RAM SRIRAM
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Biomaterials and Green Manufacturing Breakout
 Dr. Sriram leads the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST), where he conducts research on standards for interoperability of computer-aided design systems. Sriram has extensive experience in developing knowledge- based expert systems, natural language interfaces, object-oriented software development, life-cycle product and process models, geometrical modelers, and object-oriented databases for industrial applications.
Prior to joining NIST he was on the engineering faculty (1986-1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory. He also consulted for leading corporations all over the world, including Boeing, GE, NTT Data (Japan), Xerox and United Technologies, IIC (Spain). Sriram has co-authored or authored over 200 papers, books, and reports in computer-aided engineering. In 1989, he was awarded a Presidential Young Investigators Award from the National Science Foundation. Sriram is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a life-time member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Sriram has a bachelor's degree from IIT, Madras , India . He earned his master's and doctorate degrees at Carnegie Mellon University |
