Biography of Vijay Prabhakaran

Email:	vijay@talkelab.ucsd.edu
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Biography of Vijay Prabhakaran

Vijay was born on Aug 2 nd 1973 in Madras. He completed most of schooling in Kalpakkam, which is the township attached to the Madras Atomic Power Project and the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research. He graduated from the Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay in 1994, with a B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering . The Indian Institute of Technology has 11 on campus hostels and Vijay was in Hostel 4. Vijay is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Applied Mechanics at the University of California, San Diego and finished his Masters in March 1997. His current area of research is in the tribology of the head-disk interface. The research invloves friction and wear investigaion at the magnetic head-tape and head-disk interface. He likes running,going down to Blacks Beach,playing tennis and soccer.

Vijay has recently finished his PhD and will now be working with Read-Rite at San Jose.

Publications

Sookyung Kim; Yong-Hee Han; Heuigi Son; Young-Gil Kim; and others. "Characteristics of wear and contamination of video heads in consumer VCRs.", IEEE Trans. Mag., Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 4188-4190, 1994.
Sookyung Kim; Prabhakaran, V.; Talke, F.E." Investigation of head wear and contamination in helical scan tape systems." IEEE Trans on Magnetics, Sept. 1996, vol.32, (no.5, pt.1):3741-3
Vijay Prabhakaran; Soo Kyung Kim; F. E. Talke, "Tribology of the helical scan head tape interface". Wear,Vol 215,2,pp 91-97,1998 .

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