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S. Bharath Ram is currently a research scholar in the Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute
of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He earned a BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from College
of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India. His current research interests include geometric modeling,
differential and computational geometry.
M. Ramanathan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Design, Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras. He earned a B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Thiagarajar
college of Engineering, Madurai, India. He received his M. Sc. (Engg.) and Ph.D. from the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He did his post-doctoral
research at Technion, Haifa, Israel and then at Purdue university, USA. His current research interests include
geometric modeling, computational geometry, shape and image search, mesh model analysis, and BioCAD.
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