Design Engineer Electrical

Venkat Raman Senapati http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~vsenapat/

********@******.***.*** http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vsenapat/index.html

**** ****** ******, ********* #*, Pittsburgh, 15217, PA 412-***-****

Research Assistant Spring2011, Teaching Assistant- Fall 2011

Objective:

An electrical & computer engineering full-time position (from December 2011) involving systems/embedded software design,

research & development, debugging, validation or other related work.

Education:

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Current GPA 3.81/4 GPA 4.0/4.0 in Spring 2011

Master of Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Expected Dec 2011

Selected Coursework:

W eb Application Development Real time embedded systems Fundamentals of Embedded Systems

Advanced Mobile Robot Development Image, Video & multimedia Distributed Systems (Labs)

Machine Learning Research Project Algorithms & Data Structures

Computer Vision Advanced Mobile Robot Development Introduction to HCI methods

National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, Bachelor of Technology, EE, 2008: GPA: 8.76/10

Technical Work Experience:

Summer Intern, Machine Learning Dept., NEC Laboratories, Princeton May 12th 2011: August 26th 2011

- Created a context aware computing model using Android phones, Java based framework, ActiveMQ messaging system,

Android applications & machine learning algorithms using Lua-based Torch software package.

Design Engineer for OMAP4 multimedia processor, Texas Instruments, India July 7th 2008: June 29th 2010

--Designed and implemented the software framework, wrote manuals and achieved challenging performance targets for

the advanced imaging algorithms & validated them on various platforms and hardware boards.

- Developed device drivers & chip set libraries for sub modules of the imaging sub system & peripheral devices.

- Implemented multimedia frameworks like OpenMax for video codecs like H264, VP6 decoders.

- Involved with multi-core software development, real time OS, debuggers, code profiling, code coverage, unit testing,

software configuration management, CRM tools & Eclipse based simulators.

Recent Academic Projects:

1. Developed simple system calls for Linux kernel of Android based Motorola Droid phone.

2. Implemented system calls to specify the budget for various applications & profiled them using system calls & hr timers.

3. Implemented dynamic power management schemes for the Motorola Droid phone & developed an Android application.

4. Implemented drivers, interrupt handler, SWI handler, scheduler, etc & built a mini real time OS kernel for Intel gumstix board.

5. Implemented a user interface prototype for an exercise machine in the human computer interaction course.

6. Developed infrastructure for message passing, clock ordering, and reliable multicasting & mutual exclusion for multiple nodes

of a distributed system.

7. Design & implemented the perception algorithms for the Google X prize lunar mission challenge.

8. Ergo buddy project - Worked on a tool that supports the training of activity recognition systems using machine learning

algorithms for context aware computing.

9. Developed programs for machine learning algos like decision trees, PAC theory, neural networks, concept learning,

Na ve Bayes, Hidden markov model, instance based learning etc.

10. Created 2D-3D image conversion & implemented steganography, edge & feature extraction for images, vehicle detection

with AdaBoost algorithm, contour tracking with snake algo, PCA to recognize faces, SIFT matching using Matlab & Simulink &

Emotion Recognition using Kinect.

Skills: Programming in C, C++, JAVA, Assembly, Lua, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, CSS, M ATLAB, Simulink

Publication Summary:

1. "Genetic Algorithm based Image restoration using a new constrained deconvolution method" ICEDSP, Manipal University,

Manipal, December 2009

Undergraduate Research Experience:

1. Power flow solution with FACTS devices.

2. Controlling output voltage for an induction generator & Electrical machine modeling and analysis for DC, AC machines

Undergraduate Training & Internships:

Vocational training & internship, May 2006 June 2006, National Aluminum Company, Koraput Orissa, India

Volunteer Work - June 2007 July 2007, Institute of Embedded Technology, Hyderabad, India

Honors:

Awarded merit scholarship in Bachelor of Technology & Awarded in Essay Writing, Technical Quiz, and Design competitions.

Extra-Curricular & Leadership Experience:

W as selected as Joint Secretary of the IEEE Student Branch.

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