Dr. Narayanan Ramakrishnan is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Robotics Engineering at the School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia. He is also the Director of Innovation and Enterprise for the School of Engineering and IT, and he leads the Micro and Nano Devices Group. His current research interests include sensors, semiconductor devices, MEMS, and wearable technology. To date he has received more than 16 external grants as Principle investigator (CI) from government and industry. Notably, he had successive four times winner of FRGS and three time recepient of PRGS grants.  He has received several awards, including the Asian Invention Excellence award for his compact mask aligner system. He was also awarded the Monash Australia Dean’s Award in 2021 for his innovation in remote FPGA labs for education, as well as multiple Pro Vice-Chancellor Awards for research, enterprise, graduate research supervision, and education. He holds multiple patents related to semiconductor fabrication tools and devices. Furthermore, he is the co-founder and director of his semiconductor-focused company, FirstChip Sdn. Bhd., a spin-out from Monash University and partnering company with Malaysia’s National Semiconductor IC Design Park.

Micro and Nano Devices research group leader in Monash Malaysia.  His research interest includes Electronic instrumentation, Semiconductor devices, Industrial electronics,  micro sensors, acoustic wave sensors, MEMS,  nanostructured sensing medium, UV LED lithography, and wearable technology.

• ECE3073 - Computer Systems
• ECE4094 - Project A
• ECE4095 - Project B
• ECE4808 - Organic Electronics and Micro Devices