P. Venkataraman graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in India in 1974. He worked for several years at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Helicopter Division. He continued graduate studies at Rice University and obtained his PhD in 1984.
Since then he has been at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the department of mechanical engineering, insisting his students use MATLAB, whatever the course maybe.
His current interests include optimization, Bezier curves, Carnatic music, and mathematics inspired digital art. You can learn more by visiting his site at:
people.rit.edu/pnveme