division) (2014)
* Kos Ishii Toshiba Award, ASME (2013)[15]
* ASME Fellow (2010)
* Tibbetts Award from the Small Business Technology Council for VizSeek/Imaginestics (2007)[16]
* Innovation of the Year Award Finalist, Techpoint Mira Awards (2006)[17]
* Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (1999)
* Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (1996)

## References

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1. ^ "Karthik Ramani Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved February 9, 2020.
2. ^ "Karthik Ramani's Purdue University Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile". Purdue University. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
3. ^ "Purdue engineers design 'shape-search' for industry databases". Purdue University. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
4. ^ a b Iyer, Natraj; Jayanti, Subramaniam; Lou, Kuiyang; Kalyanaraman, Yagnanarayanan; Ramani, Karthik (2005). "Three-dimensional shape searching: state-of-the-art review and future trends". Computer-Aided Design. 37 (5). Elsevier's Computer-Aided Design: 509–530\. doi:10.1016/j.cad.2004.07.002. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
5. ^ Pu, Jiantao; Ramani, Karthik (2006). "On visual similarity based 2D drawing retrieval". Computer-Aided Design. 38 (3). Elsevier's Computer-Aided Design: 249–259\. doi:10.1016/j.cad.2005.10.009. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
6. ^ US patent 9348877B2, "Methods, systems, and data structures for performing searches on three dimensional objects"
7. ^ US patent 8145545B2, "Method of enabling a user to draw a component part as input for searching component parts in a database"
8. ^ "Purdue professor wins commercialization award". Purdue University. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
9. ^ Gao, Wei; Zhang, Yunbo; Ramanujan, Devarajan; Ramani, Karthik; Chen, Yong; Williams, Christopher B.; Wang, Charlie C.L.; Shin, Yung C.; Zhang, Song; Zavattieri, Pablo D. (2015). "The status, challenges, and future of additive manufacturing in engineering". Computer-Aided Design. 69. Elsevier's Computer-Aided Design: 65–89\. doi:10.1016/j.cad.2015.04.001. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
10. ^ Chandrasegaran, Senthil K.; Ramani, Karthik; Sriram, Ram D.; Horváth, Imré; Bernard, Alain; Harik, Ramy F.; Gao, Wei (2013). "The evolution, challenges, and future of knowledge representation in product design systems". Computer-Aided Design. 45 (2). Elsevier's Computer-Aided Design: 204–228\. doi:10.1016/j.cad.2012.08.006. S2CID 1056935. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
11. ^ "Purdue trustees ratify distinguished faculty, posthumous degree". Purdue University. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
12. ^ "Introducing the Best of CES 2016 finalists!". Engadget. 7 January 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
13. ^ "Technology developed by ME's Ramani wins top Silicon Valley award". Purdue University. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
14. ^ "Excellence In Research Award". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
15. ^ "Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
16. ^ "Imaginestics LLC to receive small business technology award from national association". Retrieved February 12, 2020.
17. ^ "Purdue wins 'Innovation of the Year' at 2006 Techpoint MIRA". Purdue University. Retrieved February 12, 2020.

## External links

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* Karthik Ramani's Personal Web Site
* Karthik Ramani publications indexed by Google Scholar
* Karthik Ramani's Twitter

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States

Academics|

* Association for Computing Machinery
* Google Scholar
* 2
* DBLP

Other|

* IdRef