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Dinakar Sagapuram is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he is also the Mike & Sugar Barnes Faculty Fellow. He has a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Purdue University, awarded in 2013. His research interests include advanced structural materials, processing, and manufacturing tribology, focusing on large-strain plasticity, plastic flow instabilities, and localization failure mechanisms in the application of cutting metal deformation processes. His work utilizes analytical and computational models along with high-speed imaging and in-situ experimental tools to understand the mechanisms governing material deformation across various length scales. Over the years, he has earned several accolades, including being the Indiana state winner and national runner-up in the Department of Energy Clean Energy Trust Challenge business plan competition in 2012, as well as receiving the TMS Light Metals Division Magnesium Technology Award for best student paper in the same year.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.