is an electrical engineer who is currently a PhD student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research interests lie in the fields of haptic technologies, perception, and human-computer interaction . He is working as a graduate student researcher in the RE Touch Lab under the supervision of Dr. Yon Visell. (PhD degree expected 2021)
Bharat has worked on a wide range of challenging problems in the varied areas of haptic, audio and image processing, multi-sensory integration, actuator development and characterization, nanoparticle system design, computer architectures, and electronics design. At UCSB, he is currently working on designing haptic devices and technologies which can enable more efficient and evocative interactions in Virtual and Augmented Reality implementations. He is also working to reveal some of the intricacies and limitations of perception in order to shed light on human factors in the design of human-interfaced technologies.
He has been awarded a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Haptics journal (2020), and a Best Technical Demonstration award at IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019, and his research papers have been nominated for Best Paper Awards at multiple conferences. He was a recipient of the UCSB PhD Dissertation Fellowship in 2021, and the MITACS Globalink scholarship in 2014.
Bharat received his Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCSB in 2016, with a major in Signal Processing and a minor in Communications. He received his Bachelors of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2015.