TreasurerShankar M KrishnanDr Krishnan has held the position of Director of the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (BMERC) from its inception in 1996 at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, and the Director for B Eng in Bio-engineering Program at NTU. He earned his PhD degree from the University of Rhode Island (USA), having carried out the experimental phase of his research in cardiovascular systems at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi Honour Societies. He took the position of an Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of the Biomedical Instrumentation Program at the Southern Illinois University. He then moved on to become a Project Manager in Research and Development of medical instrumentation at Coulter Electronics in Miami and subsequently to be appointed as a Biomedical and Hospital Engineering Management Consultant for a mega-project management company in San Francisco. Dr Krishnan is presently serving as the Director of BMERC at NTU, managing several large–scale research grants. He is also the Co-Director of the Singapore-University of Washington Alliance in Bioengineering at NTU. Over the past ten years, he has been teaching in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and conducting research in Medical Instrumentation, Image Processing, Medical Robotics and Telemedicine, jointly with doctors at local hospitals. He has been a contributor to publications and presentations at a number of international conferences. He has also provided consultancy services for several companies in Singapore. He has been appointed to serve as a member of the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. In addition to having membership in IEEE-EMBS, AAMI, IHF, Dr Krishnan has been actively involved in the activities of the Biomedical Engineering Society of Singapore, an affiliate member Society of IFMBE) since 1993. In addition, he has held responsible positions within organising committees of over ten successful International Conferences. Recently, he chaired a working group for the formulation of a new multidisciplinary undergraduate program in Bioengineering at NTU and has been appointed as its Director. In excess of 20 years engineering and management experience in the Biomedical field, spanning across academia and the industry both in the US and in Singapore, coupled with his continued interest, has helped him to serve the Biomedical Engineering field in teaching, research and professional practice.
Director, Biomedical Engineering Research Centre
BMERC, Research Techno Plaza 6th Storey
Tel : +65 6790 6420, +65 6790 6421, +65 6790 4764
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