Ram Prasadh Narayanan

At Walton Institute, Dr. Ram Prasadh Narayanan is part of the MEPS team, working with Dr. Frances Cleary. He is involved with the research project for the Design & Development of a retrofittable e-Textile fabric solution embedded with wearable computing technology capabilities for enhanced electrical safety and alert notification. How work focuses on developing a solution that extends well beyond the current available wearable offerings that support the provision of PPE & electrical safety. Ram’s research interests include embedded solutions for medical devices, PPEs and implants.

Ram received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) and Master of Technology (M. Tech) specialising in Embedded Systems, from Anna University and Amrita University in 2010 and 2014, respectively. From January 2011 until May 2012, he worked as an Embedded Software Engineer, in a start-up firm specialising in finger-print and sensing technologies. From August 2014 to September 2015, he worked as a Research Intern, in another start-up specialising in wireless sensing products for agriculture.

From October 2015 until October 2019, Ram was awarded the four-year Kreitman Graduate Fellowship, towards his PhD work under the supervision of Prof. Shlomi Dolev, Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He completed his PhD in April 2021. Ram was a Post-doctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, supported by the Kreitman Post-Graduate fellowship and ABC Robotics grant. He was awarded the ERCIM Postdoctoral Fellowship from February 2022 to January 2024, with which I worked with Prof. Ilangko Balasingham at NTNU, Norway.