{"id":25,"date":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2014-10-27T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:02:41","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1998 Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Thesis: &#8220;The Natural Element Method in Solid Mechanics.&#8221; Thesis Committee: Brian Moran, Ted Belytschko, and Vladimir Volpert<\/li>\n<li>1992 M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science &amp; Technology, Thesis: &#8220;Finite Element Analysis of Mixed Mode Fracture and Failure in Composite Iosipescu Specimens.&#8221; Advisor: Maciej Kumosa.<\/li>\n<li>1989 B. Tech., Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Senior Project: &#8220;A Microprocessor-Based Temperature Controller for an Electrical Resistance Furnace.&#8221; Advisor: Nirdosh Khosla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Academic Appointments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>07\/2010-present: Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>01\/2011-08\/2011: Visiting Professor, PULSE Institute, Photon Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>07\/2007-06\/2010: Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>09\/2007-12\/2007: Visiting Associate Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University<\/li>\n<li>07\/2000-06\/2007: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>07\/2000-12\/2000: Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University<\/li>\n<li>01\/1999-06\/2000: Post-Doc, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University<\/li>\n<li>01\/1994-06\/1998: Research Assistant, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University<\/li>\n<li>09\/1990-10\/1992: Research Assistant, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education 1998 Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Thesis: &#8220;The Natural Element Method in Solid Mechanics.&#8221; Thesis Committee: Brian Moran, Ted Belytschko, and Vladimir Volpert 1992 M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science &amp; Technology, Thesis: &#8220;Finite Element Analysis of Mixed Mode Fracture and Failure in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/biography\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-twocolumns-left.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sukumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}