Engineer Computer Science

RESUME

Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde

*** ******** *****, ***** *****, CA 95051.

Tel: 408-***-****(M), 408-***-****(H)

Email: ***********@*****.***

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/venkataramanaraogadde/

Research Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Venkata_Gadde2/

Expertise:

. Speech and Language Technology

. Text Analytics (Automatic Key Term extraction, Topic

segmentation/labeling, Text Summarization)

. Machine learning

. Information Retrieval

. Mobile Voice Search Technology

. Building Robust Systems.

Relevant work Experience:

Principal Engineer (May 2013-Current), Senior Technical Leader (Nov 2010-

May 2013), Cisco Systems, Milpitas, CA

. Leading the Spoken Language Analytics in the Video Analytics

Technology team.

. Developed technology for Automatic Key Term Extraction for Enterprise

customers.

. Led R&D in automatic topic segmentation and labeling of Enterprise

videos.

. Led the design and development of Technology to build language models

for recognition of speech in Enterprise videos.

. Developed technology to build very large vocabulary (1M words+)

language models

. 4 papers in CTech (2011,2012), 3 demos at DemoExpo 2012

. 3 patents filed on topic segmentation, and labeling.

Co-Founder and VP Software Engineering (Aug 2009-Nov 2010), Actgent Inc,

Sunnyvale, CA

. Led the development of the Social Recommendations Engine

. Implemented Clustering based Personalized Recommendation algorithms

. Managed a remote team of 6 software developers.

VP Natural Language (Jan 2009-Jul 2009), Bluepulse, San Mateo, CA

. Led the development of the spoken input and language understanding

component of the aphoot mobile application (similar to Siri), that

connects user requests to web and human service providers.

VP and Chief Scientist (Nov 2006-Nov2008), V-Enable Inc, San Diego, CA

. Built and led the R&D team focusing on Voice Search Technology for

mobile applications.

o Our solution powered the Metro PCS 411 directory search.

Senior Research Engineer (2001-2006), Research Engineer (1998-2001),

International Fellow (1996-97), Speech Technology and Research Lab, SRI

International, Menlo Park, CA 94025.

. Led the SRI team on Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE) evaluations

(2000-2001) that won the 2001 evaluation.

. Consulted for government and commercial clients including US Marines,

TELIA (Swedish Telecom) and Tellme.

. Developed novel techniques for Adult/child classification, duration

modeling, and, noise adaptation.

. Implemented significant portions of the SRI's ASR code base (incuding

dec. tree based model training, acoustic modeling, model adaptation,

VTL estimation, signal proc. for feature computation, and duration

modeling).

Assistant Professor (1996-97), Lecturer (1988-96), Dept. of Computer

Science & Engineering, IIT Chennai, Chennai, India.

Education:

. PhD in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Chennai,

India.

Thesis: Word boundary hypothesisation in Hindi Speech.

. M.Tech in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Chennai,

India.

. B.Tech in Electronics & Electrical Communications Eng., Indian

Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Awarded Silver Medal.

Programming and related skills:

. Java, C, C++, Python, Awk/Gawk and shell scripting, Unix/Linux

Publications:

. 5 papers in journals and 30+ papers in conferences.

. Reviewed papers for IEEE trans. Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE

trans. Biomedical Engineering, Speech Communication, and Computer

Speech and Language.

Patents:

. US Patent 6,725,195, Method and Apparatus for Probabilistic

Recognition Using a Small Number of Clusters, Ananth Sankar and

Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Issued 2004.

. US Patent 7,120,580, Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a

noisy environment, Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Horacio Franco, and Jon

Butzberger, Issued 2006.

. US Patent 7,533,020, Method and apparatus for performing relational

speech recognition, James F Arnold, Michael W Frandsen, Anand

Venkataraman, Douglas A Bercow, Gregory K Myers, David J Israel,

Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Horacio Franco, Harry Bratt, Issued 2008

. US Patent 7,571,095, Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a

noisy environment, Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Venkata Ramana

Rao Gadde, Issued 2009.

. US Patent 7,769,593, Method and apparatus for active noise

cancellation Anand Venkataraman, Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Martin

Graciarena, Issued 2010.

Citizenship:

. US Citizen and Permanent Visa holder (OCI) of India.

In News :

. Quoted in National Geographic News article "Rise of the Machines:

Surveillance Software Gets Smart"

(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0222_060222_wiretappin

g.html), Feb 2006.

References:

. Will be provided on request.

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