Kalyan Nadella is a Senior Manager for Receiver Development at Knowles. He holds a Ph.D. and MS degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan where he studied ultrasonic wave propagation in composites. After that he spent 4 years in the automotive industry working on structural simulations and acoustic damping products. Over the past 7 years as part of the R&D organization at Knowles he has worked on developing new balanced armature (BA) receivers. He currently directs improvements, modifications and iterations of BA designs to meet market demands.