Prof. Kurian Polachan

Short Bio: Prof. Kurian Polachan is a hands-on systems engineer and a researcher with interests in body sensing, body communication and connected wearables. He currently works as Assistant Professor at IIIT-Bangalore. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in 2021-2022 in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, USA, working on ultra-low power biomedical wearable designs and human-body communication. He received Ph.D. in 2021 from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), working on tactile-CPS and time-sensitive networking and an MTech in 2014 from DESE (formerly CEDT), Indian Institute of Science in electronics design and technology. He has over 5 years of industry research experience with Cypress Semiconductors (now Infineon Technologies), developing capacitive touch sensing user-interface solutions. While in Academia and Industry, he has authored/co-authored several publications in selective venues (IEEE/ACM TON, ACM TOIT, IEEE TNSM, IEEE SECON, ACM/IEEE ICCPS, IFIP IM, IEEE COMSNETS, etc.), related to tactile-CPS and time-sensitive networking, and internal conferences (CITEC 2009, CITEC 2011), application notes~(AN66269, AN56007, AN2397), articles (EDN, EETimes), whitepaper and code examples related to capacitive touch sensing technologies. Towards serving the community, he has been a reviewer for IEEE ISCAS 2024, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TBioCAS, IEEE Access, Springer Nature, MDPI Networks, ISNCC-2022 WMN, and Govt of India's Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge. He has done several collaborative works in Academia and Industry (on-body wearable prototypes with Eli Lilly and Company USA, tactile-CPS designs with a research group at TU Delft Netherlands, developing novel touch-sensing solutions for electronic products with Whirlpool, NEC, Sharp, etc.). He currently serves as the member of the standardization committee on IoT and Digital Twin, Bureau of Indian Standards.