• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • J. Mike Walker '66 Career Development Professor
  • Affiliated Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering
Vinayak Krishnamurthy

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University – 2015
  • M.Sc., Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India – 2010
  • B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India – 2006

Research Interests

    • Generative Design
    • Human-AI Collaboration in Design
    • Geometric & Topological Modeling
    • Algorithms for Additive Manufacturing
    • Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality

Awards & Honors

  • Association of Former Students College Level Teaching Award, Texas A&M University - 2024
  • ASME Computer-Aided Product and Process Development (CAPPD) Technical Committee Best Paper Award - 2023
  • CPDM Ambassador for contributions to Design Research and Education, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru - 2023
  • ASME Computer-Aided Product and Process Development (CAPPD) Technical Committee Best Paper Award - 2022
  • ASME CIE Young Engineer Award - 2021
  • NSF CAREER Award - 2021
  • Winner of the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGGRAPH - 2019
  • Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching - 2018
  • All-Conference Best Paper Award, ASME IDETC/CIE - 2012

Selected Publications

  • Matthew Ebert, Riddhi Adhikari, Vinayak Krishnamurthy, et. al., ABC-Auxetics: An Implicit Design Approach for Negative Poisson’s Ratio Materials, Advanced Engineering Materials, January 2024
  • Noah Hill, Matt Ebert, Vinayak R. Krishnamurthy, et. al., Cellular Chaos: Statistically Self-Similar Structures based on Chaos Game, ASME Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering May 2024; 24(5): 051003.
  • Vinayak Krishnamurthy, Laxmi Poudel, Matthew Ebert, et. al., LayerLock: Layer-wise Collision-free Multi-Robot Additive Manufacturing Using Topologically Interlocked Space-Filling Shapes, Computer-Aided Design, Computer-Aided Design, Volume 152, 2022, 103392, ISSN 0010-4485
  • Shantanu Vyas, Shivangi Dwivedi, Vinayak R. Krishnamurthy, et. al, Adaptive Training on Basic AR Interactions: Bi-Variate Metrics and Neuroergonomic Evaluation Paradigms, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2023.2250578.
  • Shantanu Vyas, Ting-Ju Chen, Vinayak Krishnamurthy, et. al., Reflect-Express-Transform: Investigating Speech-based Iterative Digital Design for Young Designers, ASME Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering, Jun 2023, 23(3): 030905