Nikhil Valsan Kulangareth Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As a Medical Research and Development Scientist at Klick Labs, I conduct biomedical engineering research with the goal of building new devices. I design experiments and analyze and interpret the resulting data. Partnering with other scientists, engineers, and physicians, I drive the development of treatment technologies and methods. I also administer balanced budgets and adhere to timelines for the delivery of projects.My achievements in this position include:o Initiating research in detecting hypertension in adult patients using their voice as an input.o Training, testing, and implementing machine learning algorithms and methods to classify the hypertension for any given voice samples.o Accelerating the investigations on electrical impedance tomography methods for the non-invasive detection of Crohn’s disease in children.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As a Teaching Assistant at Toronto Metropolitan University, I delivered lectures and tutorials with a diverse student body and accommodated the learning styles and needs of each student. I researched electrical defibrillation, computational cardiac modeling, and electrophysiology. Lecturing both online and in-person, I taught courses involving control systems, electric circuit analysis, and electric networks. I also supervised and trained junior teaching assistants and organized college and departmental activities. I provided administrative and functional support for departmental committees and senior faculty members. My accomplishments in this position included:o Reducing defibrillation shock magnitudes by 53% through a novel strategy for medical device development, assisting manufacturing processes of defibrillators using COMSOL.o Discovering the direction dependency of the shock vector for terminating and modulating cardiac rotors.o Introducing a novel defibrillation strategy from the existing methods with increased survival rates.o Developing customized computational cardiac models that can simulate cardiac activities inside the heart.o Simulating electrophysiological activities of rotor formation similar to real life scenario during cardiac arrhythmia.

India

As an Assistant Professor at Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, I directed the research and development team working on new concepts and designed and drafted prototypes for robotic projects. I taught undergraduate and graduate workshops and trained both students and faculty members to use MATLAB and Arduino. I guided different undergraduate and graduate students for their project and dissertation and was also involved in modeling of electrical machines and control systems. Some of my achievements in this position included: • Crafting gesture-controlled wheelchairs for the physically disabled.• Designing a novel topology multilevel inverter.• Coordinating mobile controls for irrigation systems used in agriculture and automating drip irrigation in rural areas.

Kannur, Kerala, India

As the Chapter Advisor, I partnered with the technology community to expand professional networks and connect with students. I coordinated conferences for over 500 attendees in the United States, India, and Canada. I also wrote and secured grants for IEEE IAS student research and provided support to students traveling internationally for education and research. I liaised with local sections of IEEE to support students and recruited and retained student members. I mentored students and provided career guidance.My achievements in this position included:o Supervising 14 students between 2014 and 2016 who secured travel grants to the United States and Canada.

Payyannur, Kerala, India

As an Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering and Technology, I created and updated course materials, including exams, lectures, and assignments. I also advised students on their academics and careers. Further, I partnered with tech community and participated in community outreach activities.

Payyannur, Kerala, India

As a lecturer at SNGCET, I coordinated the development and review of curriculum and academic policies. I taught and guided students utilizing innovative instruction methods, mentored and coached junior faculty through their professional development. I have also served on departmental committees and held leadership roles.