About Us

“We firmly believe that we need to leave the world a better place than we found it. Our chosen field of medical electronics is a way for us to use our talents to advance the state of the art and to improve the lives of those around us.

I have a passion for electronics and have been tinkering with gadgets since high school. It is an absolute thrill to take an idea from a vague concept in the mind, to a design on a piece of paper, to a working prototype in the lab, to a manufactured product, and finally to a happy customer.

Sometimes the idea is for our own product that we get as we work with our research collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine or talk to customers who are using our current products. Quite often the idea is from a client that has identified a need for a product or service and needs help with turning it into a viable product.

Our product development team is a small tight knit group with diverse talents and it is great to see the team bounce ideas off each other and solve challenging issues. Our ability to handle both design and manufacturing under one roof is what sets us apart from many other design or manufacturing houses. Whatever we design we will help manufacture.”

Sridhar founded Indus Instruments in 1992 and has been busy designing and building products since then for both outside clients and for manufacture and sales by Indus.

There are at least a dozen commercially successful products with cumulative sales in the tens of millions of dollars that the Indus team under Sridhar’s leadership has developed since 1982. Products for outside clients cover a wide range and include: industrial turbine controllers, corneal topographers & ray tracing aberrometers for measuring human vision, ultrasonic devices for detecting chemical weapons, wireless H2S gas detectors & flame ionization detectors for the petrochemical industry, well analyzers for the oil industry, TransCranial Doppler systems to detect bubbles in the blood stream of astronauts in training, and research devices to characterize the reactivity of lunar dust for NASA.

Sridhar has enjoyed a long and close collaboration with researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston that has resulted in many SBIR grants from NIH, numerous publications and several commercially successful products. Indus manufactures and markets these products for cardiovascular researchers worldwide.

Sridhar holds a doctoral degree (1988) and a Masters degree (1985) in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University, and a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (1982). He was the V.P. of Engineering from 1988 to 1990, and the President from 1990 to 1992, at Coherent Systems, a Houston based medical device start-up that developed one of the earliest computerized electrophysiology recording and analysis devices. At Coherent, he also lead a NASA funded project to develop a battery operated hand held 2-D ultrasound imaging device for human clinical use.