BIO

Ram D. Sriram is currently leading the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he conducts research on standards for interoperability of computer-aided design systems.  He also spends a part of his time in the Information Technology Laboratory working on bioinformatics and health care informatics issues. 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. At MIT, Sriram initiated the MIT-DICE project, which was one of the pioneering projects in collaborative engineering and documented in the book entitled Distributed and Integrative Collaborative Engineering Design, Sarven Publishers, 2002.

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. He has consulted for several leading corporations all over the world. His client list (during his tenure at MIT) include Boeing, GE, NTT Data  ( Japan ), NASA, Xerox Corporation, United Technologies, IIC ( Spain ), etc.

Sriram has co-authored or authored over  200 papers, books, and reports in computer-aided engineering, including several books.   Sriram was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for AI in Engineering. In 1989, he was awarded a Presidential Young Investigators Award from the National Science Foundation, U.S.A.

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 B.Tech. from IIT, Madras , India , and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , USA .