Madhu is from Thiruvananthapuram, India, where he received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kerala in 1987. After an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1988, he worked as a research assistant at the same Institute on interference effects in droplet combustion, and later as a scientist with the Indian Space Research Organization's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle project. He joined UCSD in 1989, where he started working on new processing methods for Carbon-Carbon composites made from mesophase pitch. He received his M.S in Chemical Engineering in 1992, and later started working on computational fluid dynamics. He received his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering in 1997, writing his thesis on a hydrodynamic stability problem in two-fluid flow.
Since July 1997, he has been working as a postdoc at CMRR, where he has been developing a code to simulate the time-dependent mechanics of the one-dimensional linear head-tape interface. This will be a useful tool to study tape tension and tape speed transients.
A resume is available.
Last updated: April 7, 1998