Sharath Rao K

Boston University                                                                                                                                     [email protected] 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering                             http://www.geocities.com/raosharathonline 

8, Saint Mary’s Street, Boston 02115, MA                                                                           Phone (c): (617) 869 9923

 

 

Objective      A challenging summer internship position with responsibilities utilizing my background areas

           of signal processing and computer science

 

Research      Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing, Speech and audio processing

Interests

 

Experience   Graduate Teaching Fellow (Sep 2004 - Present)

                         Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, MA

· Facilitate the functioning of the Design Project for senior undergraduate teams

 

                        Research Assistant              (July 2003 - June 2004)

                        Speech and Audio Group, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

· Devised a speech enhancement system based on constrained iterative wiener filtering

· Developed algorithms for adaptive noise suppression for non-stationary disturbances

Education

    Boston University, Boston, MA

   Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

   Current GPA : 3.85. Expected Graduation: May 2006

 

    National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) , Deemed University, India

   Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, May 2003

         Senior Project: PC Based power quality analyzer      Overall GPA: 3.80 / 4.00

Research

Publications

· “Matrix quantization based time varying filter speech enhancement”, Accepted at the

    IEEE ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA

· “Improved Iterative Wiener Filter for non-stationary noise Speech Enhancement”,

     Proceedings of the Inter-Speech ICSLP 2004, South Korea, October 2004

·   “VQ based Techniques in Speech Enhancement”, Proc. of IEEE Annual Symposium on 

                            Mobile Computing and Applications, Nov 2003, Bangalore, India

Relevant  

Coursework   

 Graduate Courses:

          Digital Image Processing and Communication                                    Artificial Intelligence

       Advanced Digital Signal Processing        Stochastic Processes, detection and estimation

 

 

 Undergraduate Level Courses

                                  Digital Signal Processing                                                                                 Network Analysis

                                 Microprocessors                                                                      Fuzzy Logic and applications

                                 Digital System Design                                                              Digital Computer Architecture

                     Linear and Digital Control Systems                                                  Optimization Techniques

Computer

Skills

     High Level Languages      : C, C++, Visual Basic

                            Assembly Languages       :  Intel 8085, TI TMS320F243

                            Engineering Software       :  MATLAB

    Platforms                           :  Linux, Windows, DOS

 

 Projects

· Content Based Image retrieval (Nov-Dec 2004)

        An Eigenspace (PCA) based method for detecting cars in images was developed

 

· Automatic scene text location in images   (Nov-Dec 2004)

        An algorithm for locating scene text in images was developed using edge density  

        features.

 

· Comparative study of speech enhancement algorithms, ( Dec 2002-Jan 2003 )

                                Spectral subtraction, time-frequency and wiener filtering methods were implemented in

                                MATLAB and performance analysis for different noise levels was conducted.

 

· PC based power quality analyzer  ( Jan 2003-May 2003 )

       Part of a 7 member team that developed an end-to-end solution for power line data analysis

       to compute power quality measures . Project involved design of data acquisition

       circuitry, DSP and MATLAB programming. I was in charge of MATLAB programming.

 

·     High-speed multicast ATM switch simulation (June 2001-July 2001)

       Implemented the working of a multicast switch architecture in C++. Studied the effect of

       packet loss ratio, order of the delay on the computational complexity.

Honors  

· Secured a place among Top 4% of the 100,000 aspirants at IIT-JEE 1999.

· Letter of Appreciation from the Dean for excellence in Extra-Curricular Activities.

· Merit Scholarship by the Government  of India for securing a position among top 0.5% in

                            India in Social Sciences

·    Best Paper award at IEEE Intellect, National level paper presentation competition held 

    at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India (Apr 4, 2003).

· Best Presentation award at CSI Star Dot Fest, National level paper presentation competition hosted by the Computer Society of India. (April 6, 2003)

 Interests

· Editor of the official Annual College Magazine.    

· Head of the events organizing committee at Inter College Cultural festival

· Public Speaking, Writing, Photography, Non-fiction

· Natural Languages : Fluent in English, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani