Sanjay Sarma
MIT professor and learning author
Sanjay Sarma is an MIT mechanical engineering professor who has led the university's Open Learning work. He wrote Grasp with Luke Yoquinto.
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About Sanjay Sarma
Sanjay Sarma is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT who has led its Open Learning efforts. His research has spanned energy, transportation, computational geometry and computer-aided design, and he helped pioneer RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology. He studied at IIT Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) as an undergraduate, then earned advanced degrees at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California, Berkeley. In Grasp, written with Luke Yoquinto, he asks how people learn and how the science of learning could change education.