M.Tech, Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 2006

B.Tech, Biomedical Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, 1999

Scientist in Charge, Division of Precision Fabrication ( From September 2024 - till date)

Engineer B to Engineer G, BMT Wing, SCTIMST (April 2001 till date)

Customer support Engineer, Philips Medical Systems India Ltd. (2000 - 2001)

Medical devices for cardiopulmonary support: Ventricular assist devices, Blood pumps, Oxygenators, hemoconcentrator

Evaluation of medical Devices, insilico and invitro evaluation

Computer aided design, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Biomedical instrumentation

Scale up production of medical devices, clean rooms.

Development and evaluation of medical devices . Precision Fabrication of Medical Devices, Quality management system, Medical Devices Regulatory mechanism

A VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE BLOODPUMP HAVING IMPELLER SUPPORTED WITH COMBINED PASSIVE MAGNETS AND HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING, Indian patent no. 513511 dated 21/02/2024

1. A Bloodpump, Indian Patent no. 229316

3. Reservoir for invitro evaluation of Cardiopulmonary devices, Indian Patent no. 348165

4. A spiral cross flow compact heat exchanger for blood to be provided with membrane oxygenators employed in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support, Indian Patent no. 394363

5. An improved system for vapor polishing of plastic components in a metallic vessel, Indian Patent no. 394822

6. A Suction-Retractor Device for Aortic Valve Replacement in Adult Cardiac Surgery, Indian Patent no. 413329

7. A Centrifugal Pump for Transferring Fluid at A Reduced Priming Volume Without Deterioration of Inherent Fluid Properties, Indian Patent no. 419263

8. High Sensitive Current Controlled Electromagnetic Blood Flow Meter Device,Indian Patent no. 440233

Chair IEEE-EMBS Kerala Chapter 2024, 2025 Secretary IEEE-EMBS Kerala Chapter 2022, 2023

Life member, Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (India)

Member, IEEE & IEEE-EMBS

Principal Investigator of 'National Center for Preclinical evaluation of Cardiovascular Devices' supported by ICMR Center for Advanced Research scheme.

Principal Investigator of 'Development of an Organ care system for Transplantation' ,supported by ICMR Adhoc scheme.

Co Principal Investigator of 'A suction retractor device for aortic valve replacement in adult cardiac surgery' supported by SCTIMST

Development of Centrifugal bloodpump for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary bypass

Design registration: A Device for The Isolation Of Platelet Rich Plasma And Other Blood Components

Design registration: A Suction Retractor Device for Aortic Valve Replacement In Adult Cardiac Surgery

Design registration: Ventricular Assist Device with Compact Integrated Controller And Battery Pack

Nodal Officer, Combination Devices Block

Coordinator for starting M.Tech Biomedical Engineering programme, 1st batch joined in 2024.

Convenor of committee for establishing laboratories in MS Valiathan Medical Devices Engineering block.

Mr. D.S Nagesh, Scientist G

Sarath S Nair, Engineer-D

Ramesh Babu V, Engineer G

Amrutha C, Scientist C

Sreedevi.V, Technical Assistant (Instrumets)-A

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Sarath S Nair, Vinodkumar V, V Sreedevi, and Nagesh DS. "Design of Electromagnetic Probe Having Reduced Base Line Drift for Blood Flow Measurement." IETE Journal of Research, , Volume 61, Issue 4, 2015, pp329-340

Sarath S Nair, Vinodkumar V, Sreedevi V, and D S Nagesh. " Rotating Permanent magnet excitation for bloodflow measurement." Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, November 2015, Volume 53, Issue 11, pp 1187-1199

Sai Nikhil Subraveti, V. Vinod Kumar, Harish Pothukuchi, P.S.T. Sai, B.S.V. Patnaik, "Numerical investigation of membrane oxygenation using sub-channel analysis", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 28 Issue: 12, pp.2942-2959, https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-10-2017-0431

Vinodkumar.V, , Ranjith G, D.S.Nagesh, Bhuvaneshwar.G.S, Geometry Optimisation of Chitra Centrifugal BloodPump for Extracorporeal Circulation using CFD Studies, 17th Congress of International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps, Singapore, 1-3 October 2009

Vinodkumar.V, Ranjith G, D.S.Nagesh, `CFD Studies with Chitra Centrifugal BloodPump for Extracorporeal Circulation - Preliminary Results'' , ANSYS India Conference, Bangalore, 6th and 7th November 2008