Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman,
Professor
801 Ferst Drive|
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Textile & Fiber Engineering
Atlanta, GA 30332-0295
Phone: 404-894-2490
FAX: 404-894-8780
Last Updated: Oct. 16, 2000
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman is a Professor of Textile Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his research students have made significant contributions in the following areas: (i) Enterprise Architecture and Modeling Methodologies for Information Systems; (ii) Engineering Design of Intelligent Textile Structures; (iii) Design and Development of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) for textiles and apparel; and (iv) Multimedia Educational Systems. Most recently, his group's research has resulted in the realization of the world's first "Wearable Motherboard™ or Smart Shirt (http://vishwa.tfe.gatech.edu/gtwm/gtwm.html). He received his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University, in 1984, and the M.Tech and B.Tech degrees from the University of Madras, India, in 1978 and 1976, respectively. He was involved in the design and development of TK!Solver, the first equation-solving program from Software Arts, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Dr. Jayaraman worked as a Product Manager at Software Arts, Inc., and at Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, MA, before joining Georgia Tech in fall 1985. Professor Jayaraman is a recipient of the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF for his research in the area of computer-aided manufacturing and enterprise architecture. In September 1994, he was elected a Fellow of the Textile Institute, (UK). In April 1997, he received the Georgia Outstanding Manufacturing Researcher of the Year Award from Georgians for Manufacturing. His publications include a textbook on computer-aided problem solving published by McGraw-Hill in 1991. Dr. Jayaraman is Technical Editor, Information Technology, for America's Textiles International, a leading textile trade publication. In May 2000, he was named a Deputy Editor for the Journal of the Textile Institute (UK), the leading refereed publication in the field.