Academic Qualification
Ph.D. Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2007
Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of
Melbourne.
Thesis Title: Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction
Advisor: A/Prof. Marimuthu Palaniswami
Co-Advisor: Prof. Michael Parker, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical
Research, Melbourne
Bachelor of Engineering, Bangalore University, India, 2000
Major: Medical Electronics and Engineering
Minor Thesis: Optical Character Recognition as an aid for the blind
Training: A six month hospital training in Kidwai Institute of
Oncology and Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India
Other Courses:
Diploma in Bioinformatics Software, 2003, Edubiotech, Bangalore, India
Professional Society Membership
Life Member, Biomedical
Engineering Society of India (BMESI).
Member, Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Awards & Scholarships
JSBi Young Scientist Travel Grant (50,000 Yens) GIW 2006 Student
Support Program, Japan: Dec 2006.
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS): June 2003 -
April 2007
Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS): June 2003 - Dec
2006.
Bioinformation Journal - Best Student Paper Award - 2005
First Prize, Student Paper Competition, Conference on Biomedical
Engineering, 2000 .
Current Employment
Research Fellow (Since May 2007)
Supervisor:
A/Prof. M Palaniswami
Research Areas: Biomedical Signal Processing, Computational Biology,
Wireless Sensor Networks
Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering
The University of Melbourne,
Australia
Employment History
1) Research Assistant (Part-time, Jul 2003 - Apr 2007)
Supervisor:
A/Prof. M Palaniswami
Project: ARC Research
Network on ISSNIP
Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering
The University of Melbourne,
Australia
2) Teaching Assistant and Lab
Coordinator (Semester 2, 2004)
Subject: Digital Signal Processing
Supervisor:
A/Prof. M Palaniswami
Department of EEE, The University of Melbourne
3)
Project/Research Assistant (Sep 2000 - May 2003)
Supervisor:
A/Prof. A G Ramakrishnan
Medical Intelligence and Language Engineering (MILE) Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India
4) Research Consultant (Jun 2002 – Mar
2003)
Larsen and Toubro Medical Systems, Mysore
5) Junior Research Fellow (Part-Time, Mar 2002 – Dec 2002)
Neurophysiology Department
NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Before coming to Melbourne, my work at the Indian institute of
Science included Image and Signal Processing. Specifically, I had an
opportunity to work on:
Optical Character Recognition OCR for Indian languages (Funded by
Govt of India)
Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis in Indian languages (Funded by Govt
of India, Govt of Tamilnadu)
Limited vocabulary speech recognition for Command and Control of
Ultrasound Machines (Larsen and Toubro Limited)
Brain Mapping (Biomedical Company from Chandigarh)
Development of hardware Interface for Rat Brain EEG Analysis
(NIMHANS, Bangalore)
Education
Post Graduation - The
University of Melbourne, Australia
Graduation - BMS College of
Engineering, Bangalore University, India
Pre-University -
HKES Sri Veerendra Patil College, Bangalore, India
High School -
Sri Vidya Mandir Education Society, Bangalore, India
Primary Education - Little Angels English Primary School, Bangalore,
India
Nursery - Samskriti Kendra, Bangalore, India
Professional Activities
1. Reviewer of several international conferences and journals
including IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Springer Data
mining and Pattern Recognition
2. Editor, ISSNIP Annual Research Report -2007, ARC Research Network
on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor networks and Information Processing
(ISSNIP).
3. ISSNIP Conference Series, Organizing Secretary (2004), Member of
local organizing committee (2005, 2007).
4. ICISIP Conference Series, Conference Secretary (2004-2006)
5. Member of Executive Committee, International Conference on Yoga
and its Applications 2004, Melbourne, Australia.
6. Organizing Secretary, International Conference on Biomedical
Engineering, 2001, Bangalore, India.
7. Web Master, ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor
Networks and Information Processing (www.sensornetworks.net.au).
8. Founding Co-Editor - (1998 -2000 with Suyog Gaidhani and Manish
Bhatija) -INFOMED, Undergraduate Monthly Newsletter of Medical
Electronics, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.
Project Supervision
1. Co-supervisor for Final year Engineering Project on NMR for
Protein Structure Prediction (2004) -with A/Prof. M Palaniswami
2. Co-supervisor for Final year Engineering Project on HIV active
site prediction using SVM (2003) -with A/Prof. M Palaniswami
3. Co-supervisor for Final year Engineering Project on Optical
Character Recognition for Kannada Language (2001-02) -with A/Prof.
AG Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science (2nd Prize in national
level student paper competition)
4. Co-supervisor for Final year Engineering Project on Digital
Watermarking (2001) -with A/Prof. AG Ramakrishnan and Suyog Gaidhani,
Indian Institute of Science (3rd Prize in national level student
paper competition)
5. Co-supervisor for Final year MCA Project on Parallel
Implementation of Optical Character Recogniser (2001) -with A/Prof.
AG Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science
Research Supervisors
A/Prof. M Palaniswami
Prof. Michael Parker
A/Prof. AG Ramakrishnan (1998 - 2003)