Technology innovator / mentor / leader

ARUP ACHARYA, PhD

Nanuet, NY

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SUMMARY Accomplished technology leader / architect / innovator, expert in Cloud computing, Deep Learning, Big Data, Analytics, Unified Communications and Mobile applications/ Wireless technologies, experienced in managing advanced technology development with globally distributed teams WORK

EXPERIENCE

Research Scientist / Manager/ Research Relationship Manager IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

Jan ‘00 – Oct ‘19

Research Scientist/ Project lead

NEC Computers & Comm Research Labs, Princeton, NJ

May ‘95 – Nov ‘99

EDUCATION Ph.D. (Computer Science) – Mobile Computing, Rutgers University M.S. (Computer Science)

May '95

B.Tech (Honours) – Computer Science & Engineering- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India

June '87

Micro-MBA, Advanced Micro-MBA executive short courses KEY

PROJECTS/

LEADERSHIP

ROLES

• Incubated project on Digital Housing Ecosystem using Multimedia Blockchain & Deep Learning, led 7-person globally distributed team to create a MVP using Dockerized blockchain nodes, DL models and analytics on large housing data sets. Android apps developed for homeowner use.

• Architected a micro-services cloud architecture for an innovative Intelligent Tutoring system based on Cognitive Computing and an Analytics framework for student’s learning progression. Student app developed.

• Led projects on Social & Video Analytics using Big Data, Smartphone sensors and Large-scale Graph Analytics, created MVPs, engaged with leading-edge customers

• Responsible for a novel Social, Mobile and Video Cloud SaaS combining mobile video streaming, real-time analytics, aggregating a customer’s social & location data, context-aware message/video routing - built on IBM Cloud using micro-services architecture. Managed a 15-person offshore team to execute $7M Joint Dev Agreement with Polycom. Android apps developed for tablets and smartphones connecting to cloud/web backend.

• Developed Large-Scale Presence Virtualization technology - used to visualize real-time status of people/processes/things across enterprise, consumer and telco. Led 6-person development team across India/US to build beta product. Piloted at Qwest Communications

• Pioneered 'wearable communicator', adding communications capability to a Linux Watch

• Extensively worked on Unified Communications(UC) technology – UC as a service (UCaaS), Server scalability, Message classification. Developed SIP Service Product for Technology Services business resulting in $500M revenue

• Multiple projects on mobile networking and wireless mesh networks including participation in a large NSF project on next-gen wireless testbed

• Built an innovative mobile broadband technology (Mobile ATM) in late 90’s – led 20-person global development team and piloted solutions with telcos

• Exploratory work on Quantum Finance – won RFP from Singapore’s Central Bank

• Familiarity with broad swathe of technologies and business domains – finance, education, telco, media & entertainment

• Expert in applying innovative technologies to business problems, strategy development, growing teams from scratch, mentoring and software development lifecycle SKILLS

Cloud technologies (AWS, IBM), Blockchain, Spark/Hadoop, Mobile applications(Android, iOS), SIP/SIMPLE, Distributed Systems, Networking, Graph Analytics, Video technologies, Data Sciences, Quantum Computing, Deep Learning, API design

Engineering management, Software Development, Technology Vision/Strategy, Team building, People management, Mentoring, IP development/ licensing. Customer engagement, Consulting Languages: Python, C/C++, Java, Swift, Quantum programming PATENTS

45+ Patents awarded.

PUBLICATIONS 50+ publications in Cloud Computing, Big Data, Analytics, Mobile Computing, AI and Networking. Click on Link to get full list from Google Scholar.

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