Research Interest

Dr. Impelluso received Ph.D. from UCSD in the area of computational mechanics; his dissertation involved the numerical modeling of dispersive wave phenomena in laminated and fibrous composites. He worked for one year in the software industry where he wrote and maintained seismic data acquisition and analysis software for the USGS. As a post-doc and research scientist at UCSD he developed edge detection software using wavelet theory (which he also uses to pre-condition FE stiffness matrices) and used the finite element method (beams, 2D, 3D, large deformation) to create physics based virtual environments. As a faculty member at SDSU his research interests encompass bone modeling, surgical simulations and the technology of physics based virtual reality.

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