The Ohio State University

Assistant Professor


B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2000
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2006
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University 2006-2009; Lecturer 2007

Room E340
201 W. 19th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

614-688-4671

Email: srinivasan.88

Research

Biomechanics.  Mechanics and Control of human and animal locomotion.  Muscle Mechanics.  Optimality principles in biology.  Miscellaneus mechanics and dynamics issues, friction, etc.

Selected Publications

Please see my personal lab webpage or google scholar for preprints and other details.

M. Srinivasan and A. Ruina. Computer optimization of a minimal biped model discovers walking and running. Nature, 439, 72-75, 2006.

M. Srinivasan and A. Ruina. Rocking and rolling: A can that appears to rock might actually roll.  Physical Review E, 78, 066609, 2008.

M. Srinivasan and A. Ruina. Idealized walking and running gaits minimize work.  Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 463, 2429-2446, 2007.

M. Srinivasan. Optimal speeds for walking and running, and walking on a moving walkway. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Nonlinear Science (Focus Issue: Bipedal Locomotion -- from Robots to Humans), 19, 026112, 2009.

A. Ruina, J.E.A. Bertram and M. Srinivasan. A collisional model of the energetic cost of support work qualitatively explains leg sequencing in walking and galloping, pseudo-elastic leg behavior in running and the walk-to-run transition. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 237, 170-192, 2005.

M. Srinivasan and P. Holmes. How well can spring-mass-like telescoping leg models fit multi-pedal sagittal-plane locomotion data? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 255, 1-7, 2008.

M. Srinivasan. Chaos in a soda can: Non-periodic rocking of upright cylinders with sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Mechanics Research Communications, 36, 722-727, 2009.