Dr. Niranjan U. C. is Director of Research and Training at MDN. He brings more than 18 years of experience and passion in signal-processing. Well known as a teacher and senior researcher, his students have spread far and wide. He was a visiting researcher at Parama Tech Biomonitoring Institute, Fukuoka, Japan in 1994 and 1996. He has been teaching at various levels at the Manipal Institute of Technology since 1986, and is currently a registered PhD advisor at the Manipal University. He was guest faculty at Mangalore University, NMAMIT Nitte, and Karmic Manipal.
 
    Dr. Niranjan is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the past national secretary of the Biomedical Engineering Society of India. He has served on the technical program committees of a number of conferences and workshops including IEEE-EMBS Annual Conference, 1998, Hongkong, National Conference on Biomedical Engineering, 2001, Bangalore and National Conference on Knowledge Based Frontier Technologies, 2007, Manipal. He has published over 40 Journal and conference papers. He was winner of the Whitaker Foundation student paper competition in IEEE-EMBS Conference, Paris 1992 and the Young Investigator Award, ICSE Conference, Arizona 1996.
 
    Dr. Niranjan holds a PhD in Electrical Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; M. Tech from KREC Surathkal and Bachelors in Electronics and Communication from the Gogte Institute of Technology Belgaum. A multifaceted personality, he also speaks German and Japanese, translates Vachanas of Basavanna, manages the Veera Shaiva Jangama Mutt and the Chitrakala Mandira Art School in Udupi. He can be reached by Email at niranjan at manipal dot net.