• Build a qualitative and quantitative understanding of today's health care needs, trends and aspirations for future developments in the rural area of Karnataka.
• Support the design of value propositions that meet the rural health care needs through involvement and deliverables from MAHE.
• Deliver road maps that describe the expected evolution of health care demand in Karnataka, and the desired product & service solutions from industry e.g. Philips.
• About 23 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Electronics Design & Information Science.
• Coordinator of the MS Medical Software of Manipal University. (This is a unique postgraduate program with health care industries.)
• Coordinator of the Manipal Center for Information Science (MCIS) - Karnataka Microelectronic Design Center (Karmic) in the area of semiconductor chip design.
• Coordinator Corporate training program in the area of Information Science for industries such as Intel, Honeywell Technologies, Infenion Technologies, GE - IBC.

• Computer Interfacing
• Computer Networks
• Medical Imaging
• Neural Networks
• VLSI design techniques
• Computer Architecture

• "An Alternative Prony Model Representation of Electrocardiograms", in Proc. Analog Devices SHARC International Conference on DSP, SHARC 2001, Boston, MA, Sep.10-11
• "A complete chip design experience at MAHE" in Proc IEEE VLSI Design and Test Workshops, Bangalore, India, Aug. 16-18, 2001
• "An Interactive Tool for Wound Image Analysis" - National Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Visakhapatnam, India, December 23- 24, 2004.

• Guided various projects at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate level.
• Conducted courses in the areas of Microprocessors, Linux, and VHDL for faculty of neighboring Engg colleges.
• Guide for the student's paper on 'Noise cancellation using DSP Processor" which was accepted by Texas Instruments paper presentation context in 1994.

Date of Birth: August 5, 1959