Purnendu is a designer, trained as a physicist. He combines his love for design, physics听and computers to develop new fabrication techniques for functional materials. He is a PhD student at the interdisciplinary ATLAS Institute advised by Carson Bruns听and Greg Whiting. He holds an Integrated Master's degree in physics (with specialization in material science) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. Earlier, he co-founded a nanotechnology company in India Log 9 Materials, (which focuses on manufacturing and developing commercial applications around Graphene) and a multidisciplinary design studio at IIT Roorkee. His work portfolio includes research at various institutions worldwide, including the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany, and Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.
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Publications
Purnendu, Jess Hartcher鈥慜鈥橞rien, Vatsal Mehta, Nicholas Colonnese, Aakar Gupta,听Carson Bruns, Priyanshu Agarwal. 2023. "". 听In:听Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics Conference听(Delft, Netherlands, July 10鈥�13, 2023)
Purnendu, Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mirela Alistar, Mark D Gross, Carson Bruns, and Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces. Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280鈥�1290. DOI: (June 28-July 2,听2021鈥�Virtual Event).
Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger,听Mark D. Gross,听Carson Bruns听and听Daniel Leithinger. 2021.听Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. (to appear) In听Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021).听(Yokohama, Japan鈥揗ay 8-13, 2021). .
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