I'm Rajiv "Raj" Giridharagopal. I'm a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering department at Rice University. My research focuses on atomic-scale investigation of conducting polymer systems using the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), unless my advisor Kevin Kelly changes his mind. Our group made some minor news with the nanocar and the so-called "single pixel camera."

No, I am not involved in either project. Go me!

Use the links at the left for more information, if that floats your boat. You don't need to bother with the "contact" link, though. I only added that because the box looked empty with just three links. I'll save you the trouble and just say to email rajivg at rice dot egg mcmuffin edu, remove the egg mcmuffin part.

I also spent some small amount of time playing around with MATLAB and the card game "War." That stuff is found under "research," though it is actually not even remotely close to being research and is in fact an insult to research. Until I redo this website, that's where it'll be.

In the future, this will probably include such Web 2.0 delectables such as my del.icio.us bookmarks or Google Reader starred items or something. I don't know. I sort of use del.iciou.us, but I love Google Reader. I used to tag lots of things "toread" in del.iciou.us, but I ended up just having maybe 100 items that I never ended up reading!