Venkateswaran Vivekananthan is currently a Research Associate in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He is a recipient of NRF Creative Challenege Support award as Principal-Investigator. He received his PhD degree in Feb 2020 with President award for outstanding in research and academics from Jeju National University, South Korea. His research focuses on energy harvesting using triboelectric & piezoelectric nanogenerators for self-powered sensor systems.