CORE FACULTY

Education
• Post Doc – JSPS Fellow, 2002-2003, Toyohashi, Japan.
• Post Doc – INSA Fellow, 2000, Delft and Twente, Netherlands.
• Ph. D. Instrumentation, 1994, IISc, Bangalore.
• PG Diploma, 1984, CEDT, IISc, Bangalore.
• BE – EE, 1982, BMSCE, Bangalore.
• DEE, 1970, KPT, Mangalore.

Experience
• Visiting Professor, CeNSE, IISc, Bangalore (August 2011 – Present).
• Director, Launch Vehicle Programme Office, ISRO HQ, Bangalore (2010-11).
• Deputy Director, Semi-conductor Laboratory, Department of Space, SAS Nagar, Chandigarh (2008-11).
• Group Director, Transducer Development and Production Group, LPSC, ISRO, Bangalore (till 2010).
• Divisional Head, Advanced Transducers Development Division, LPSC, ISRO, Bangalore.
• Project Manager, High Output Transducers for M/s Hughes Space and Communication Co., USA (through ISRO) (1996 – 2000).

Research Interests
• MEMS Packaging
• Pressure Transducers – Conventional and Advanced
• Graphene/RGO/GO based Temperature Sensors
• System Integration, Testing, Calibration etc. Research Area MEMS/ NEMS, MEMS and NEMS sensors

Patents
Through ISRO:
• Patent No.204437: “0 – 400 psia pressure transducer”
(1997, renewed on 6.9.2007).

• Patent No.742/MAS/99: “Ultrasonic Liquid Level Sensor”.

• Patent No.IPA0108: “Cryogenic Depletion Sensor”.

• Patent under submission: “Polyphase motor based on shape memory alloy”.

Conference and Seminars
• “Oxide backing layer for thin film strain gauges”, K.Rajanna, M.M.Nayak and S.Mohan, Presented at the IVS National symposium 1988 on Vacuum Science and Technology held during 19 21, December 1988 at IIT, Bombay.

• “Effect of Post deposition heat treatment on the performance of a thin film Pressure transducer”, K.Rajanna, M.M.Nayak and S.Mohan, Presented at the 14th National Symposium on Instrumentation NSI 14 held during 3 6, October 1989.

• “Sputtered platinum thin film strain gauges on anodized diaphragm for pressure measurement applications”, M.M.Nayak, K.Rajanna, R.Krishnamurthy and S.Mohan, Presented at the IVS (Indian Vacuum Society) Symposium held during October 1993 at NPL, Delhi.

• “Super Invar as strain gauge material”, M.M.Nayak, K.Rajanna, S.Mohan N.Gunasekaran and A.E.Muthunayagam, 5th MRSI ( Materials Research Society of India) AGM held during February 1994 at DMRL, Hyderabad.

• “Long term stability studies on uncompensated thin film pressure transducers”, M.M.Nayak, K.Rajanna, S.Mohan, N.Gunasekaran and A.E.Muthunayagam, Presented at the Instrument Society of India Symposium (NSI 18) held during Jan. 1994 at S.V.University, Tirupathi.