Dr. Arunprabhu Arunachalam Sugumaran has been part of National HIPIMS Technology Centre as researcher after completing his doctoral studies in 'Development of Nanostructured PVD Coatings for Total Knee Replacement Joints using high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS)' at Sheffield Hallam University in 2014. Since then, he has been involved in the development of nanoscale monolithic/ multilayer thin film coatings using direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS)/HIPIMS for various applications such as biomedical, hard, wear resistant and decorative. He had also worked as project trainee and project assistant in surface engineering division at National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), India