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• Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa along with Univ. of California, Los Angeles
  Phd (Mathematical Technology) (2004 - 2006).
  Signal Processing for Power Systems Application ('Abrupt Change Detection in Automatic Disturbance Recognition in Electrical Power Systems'), done jointly with ESKOM, South Africa's national power utility.
  
  
• South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany along with University of Bolton, Bolton, UK
  MSc. (Electronic Systems & Engineering Management) (2002 - 2004).
  And I received the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) full scholarship for this course.
  Main Subjects :-
  Digital Signal Processing (Matlab, Labview).
  Intelligent System: Neural Network, Expert System, Statistical Learning-Support Vector Machines, Kernel Methods
  Microprocessor, Microcontroller-based Systems, Embedded Systems (C programming, ATMEL board).
  Advanced Control: System Modelling, Fuzzy System, with MATLAB, Simulink, Dymola-Modelika.
  Engineering Management: Environmental Management System (EMS), Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Administration in Engineering, Project Management,
  Technical Publication & Seminar Presentation.
  MSc. project : Speech Recognition for Modular Robotics (using Linear Predictive Coefficient and Artificial Intelligence: Neural Network, Expert System technologies, Sensory Inc.'s Voice-Extreme toolkit)
  
  
• Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032 ,W.B., India
  Bachelor (Electrical Engineering) (1996 - 2000). First Class Honours Degree (81%).
  Main Subjects :-
  Machines, Control, Power, Measurement, Instrumentation, Electronics(Analog & Digital), Microprocessor & Sequential Circuits, Computer Science: Hardware/Software Engineering, High Voltage, Power Electronics, Drives, Advanced Digital Communication, DSP etc.

• Research Scientist (Full-time) at 'ABB Corporate Research', Baden-Daettwil, Switzerland, (October, 2006 - till date).
  Part of 'Intergrated Sensor Systems' group working on automation devices, focusing on advanced R&D on embedded signal processing, machine learning, intelligent systems.
  
  
• R&D Engineer (Part-time) at Univ. of South-Westphalia, 'INNOPSE Project Group', Germany, (January, 2003 - October, 2003).
  Worked as R&D Engineer for Application Service Provider (ASP) technology solutions.
  
  
• Software Engineer (Full-time) at 'Interra Software (India) Pvt. Ltd.', India, (July, 2000 - June, 2002).
  Worked as design & developer for application software and web development.
  
  

• Teaching B.Tech students Electrical-Technology II (AC circuits & 3-Phase systems) at Tshwane Univ. of Technology, South Africa, (January, 2005 - June, 2005).

• Abrupt Change Detection in Automatic Disturbance Recognition in Electrical Power Systems
  
  Supervisor: Dr. Rastko Zivanovic
  
  Synopsis: The aim is to perform automatic event-specific segmentation of the power systems disturbance signals by detecting the abrupt changes in the signal model parameter. Abrupt change detection-based segmentation is the first step towards automatic disturbance recognition, facilitating further feature vector construction and pattern recognition. Different new approaches, algorithms and methods for abrupt change detection are proposed and implemented using Matlab. Major techniques used include the wavelet transform, adaptive wavelets, recursive system identification, adaptive whitening filtering and so forth. Experimentations are done on the real disturbance signals obtained from the digital fault recorders (DFRs) of the power network in South Africa.
  
  Timeframe: 2004 - 2006
  
  Download (Right click and Save Target As):  Abstract,  Thesis (2.5 MB)

• Speech Recognition for Modular Robotics
  
  Software Implementation: Feature-based Approach-Linear Predictive Coefficients (LPC) along with Generalized Regression Neural Network
  Hardware Implementation: Sensory Inc.'s Voice-Extreme toolkit
  
  Timeframe: August, 2003 - January, 2004
  
  Download (Right click and Save Target As):  MSc. Project Abstract,  MSc. Thesis (4 MB)

• Winning the chemometrics calibration challenge ('Shoot-out') held at the 11th Conf. on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, CAC08, Montpellier, France, July 2008 (http://cac2008.org).
  
  
• Winning 'Best Result before Five' prize in the Matlab Gene Splicing Programming Contest, by Mathworks Inc., Novmeber, 2007.
  
  
• Best Paper Award at the Second World Congress on Lateral-Computing (WCLC 2005), Bangalore, India, December 2005 for the research paper "Use of Intelligent Agents to Implement Power Quality in the Mining Sector".
  
  
• Funding from Univ. of California, Los Angeles at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, 2005.
  
  
• Full-time Postgraduate Bursary and National Research Foundation (NRF) Bursary for Ph.d. (2004-2006).
  
  
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for pursuing MSc. in Germany. (2002-2004).
  
  
• Indian National Scholarship in 1994.
  
  
• Medal in All India Science Talent Search Test, 1994.
  
  

• Signal processing and applications
  
  
• Machine learning (NN, SVM, etc) and applications
  
  
• Power systems
  
  
• Computational Neuroscience, Neuro/Bio-Informatics, Bio-inspired Computing, Dynamic Programming
  
  
• Computational neuroscience & biology
  
  
• Algorithm development, Games, Sequences