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Ramakrishna Mukkamala

Professor
Cardiovascular Health Tech Lab Bioengineering Department

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(2019) IEEE EMBS Most Impactful Paper Award.

(2019) Michigan State University (MSU) All-University Innovation of the Year Award.

(2017) MSU College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Excellence Award.

(2008) MSU All-University Teacher-Scholar Award.

(2007) NSF CAREER Award.

(2005) AHA Scientist Development Grant.

(1993) Whitaker Foundation Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering.

(1991) General Motors Scholarship Plan.

Post-Doctoral, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Bioelectrical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000

S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Bioelectrical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995

B.S.E., Biomedical/Electrical Engineering, Duke University, 1993

Kim, D., Narayanan, D., Sung, S.H., Cheng, H.M., Chen, C.H., Kim, C.S., Mukkamala, R., & Hahn, J.O. (2024). Transmission line model as a digital twin for abdominal aortic aneurysm patients. NPJ Digit Med, 7(1), 301.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41746-024-01303-5.

Landry, C., Dhamotharan, V., Freithaler, M., Hauspurg, A., Muldoon, M.F., Shroff, S.G., Chandrasekhar, A., & Mukkamala, R. (2024). A smartphone application toward detection of systolic hypertension in underserved populations. Sci Rep, 14(1), 15410.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65269-w.

Landry, C., & Mukkamala, R. (2023). Current evidence suggests that estimating blood pressure from convenient ECG waveforms alone is not viable. J Electrocardiol, 81, 153-155.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2023.09.001.

Mukkamala, R., Stergiou, G.S., & Avolio, A.P. (2022). Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement. Annu Rev Biomed Eng, 24(1), 203-230.Annual Reviews. doi: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-110220-014644.

Yavarimanesh, M., Cheng, H.M., Chen, C.H., Sung, S.H., Mahajan, A., Chaer, R.A., Shroff, S.G., Hahn, J.O., & Mukkamala, R. (2022). Abdominal aortic aneurysm monitoring via arterial waveform analysis: towards a convenient point-of-care device. NPJ Digit Med, 5(1), 168.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41746-022-00717-3.

Mukkamala, R., Kohl, B.A., & Mahajan, A. (2021). Comparison of accuracy of two uncalibrated pulse contour cardiac output monitors in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery patients using pulmonary artery catheter-thermodilution as a reference. BMC Anesthesiol, 21(1), 189.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1186/s12871-021-01415-5.

Mukkamala, R. (2019). Blood Pressure With a Click of a Camera?. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 12(8), e009531.Wolters Kluwer. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.119.009531.

Chandrasekhar, A., Kim, C.S., Naji, M., Natarajan, K., Hahn, J.O., & Mukkamala, R. (2018). Smartphone-based blood pressure monitoring via the oscillometric finger-pressing method. Sci Transl Med, 10(431), eaap8674.American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aap8674.

Chandrasekhar, A., Natarajan, K., Yavarimanesh, M., & Mukkamala, R. (2018). An iPhone Application for Blood Pressure Monitoring via the Oscillometric Finger Pressing Method. Sci Rep, 8(1), 13136.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31632-x.

Martin, S.L.O., Carek, A.M., Kim, C.S., Ashouri, H., Inan, O.T., Hahn, J.O., & Mukkamala, R. (2018). Author Correction: Weighing Scale-Based Pulse Transit Time is a Superior Marker of Blood Pressure than Conventional Pulse Arrival Time. Sci Rep, 8(1), 15838.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34167-3.

Liu, J., Cheng, H.M., Chen, C.H., Sung, S.H., Hahn, J.O., & Mukkamala, R. (2017). Patient-Specific Oscillometric Blood Pressure Measurement: Validation for Accuracy and Repeatability. IEEE J Transl Eng Health Med, 5, 1900110.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2016.2639481.

Natarajan, K., Cheng, H.M., Liu, J., Gao, M., Sung, S.H., Chen, C.H., Hahn, J.O., & Mukkamala, R. (2017). Central Blood Pressure Monitoring via a Standard Automatic Arm Cuff. Sci Rep, 7(1), 14441.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-14844-5.

Kim, C.S., Ober, S.L., McMurtry, M.S., Finegan, B.A., Inan, O.T., Mukkamala, R., & Hahn, J.O. (2016). Ballistocardiogram: Mechanism and Potential for Unobtrusive Cardiovascular Health Monitoring. Sci Rep, 6(1), 31297.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/srep31297.

Moslehpour, M., Kawada, T., Sunagawa, K., Sugimachi, M., & Mukkamala, R. (2016). Nonlinear identification of the total baroreflex arc: higher-order nonlinearity. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 311(6), R994-R1003.American Physiological Society. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00101.2016.

Mukkamala, R., Hahn, J.O., Inan, O.T., Mestha, L.K., Kim, C.S., Töreyin, H., & Kyal, S. (2015). Toward Ubiquitous Blood Pressure Monitoring via Pulse Transit Time: Theory and Practice. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 62(8), 1879-1901.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2441951.

Mukkamala, R., & Xu, D. (2010). Continuous and less invasive central hemodynamic monitoring by blood pressure waveform analysis. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 299(3), H584-H599.American Physiological Society. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00303.2010.

Research interests

cardiovascular bioengineering...
computational physiology
medical devices
mHealth
patient monitoring
physiologic sensors
physiologic signal processing
whole animal, human, and patient...