San Francisco State UniversitySchool of Engineering
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V. V. Krishnan, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Discipline: Control Systems
Office: SCI 100
Phone: (415) 338-7821
Fax: (415) 338-0525
Email: krishnan@sfsu.edu
Homepage: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~krishnan/
V. V. Krishnan

Education

  • B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, (1964)
  • M.Tech. in Machine Tool Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, (1966)
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, (1967)
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, (1972)
  • Thesis: Control of Human Distance Vision

Biography

Dr. V.V.Krishnan first joined the Engineering faculty of San Francisco State University as a part-time instructor in late 1969. He left in 1972 to spend a couple of years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the area of Bioengineering. But he missed the excitement of teaching and interacting with students, and decided to rejoin the engineering faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1977. He has been a Professor since 1982.

Dr. Krishnan teaches courses in the areas of Control Systems, Systems Modeling, Instrumentation, Computer Methods, and Applied Statistics. His research focuses mainly on the development of computer simulations and models for real systems, and he has published extensively in the field of Biological Systems Modeling. He is a member of ASME, IEEE, ASEE, and ISA.

Dr. Krishnan still derives great pleasure from his teaching and his interactions with students. He appreciates the diversity of the student body and has never had any second thoughts about his decision to come to San Francisco State University. He has extensive interest in fields outside engineering, and says that he particularly enjoys his role as an advisor to engineering majors.