The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Om Prakash's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Om Prakash
Interested in Supervising MSc and PhD Students
His research focuses on the development of advanced wearable medical devices and digital health technologies to enable personalised, remote, and data-driven patient monitoring. This work integrates biomedical signal processing, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence to address key challenges in early diagnosis, disease prediction, and long-term condition management.
Potential research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Wearable medical devices and smart sensing technologies
- Biomedical signal processing (e.g., ECG, respiration, multimodal sensing)
- Flexible, skin-conformal, and biocompatible sensors
- Microneedle-based biosensing technologies
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for healthcare applications
- Real-time physiological data acquisition and edge computing
- Remote patient monitoring and at-home healthcare systems
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health monitoring
- Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare
- Early detection and prediction of disease progression
Prospective applicants with a strong interest in these areas are encouraged to make initial contact via email, including a CV and a brief statement of research interests
He has received multiple prestigious awards recognising his academic excellence and research contributions in biomedical engineering. He was honoured with the Best Student Award for research excellence at the 62nd Convocation Ceremony in April 2019. His innovations have earned international recognition, including Gold Awards at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE 2019, Kuala Lumpur) for the IoT-based cardiopulmonary monitoring device (iBREATHE), and at the Korea Creative Invention Contest (CiC 2017, Seoul) for a real-time human respiration CO₂ measurement device for asthma monitoring. Additionally, he received a Merit Award at the Asia Pacific Conference on Medical & Biological Engineering (2017, Penang) for developing a respiratory CO₂ measurement device for cardiorespiratory assessment. He was also awarded a Certificate of Merit for securing second rank during his Master’s degree at SRM University. Further recognition includes certificates of appreciation for prototype development at the International Research Conference & Innovation Exhibition 2016 at Universiti Kuala Lumpur and for research showcase participation at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
Supervised Research Degrees
Supervised Students:
- Undergraduate: 07
- Postgraduate (Master’s): 02
- Intern: (01)
Teaching
- Wearable Device
- Rapid wearable prototyping laboratory
- Bio-signal processing
- Biomedical Instrumentation - I, II
- Digital signal processing
- Modeling of Physiological Systems etc.