Education

• September 2003 - Present
  Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego.
  Adviser : Ken Zeger
  
  
• August 1999 - May 2001
  M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette.
  Advisers : Mike Zoltowski and James Krogmeier
  
  
• August 1995 - May 1999
  B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering at REC, Trichy, India.
  
  

Employment

• April 2004 - Present
  Senior Systems Engineer, Modem DSP Group, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego.
  
  
• July 2001 - April 2004
  Systems Engineer, Modem DSP Group, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego.

Research Interests

• Information Theory
• Source and Channel Coding
• Approximation Theory
• Wavelets and Multirate Signal Processing

Courses @ UCSD

• Taken so far :
  • ECE255AN Information Theory
  • ECE255BN Source Coding 1
  • CS202 Algorithms and Analysis
  • MA140A Foundations of Analysis 1
  • MA140B Foundations of Analysis 2
  • MA140C Foundations of Analysis 3
  
  
• Plan to take :
  • MA240 (A, B, C) Real Analysis
  • MA241 (A, B, C) Functional Analysis
  • ECE259AN Algebraic Coding
  • ECE259BN Trellis-coded Modulation
  • ECE259CN Advanced Coding and Modulation (if time permits)

Professional Activities

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2004-05), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2004-05).
• Reviewer for IEEE Annual Data Compression Conference, March 23-25 2004, Snowbird, Utah.
• Student Member of IEEE since 1998.
• Student Member of IEEE societies : Information Theory, Communications, Signal Processing.
• Chairman of IEEE REC Trichy Student Branch , 1998-99.
• Captain of Shuttle Badminton team of Bharathidasan University, India, 1996-97.
• Secured Top 3% rank in the Inter-Gulf Mathematics Olympiad, 1994-95.

Other Links

• Vishram Corporation, my wife's Real Estate Consultancy / Investing Company.