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These are the personal pages of Ankit Srivastava. I have tried to make them reflect my own personality to some extent but since personality mutates with such fickleness, I am not sure if they do justice to it. From a life that is continually teaching me lessons in humility and arrogance, I have taken out a few immutable leaves upon which lie the wrinkled impressions of the outmoded fashion that is often the past.
The great Groucho Marx once said something to the effect that ‘I don’t think I’ve ever made it clear but I was born at quite a young age’. Even though memory fails me here but I’m inclined to believe that my case was similar. The place was Badhalganj which when spelled ‘Bad-haal-ganj’ has given me hours of solitary joy and vindication. A quarter century has elapsed since then, and it seems nothing more than a blink of an eye – a discontinuity, a mere theoretical curiosity which has no consequence of its own but lives only as a convenient reference with which to remember the blurry years.
I have recently got my Ph.D from the University of California San Diego in the general field of Structural Engineering with specific focus on wave propagation. My adviser at UCSD was Dr. Francesco Lanza di Scalea. I am now working as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Nemat Nasser‘s group. Further details on my current and future research are on my research page. My thoughts on all and sundry are on my blog.