Biography

Swaminathan Rajaraman received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) respectively. Prof. Rajaraman is a tenured Professor and a successful entrepreneur. He is currently Associate Professor in the NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida, USA) with additional appointments in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Sciences. Prior to his academic appointment, he has worked in the MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) industry with Analog Devices (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) and CardioMEMS (now Abbott Labs, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and co-founded Axion BioSystems Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), a world-leader in high-throughput Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs) and MEA systems during and after his Ph.D. work. Axion was successfully acquired by the Swedish Private Equity Firm, Summa Equity in 2021. Axion spun out BioCircuit Technologies (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) in 2019 whose product NerveTape® is FDA-approved for sutureless nerve repair. Prof. Rajaraman has also co-founded Primordia BioSystems (Costa Mesa, California, USA) and serves on the Advisory Board of World Precision Instruments (Sarasota, Florida, USA).

His current research interests include in vitro and in vivo Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs), hybrid micro/nanofabrication, micro/nanofabrication on novel, biological substrates, microneedles, agricultural microsystems, microfluidic devices, multimodal cell-based nanosensors, 3D printing, embedded biosystems, and implantable MEMS devices. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the NSF I/UCRC, MIST Center at UCF. He has published more than 95 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, holds close to 35 patents/applications, developed several MEA products that are in volume production and has mentored close to 65 graduate students, undergraduate students, engineers, and post-doctoral fellows. Dr. Rajaraman has served/serves on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Sensors, Hilton Head MEMS Workshop, IEEE Transducers, and IEEE MEMS. He was the Program Chair for Hilton Head MEMS Workshop in 2024 and is the General Chair for the Hilton Head MEMS Workshop in 2026. He additionally serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE JMEMS.