Dr. Mahadevappa is a senior member of the IEEE-EMBS, a life member of the Biomedical Engineering Society of India, and a member of The Institution of Engineers (India). He has published over 50 research papers, books, and chapters on medical imaging and advances in therapeutic engineering. He is also a recipient of a travel award “for best paper” from the International Society of Biorheology, at the 10th ICB & the 3rd ICCH-1999, held in Pecs, Hungary. He served as the Conference Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Point-of-Care Healthcare Technologies in 2013. His research interests include bio-signal processing, biomedical image processing, biomedical instrumentation and biosensors, point-of-care technologies, retinal and neural prosthesis, electrical retinal stimulation, and rehabilitation engineering.