Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, IIT Madras
Dr. M. Manivannan is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at IIT Madras, Department of Applied Mechanics. He was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Harvard Medical School, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland. He was also a visiting faculty at Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.
In 2005, Dr. Manivannan established India's first Touchlab (Haptics Lab) at IIT Madras. In 2021, he founded the Experiential Technology Innovation Centre (XTIC), India's premier multidisciplinary research center for VR/AR/MR and Haptics, and CAVE (Consortium for VR/AR/MR Engineering), India's first industrial consortium for XR with over 270 startups and industries.
Experiential Technology Innovation Centre at IIT Madras - India's first dedicated research hub for VR/AR/MR and Haptics, also as IoE Research Center on VR and Haptics
India Consortium for VR/AR/MR Engineering - connecting 270+ startups and industries in the XR ecosystem
Associate Editor for Medicine & Biological Engineering & Computing (Springer), Frontiers in Virtual Reality, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI