Dr. Chandrasegaran, R.S.K.

Senthil is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. His research focuses on the integration of computer support tools to aid collaboration in early design, and the use of visualisation and visual analytics techniques to understand how designers work together.

At the IDE faculty, Senthil is a part of the Designing Intelligence Lab (DI_Lab), where he is interested in using visualisation techniques to examine design discussions and help develop models that can be used to train non-human agents that can in turn participate in or influence design processes.

Academic Background

Senthil received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, after which he worked as a postdoc, first at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland and then in the Visualization and Interface Design Innovation (VIDI) Lab at the University of California, Davis. In a past life before academia, Senthil also worked as a design engineer and consultant in the automotive and heavy engineering sectors in India.

Education

2009 ─ 2016
Ph.D., School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
West Lafayette, USA
1996 ─ 2000
B.E., Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology)
Tiruchirappalli, India

Experience

2017 – 2020
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, USA
2016 – 2017
Postdoctoral Scholar, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
2009 – 2015
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
2004 – 2009
Structural Analysis & Design Automation Engineer, Alcyon Engineering, Pune, India
2000 – 2004
Design Engineer, Tata AutoComp Systems, Pune, India

Lectures and/or coaches students on:

Data Visualisation (as part of ID4370 SPD Media)
Design Theory and Methodology (ID4010)
Exploring Design Intelligence (ID5138)

Specialisation(s):

Human-Computer Interaction
Information Visualisation
Design Theory
Design Methods