Sunil Saigal is a distinguished professor and a former dean of the Newark College of Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Saigal's research has been focused on interactions with the industry and these contributions have included:
- development of boundary element shape optimization in collaboration with United Technologies
- formulations for powder packing in collaboration with Alcoa and DuPont
- development of computational models for nonlinear soil behaviour in collaboration with ANSYS
- cohesive element formulations for post crack behaviour of glass—polymer composites in collaboration with DuPont
- explicit algorithms for high velocity impact in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center
- computational simulations of acetabular hip component to assist with total hip replacement surgery in a collaboration with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- development of medial surface algorithms in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.[1]
