About Me 

I am a PhD student in the department of Mechanical Engineering at UAB. I also work in Enabling Technology Lab, UAB in the capacity of Research Assistant. My areas of interest related with work are in the areas of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid/Mesh generation and repair. Currently I am also looking for a summer internship starting around May 2009. For a detailed description of my academic/ professional activites you could visit my resume page. Feel free to contact me or send any comments or queries. 

• Industry: Academia / Research
• Occupation: Research Assistant
• Contact: amitesh_iitg [at] yahoo.com
  

Interests

Philosophy, Economics, Global Politics, Chess, Racquetball, Squash, movies, Reading, Rubik's Cube, East Coast Swing, Yoga

Favorite Movies

Fight Club, Good will hunting, Pulp fiction, Sling Blade, Shawshank Redemption, Almost Famous, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, The Pianist, A few good men, Matrix, BraveHeart, Enemy at the gates, I am Sam, Usual Suspect, Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy, Sleepy Hollow.

Favorite Books

Freakonomics, The Namesake, The Kite Runner, Life of Pi, Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, Surely You are joking Mr. Feynmann, Catch 22, Freedom at midnight, Grapes of Wrath, The quantum and the lotus, Kane and Abel, Godfather.

Few Quotes 

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." -Oscar Wilde

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein

"What is history but a fable agreed upon" - Napoleon De Bonaparte

"The Thinking cap is all set! Let's turn it on! Click. Bzrp. Did it work? I think so. I feel smarter already." - Calvin and Hobbes