Purnendu
PhD, Creative Technology and Design 鈥�23
ATLAS Institute
purnendu@colorado.edu

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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THING Lab Alum

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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In the news

Fingertip haptics prototype
ATLAS PhD Student Purnendu Presents at World Haptics Conference

Sept. 7, 2023

Purnendu presented research on wearable electrohydraulic fingertip interfaces at the IEEE World Haptics Conference in Delft, Netherlands.

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Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Carson Bruns win graduate school awards for outstanding mentorship

May 4, 2022

Praised by their graduate students for their scientific competence, work ethic, creativity and compassion, two ATLAS professors received Outstanding Faculty Mentor awards from CU Boulder鈥檚 Graduate School on May 3, an honor bestowed this year on only 18 faculty members campus-wide.

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Touching Virtual Reality

Feb. 9, 2022

Normally virtual surfaces cannot be felt because they aren't there. But at Reality Labs Research at Meta, (previously known as Facebook), ATLAS PhD Student Purnendu is researching soft, wearable devices鈥搒uch as wristbands, rings or gloves 鈥搕hat could enable tactile sensations in virtual/augmented reality environments.

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Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation

Jan. 31, 2022

SIGGRAPH sat down with Purnendu, a PhD student in the ATLAS Institute and a researcher at Meta Reality Labs, to talk about his team鈥檚 SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs project, 鈥淓lectriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators.鈥� The team's actuator technology strives to augment animation within physical books.