Dr. M. Manivannan
Assistant Professor
Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
India
Biography
.M.Manivannan is a professor of Biomedical Engineering in IIT Madras, Department of Applied Mechanics. He received post-doctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. He was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston, and a visiting faculty in the Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore. Before MIT and Harvard, he received another post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Maryland. Before joining IIT Madras in Jun 2005, he was serving as a chief software architect of Yantric Inc., a spin-off company of MIT Touchlab,
Research Interest
Needs of Vision Impaired, Hearing Impaired, and Touch Impaired. Medical Simulations with Haptics Feedback. Applications of Haptics in Computer Games. Science of Touch in Indian Medicine.
Publications
-
Biswas, A.; Manivannan, M.; Srinivasan, M.A., "Multiscale Layered Biomechanical Model of the Pacinian Corpuscle," Haptics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.8, no.1, pp.31,42, Jan.-March 1 2015 doi: 10.1109/TOH.2014.2369416
