2019

• Ph D in Robotics from National Institute of Technology

2010

• Masters in Mechatronics Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University 

2007

• Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai

2019 - 2022

    -     Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eranad Knowledge City   

          Technical Campus, Manjeri (2021 - 2022)

    -     Associate professor at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady (2020 - 2021)

    -     Ad hoc Faculty at National Institute of Technology, Calicut (2019)

2007 - 2012

    -    Assistant Professor at MES college of Engineering Kuttippuram

    -    Assistant Professor,  Jyothi Engineering College Cheruthuruthy, Thrissur 

    -    Jindal Steels Ltd., Bellary, Karnataka

2021

• Akhil, V. M., Jobin, V., Ashmi, M., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2021). Gait Variability and IEMG Variation in Gastrocnemius and Medial Hamstring Muscles on Inclined Even and Uneven Planes. IRBM. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1959031821000270)
• Akhil, V. M., Varghese, J., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2021). Design and Development of 3-DoF Mechanism for the Exoskeleton Hip Joint. In Advances in Systems Engineering (pp. 199-211). Springer, Singapore. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-8025-3_20

2019

• Akhil, V. M., Varghese, J., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2019). Investigation of gait cycle deviation over surface irregularities utilizing muscle activities. Bio-medical materials and engineering, 30(3), 267-277. (https://content.iospress.com/articles/bio-medical-materials-and-engineering/bme191050)

2018

• Varghese, J., Akhil, V. M., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2018). Effect of body mass index and chair height on the torque developed at the knee joint during back-to-sit and sit-to-stand movements. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 14(1-2), 131-143. (https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJBRA.2018.089234)

2017

• Varghese, J., Akhil, V. M., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2017). A rotary pneumatic actuator for the actuation of the exoskeleton knee joint. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 7(4), 222-230. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209503491730082X)

2019

• Akhil, V. M., Varghese, J., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2019, February). Effect of VMD decomposition of soleus muscle EMG in SVM classification. In 2019 Second International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8882900)

2017

• Akhil, V. M., Varghese, J., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2017, February). Torque required at the knee joint of a robotic assistive device for its thigh to follow the parabolic trajectory generated by its hip joint during sit-to-stand posture. In 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Media Technology (ICEEIMT) (pp. 7-10). IEEE. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8116815)

2016

• Varghese, J., Akhil, V. M., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2016, December). Determination of optimum energy level trajectory during swing phase for exoskeleton knee joint. In 2016 International Conference on Robotics: Current Trends and Future Challenges (RCTFC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7893416)
• Akhil, V. M., Varghese, J., Rajendrakumar, P. K., & Sivanandan, K. S. (2016, December). Artificial neural network based study of torque at knee during sit to stand and back to sit movements. In 2016 International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT) (pp. 720-724). IEEE. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7988046)

2015

• Varghese, J., Sivanandan, K. S., & Rajendrakumar, P. K. (2015, February). Theoretical validation of pneumatically actuated below-hip orthosis for partially paralysed subjects. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7091554)