Dr. HARI KRISHNA SALILA VIJAYALAL MOHAN

Passionate Technical Lead cum interdisciplinary R&D scientist providing accelerated sensing solution development, integration and delivery for industrial needs through meticulous planning, innovative thinking and active customer engagement. Specific fields of interest include non-destructive testing, sensors and IoT. Strictly adheres to both client-provided technical requirements and internal business goals. Balances project prioritization to fulfill both contractual obligations and internal revenue requirements. Provides foresight and management designed to grow satisfied customer bases and revenue figures.

• Best paper award at 2021 IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference (IEEE IEACon 2022), Nov, 2022
• Awarded 3rd prize for student mentored project at ASEAN Student Science Project Competition 2022
• Best paper award at 2021 IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference (IEEE IEACon 2021), Nov, 2021
• Awarded the National Research Foundation Competitive Research Programme (NRF-CRP) grant in 2018 as lead scientist @NUS- “A high-throughput microfluidic-based biomanufacturing platform (MBP) for Synthetic Biology” (S$ 1M for 5 years)
• Awarded NUS Technology acceleration programme (TAP 2018) grant as Co-PI -“Fast seal and package integrity testing” (S$250,000 for 2 years)
• Awarded TOTE Social Innovation Fund (SIF 2016) as PI @ TP-“Design of Human Breath Analysis System for monitoring type-2 diabetes” (S$150,000 for 2 years)
• Invited speaker & session chair at IEEE 5th International Nanoelectronics Conference (IEEE INEC), Singapore 2013

• Networking and Relationship-building (The British Council)
• Strategic Technology and Operation Roadmap (STORM-LITE)

• Residential status-SINGAPOREAN PERMANENT RESIDENT (SPR)
• REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

Patents

1. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan, Aaron Voon Yew Thean, Suryakanta Nayak, Method and system for integrity testing of sachets , US20210372961, 2018.

2. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan, Aaron Voon Yew Thean, Suryakanta Nayak, Method and system for seal integrity testing of cup packages for food and beverage applications , US Patent App. WO2020/027727, 2019

3. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan, Aaron Voon Yew Thean, Suryakanta Nayak, Li Yida, Method and system for seal integrity testing of blister packages for pharmaceutical applications , WO2020/046207, 2019

4. Jieming Pan, Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan, Li Yida, Chen Khong Tham, Aaron Voon Yew Thean, Suryakanta Nayak, Li Yida, method and system for integrity testing of packages , WO2021/029825, 2020

Journals

1. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Malcom, A.A, A Novel Low-cost Capacitance-based Approach for Non-destructive Evaluation of Powder Quality for Food Processing Industries , Measurement: Sensors, 2022, 22, 100395

2. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Toh, C.H, Malcom, A.A, A novel low-cost contactless capacitive evaluation approach for capping integrity assessment of food and beverage containers , Sensors and Actuators Reports, 2022, 4,100088

3. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Malcom, A.A, Cheng F, Low-cost contactless monitoring of aseptic package integrity and content quality using capacitance , Food Packaging and Shelf Life, 2020, 26,100598.

4. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K, CW Kit, Y Li, S Nayak, CL Poh, AVY Thean A highly sensitive graphene oxide based label-free capacitive aptasensor for vanillin detection , Materials & Design, 2020, 186.

5. Tu. M.; Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; Alahakoon. T.; Lim W.T. L.; Moochhala, S.; Yildiz, U.H.; Alagappan P.; Liedberg, B.; Tuning pendant groups of polythiophene on carbon nanotubes for vapour classification, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017, 247, 916-922.

6. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K Hansen Varghese, R, Jinglei Y, Wong C.H, Zheng, L., Epigallocatechin gallate decorated carbon nanotube chemiresistors for ultrasensitive glucose detection, Organic Electronics 2016, 28, 210-216.

7. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; An, J.; Liao, K.; Wong C.H, Zheng, L., Detection and Classification of Host-Guest Interactions Using -Cyclodextrin-Decorated Carbon Nanotube-Based Chemiresistors, Current Applied Physics 2014, 14 (12), 1649-1658.

8. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; An, J.; Zheng, L., Sequence Dependent Electrical Response of Ss-DNA-Decorated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors to Dopamine, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 2014, 5, 2081-2091.

9. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; An, J.; Zhang, Y., Wong C.H, Zheng, L., Effect of Channel Length on the Electrical Response Of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors To Deoxyribonucleic Acid Hybridization, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 2014, 5, 2113-2121

10. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; An, J.; Zheng, L., Identification of Mobility Changes Induced by Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid in the Inversion Regions of Ultralong Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Field- Effect Transistor Using Support Vector Machine and Multi-Layer Perceptron. International Journal of Nanotechnology 2014, 11(1), 207-221.

11. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; An, J., Zheng, L., Electrical Field Dependent Mobility Analysis of Ultralong Individual Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor. Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics 2013, 8 (2), 202-207.

12. An, J.; Zhan, Z.; Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; Zheng, L., Growth Condition Mediated Catalyst Effects on the Density and Length of Horizontally Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Arrays. Chemical Engineering Journal 2014, 237 (0), 16-22.

13. An, J.; Zhan, Z.; Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; Sun, G.; Hansen, R. V.; Zheng, L., Trench structure assisted alignment in ultralong and dense carbon nanotube arrays. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2015, 3 (10), 2215-2222

14. Sriraam, N.; Pradhapan, P.; Swaminathan, M.; Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K., Comparison of MLP and REN Classifiers for Detection of Hemodynamic Stress using Photoplethysmograph, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology 2013, 12(1), 97-112.

