Ganesan Ramachandran 
Email: rganesan@ufl.edu  
1111, SW 16th avenue, Apt. 10, Gainesville, FL 32601  
Tel: (352) 378-6890  
URL: http://www.r-ganesan.com

OBJECTIVE
   Looking for a challenging internship position that involves prior knowledge and experience in Digital signal processing applications.

EDUCATION 
   Master of Science in Electrical and computer Engineering, August 2000- present
   University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
   GPA : 3.83
        
   Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication. August 1995 - May 1999.
   Regional Engineering College, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India.
   Percentage: Equivalent to GPA of 3.7 (Secured First Class with Distinction)

WORK EXPERIENCE 
   Title            : VLSI & System Design Engineer
   Organization     : WIPRO GLOBAL R & D, Bangalore, India. (A SEI-CMM Level 5 Company).
   Duration         : June 1999 -July 2000.
   Responsibilities : Design & testing of FPGAs for telecommunication products & embedded systems.

SKILLS
   Applications      : MATLAB (V5.2) 
   Languages         : High level    Assembly               HDL
                          C          TMS 320C50             Verilog
                                     CARMEL
                                     ADSP SHARC 21061
   Operating Systems : Windows NT, Windows 9x, Unix, Linux, Novell NetWare, and MS-DOS   

AREAS OF INTEREST 
   Applications of Digital Signal Processing, VLSI Design for Digital Signal Processors & Wireless Communications.   

RELEVENT COURSEWORK  
   Graduate          : Foundations of Digital Signal Processing, Noise in Linear Systems, Pattern recognition.
   Undergraduate : 
      DSP            : Image Processing, Speech Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Signals and Systems 
      Communication  : Probability Theory and Random Processes, Statistical Theory of Communication, Analog Communication, Digital Communication, Satellite Communication, Optical Fiber Communication, Antennas.  
      VLSI & Circuits: Bipolar IC design, Amplifiers and Oscillators, VLSI Design, Solid state circuits.
 

PUBLICATIONS 
   1. "Application of Selective Discrete Fourier Transform Algorithm for the analysis of EEG signals" at the "International Conference on Medical Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures", held at Chennai, India.
   2. "Linear and Non-Linear analysis of Heart Rate Variability" at  "Tarang'99", a National Level technical Symposium held at KREC, India.
   3. "Spread spectrum communication for anti-jamming applications" at "Waves’98",a National Level technical symposium held at Anna University,Chennai,India.

PROJECTS
   Completed:
      Biomedical Signal Processing:  
         Application of DSP for the analysis and display of EEG signals. This involved development of a DSP tool for the analysis and display of EEG signals. 

         Selective Discrete Fourier Transform method for the analysis of EEG signals.It involved a comparative study of STFT & SDA algorithms for finding the EEG spectrum.

         Linear and Non-linear analysis of Heart Rate Variability. It involved non-linear methods including Phase space reconstruction, computation of embedding parameters, correlation dimension  

      Speech Processing:
         Implementation of 8kbps speech codec using CS-ACELP Algorithm. It involved implementing an 8kbps speech codec on ADSP SHARC 21061 processor according to ITU-T G.729 specifications.

      VLSI:
         Test of a VGA capture FPGA. It involved testing an FPGA that receives video data in VESA format and converts into CCIR 656 format.

         Implementation of b3zs encoder and decoder. It involved the implementation of an FPGA that encodes AT&T T1 data into b3zs format and decodes back into the original format.
         Comparison of various pattern recognition methods for speech recognition.        

   Current:
         Detecting differences between delay vector distributions. This involves implementing an algorithm that detects whether two sets of delay vectors have the same underlying multidimensional probability distribution.

INTERNSHIPS
   1. Learnt the chain of operations from studio to satellite uplink in the Regional Television center, Chennai, India. May-June 1997.
   2. Learnt PC troubleshooting in United Business Machines, Chennai, India. May - June 1996.

ACTIVITIES
   1. Participated in the DSPS FEST, an International conference on DSP applications conducted by Texas Instruments at Bangalore, India.  
   2. Presented a paper in "International Conference on Medical Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures" held at Chennai, India.

REFERENCES
   Available upon request.