Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, India, and his M.S. in Smart Product Design from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before joining Texas A&M University, Manivannan worked as an Application Engineer at Mason Industries Pte Ltd, Singapore, and as a Research Engineer at the National University of Singapore. His current research focuses on developing implantable engineered living materials for therapeutic applications.