Abhilash is a researcher at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), specializing in AI-driven manufacturing innovations. His research expertise includes AI enabled smart manufacturing, digital twins, additive manufacturing, ultra-precision, and non-traditional manufacturing processes.

Previously, he worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Precision Manufacturing (CPM), University of Strathclyde, where he successfully developed and implemented digital twin solutions for the smart manufacturing of high-value products as part of the 'SMART' EPSRC project.

Abhilash holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad (India), with coursework completed at IIT Madras. He also earned a Master’s degree in Engineering Design (First rank at the university level) and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amrita University (India).

With over 25 research articles published in reputed international peer-reviewed journals, he has also published an edited book on 'Bioimplants Manufacturing' and contributed to several international conference publications including CIRP, WCMNM, Nanoman and SPIE Photonics. Recently his perspectives on the explainability of AI enabled manufacturing systems were published in the highly reputed Nature journal 'npj Advanced Manufacturing'.

He recently had two best paper awards in international conferences - NanoMan 2022 at Dublin, Irelend and ICPE 2024 at Japan. He is the guest editor of Applied Sciences journal (Q1, SCIE) and Co-chair of the 3rd AIGC 2025 international conference.