15. Pradhapan, P.; Swaminathan, M.; Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; Sriraam, N., Identification of Apnea during Respiratory Monitoring Using Support Vector Machine Classifier: A Pilot study, Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 2013, 27(2), 179-185.

16. Pradhapan, P.; Swaminathan, M.; Sriraam, N.; Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K., A Novel Detection Approach for Cardio-Respiratory Disorders Using PPG Signals, International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering 2013, 1(2), 13-23.

17. An, J.; Zhan, Z.; Sun, Gengzhi;. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K; Zhou, J.; Kim, YJ; Zheng, L; Direct Preparation of Carbon Nanotube Intramolecular Junctions on Structured Substrates, Scientific Reports, 2016, 38032 (6), 1-6.

Conferences

1. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Zheng Zheng Wong, Malcom, A., A Non-destructive Evaluation of Powder Mixing for Food Processing Industries , 4th Singapore International Non-destructive Testing Conference and Exhibition (SINCE), Singapore, Nov 2022.

2. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Malcom, A.A, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Adulteration in Edible Oil Using Capacitance , IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference (IEACon), Oct, 2022

3. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Toh, C.H, Malcom, A.A, Non-destructive Evaluation of Flexible Sachet Seal Integrity Using a Capacitive Proximity Sensor , IEACon 2021: IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference (IEACon), Nov, 2021

4. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K & Malcom, A.A, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Food and Beverage (F&B) Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Using Capacitive Proximity Sensor , IEEE Sensors Application Symposium (SAS), Aug, 2021

5. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K & Malcom, A.A, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Container Capping Integrity Using Capacitive Proximity Sensor , IEEE 5th International Conference on Electronics, Materials Engineering and Nano-Technology (IEMENTech 2021), Sep, 2021

6. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Malcom, A.A, Cheng F, Non-destructive Evaluation of Flexible Sachet Seal Integrity Using a Capacitive Proximity Sensor , IEACon 2021: IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference, Nov, 2021.

7. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Malcom, A.A, Cheng F, Capacitance-Based Contactless Monitoring of Aseptic Package Integrity and Content Quality, H.K Salila Vijayalal Mohan, A.A Malcolm and F.Cheng, IEEE Sensors Conference 2020, Netherlands, pp1-4.

8. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K , Malcom, A.A, Cheng F, A Low-Cost Capacitance-Based Non-Destructive Evaluation Platform for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Industrial Applications, H.K Salila Vijayalal Mohan, A.A Malcolm and F.Cheng, IEEE Sensors Conference 2020, Netherlands, pp1-4.

9. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K..; Varghese Hansen, R.; Zheng, L., Polyaniline/carbon nanotube composite based chemiresistors for dopamine sensing, 6th International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems, Singapore, 30 July-1 August, 2014.

10. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K..; An, J.; Zheng, L., Mobility Analysis in the Strong Inversion and Nearthreshold Region of Millimetre Long Individual Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistor, 7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Singapore, 30 June-5 July 2013.

11. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K..; An, J.; Zheng, L, DNA Oligomer Sequence Specific Electrical Response of Ultralong Parallel CNTFET to Dopamine. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrity Reliability and Failure (IRF), Funchal, Portugal, 23-27 June 2013; pp301-302.

12. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K..; An, J.; Zheng, L., A Neural Network Approach to Classify Inversion Regions of High Mobility Ultralong Channel Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors for Sensing Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE 5th International Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC),Singapore, 2-4 January 2013; pp 85-88.

13. Salila Vijayalal Mohan, H. K.; Swaminathan, M; Pradhapan, P.; Veezhinathan, M.;. Sriraam, N.,Classification of Photoplethysmograph (PPG) Signal using Probabilistic Neural Networks, International Conference on Information Processing (ICIP), The Society of Information Processing, Bangalore, India,6-8 August, 2010

Technology disclosures (for BIP, patenting and licensing)

1. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Capacitive seal integrity testing of aseptic carton packages, 2021.

2. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for non-destructive assessment of sachet seal integrity using capacitive proximity sensor, 2021.

3. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for non-destructive assessment of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) using capacitive proximity sensor, 2021.

4. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for package and product integrity testing of aseptic carton packages, 2020.

5. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for package and product integrity testing of aseptic carton packages, 2020.

6. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for powder caking detection in stainless steel hoppers, 2020.

7. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Low-cost chip-based non-destructive evaluation platform for in-line process, package and product quality inspection of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), 2020.

8. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for in-situ powder composition analysis in stainless steel hoppers before and after mixing, 2020.

9. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for non-destructive monitoring of elastomeric material integrity in downhole completion tools in oil wells , 2020.

10. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for non-destructive testing of capping closure integrity in containers, 2020.

11. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for non-destructive evaluation of seal integrity in flexible paper packages, 2020.

12. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for non-destructive assessment of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) using capacitive proximity sensor, 2021

13. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Capacitive seal integrity testing of aseptic carton packages, 2021

14. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Method and system for non-destructive assessment of sachet seal integrity using capacitive proximity sensor, 2021

15. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan, Jimmy Aung, Ang Yi Feng, Wong Zheng Zheng and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Standalone automated capacitive imaging systems for sachet seal integrity testing, 2022

16. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Oil/water fraction monitoring and measurement in continuous flow using capacitance, 2022

17. Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan and Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Non-invasive food adulteration detection using capacitance, 2022.