Shankar M Krishnan
Professor & Founding Chair
Wentworth Institute of Technology
USA
Biography
Shankar M Krishnan has over thirty years of broad spectrum international professional experience in biomedical engineering education, research and development, medical product design, clinical engineering, and project management. He served in management positions in academia, medical devices industry, and hospitals. He has held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami, Singapore, and Boston. He is the founding Director of BME Department and endowed chair professor at WIT in Boston. At NTU in Singapore, he was founding Director of BME Research Center and founding Department and founding Head of Bioengineering Division. He worked in R&D at Coulter, hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for Healthcare megaprojects, and as Assistant Director at Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He has numerous publications and has given invited talks at several international conferences. During the past 11 years, he has significantly contributed to development of new activities of IFMBE worldwide and to the overall welfare of IFMBE. He keeps active memberships in IEEE EMBS, AAMI, BMES, and ASEE. He was selected to Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi Honor societies, and is a Fellow of AIMBE. He was a member of a team which received the CIMIT Kennedy Innovation Award.
Research Interest
Biomedical engineering education, research and development, medical product design, clinical engineering, and project management