N N Sharma
received his B.E. degree from the Regional
Engineering College, Srinagar, India, in 1990, the
M.E. degree from the Birla Institute of Technology
and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, in 1998, both in
Mechanical engineering, and Ph.D. degree from the
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
Pilani, India, in 2004. His Ph.D. thesis concerns
the broad area of nanodynamics. Since 1998, he has
been a member of the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering, BITS. He is currently involved with
various aspects of nanotechnology, and MEMS among
which nanoactuators and microactuators are foremost.
His research interests also include design and
control of robotic manipulators. He is an active
member of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent
Systems, BITS. He is a reviewer of IEEE Transactions
on Systems, Man and Cybernetics papers.