Atul Divekar

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765-***-****

Mailbox #65,

abl40c@r.postjobfree.com

W. Lafayette IN 47907

OBJECTIVE: A challenging full time position starting August 2010.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

2003: Co-op at Atheros Communications, Sunnyvale, CA, working on design

and testing of a wireless video chipset. Specified real time interfaces

for video transport over 802.11x LAN chips including MPEG-TS and I2C.

Interfaced MPEG codec boards with FPGA emulator for the chip and tested

reliable video transport. (1 patent filed.)

Teaching Assistant, Purdue University: Taught calculus courses for 6

semesters; Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award.

EDUCATION:

PhD student in Electrical Engineering Purdue University, 2003 -

(Expected: Dec 2010, available for work Aug '10)

Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue

University, May 2001 GPA: 4.00

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, University of Pune,

India, May 1999 GPA: 3. 90

Certificate in Applied Management Principles, Summer Program, Purdue

University, summer 2000

SKILLS:

Competencies: signal/image processing, compressive sensing, wireless

networking, JPEG/MPEG/H.264/image and video compression, wavelet based

image processing, remote sensed image processing (image fusion,

superresolution)

Error resilience and correction algorithms for images/video and error

correction codes (Reed Solomon, LDPC etc)

Computer Languages: C/C++, MATLAB, Intel 80x86/8051 assembly

RELEVANT COURSES:

Digital Signal Processing, Wireless Networking, Internetworking, Digital

Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms

PROJECTS:

1) Error Resilience for Digital Video: Implemented error resilience

methods for recovery of noisy digital video.

2) Cleaning of noisy speech using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm.

3) Senior Project: Developed software to insert subtitles for 11 Indian

languages into MPEG digital TV or DVD streams.

4) Wireless Networking (Class Paper): Proposed a design for a CDMA packet

wireless cellular system

5) Seminar on DSL modems in Senior Class

GRANT WRITING: Wrote proposals to NASA, EPA and NSF for Compressive Sensing

research. Awarded a 1-year Grant by NASA and Andrews Environmental Research

Grant from the Purdue Graduate School.

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES:

College of Engineering, Pune, Merit Scholarship 1995-97.

Higher Secondary Certificate Examination 1995: 16th in State Merit List out

of 200,000 students in Maharashtra State.

National Open Merit Scholarship, India, 1993.

Student Member, IEEE

PUBLICATIONS:

Image Fusion by Compressive Sensing, A. Divekar, O. Ersoy, 17th Intl

Conference on Geoinformatics, 2009.

Compact Storage of Correlated Data for Content Based Retrieval, A. Divekar,

O. Ersoy, 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2009

Content Based Retrieval of Multispectral Images with Compact Storage, A

Divekar, O. Ersoy, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,

submitted.

Technical Report: "Remote Sensing Methods by Compressive Sensing", TR-ECE-

09-05 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ecetr/385/

Probabilistic Basis Pursuit for Compressive Sensing, A Divekar, O. Ersoy,

submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

VISA STATUS: F1

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