He has ten years of industrial experience in precision manufacturing and three years of postdoctoral research experience in micro and nano manufacturing. He is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - ASME MED Manufacturing Processes Technical Committee (MPTC) member and Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)- NAMRI/SME Scientific Committee member for 2012-2014. Dr. Sundaram is an Associate Editor of the SME's Journal of Manufacturing Processes, and is an International Editorial Review Board member of International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering and Int. Journal of Materials Forming and Machining Processes.