Dr. Ramana AV

Experience

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  Advanced Radio Masts Pvt Limited

  Feb 1994 - Dec 1997

  Design Engineer

  • Design of DDS based fast locking 2-GHz frequency Synthesizers (PLLs)• Design and development of FH-TDMA based communication receiver• Design and development of VHF/UHF communication receivers

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  Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL)

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Technical Officer

  • Design of Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS) based HF/VHF frequency Synthesizers (PLLs)• Design and development of HF/VHF communication search receivers

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  Analog Devices

  Feb 2000 - Sept 2007

  Project Lead

  Leading a DSP software development team for development of various speech, video and channel coding algorithms for GSM cellular, Multimedia and VoIP applications using ADI 218x, Blackfin DSPs• Narrowband and Wideband Speech Coding o VoIP: G.711, G.726, G.729AB, G.723.1A, G.722 o Wireless: FR, HR, EFR, NB-AMR, WB-AMR and WB-AMR+ • Audio Coding: MP3, HE-AAC• Video Coding: MPEG4, H.264• Channel Coding: Convolutional and turbo coding• Line Echo Canceller: G.168• DTMF, AJB, VAD/CNG, PLC, Caller ID (FSK, DTMF) Show less

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  Qualcomm

  Oct 2007 - Sept 2016

  Engineer, Principal / Mgr

  * Expertise in design/development and managing projects in the following technical areas: -- Residential Gateway products (VoIP, Eth/xDSL/LTE Routers) with IPsec -- Multimedia technologies (Speech/Audio and Video coding) -- Mobile and Wireless technologies (WiFi, GSM/LTE) -- Communication Radio Transceivers (VHF/UHF and FH-TDMA)* Hands-on Programming Skills (DSPs, APs, RISC processors)* Proven ability in delivering and supporting multi-million dollar revenue generating productive solutions* Successful in leading and mentoring cross-functional teams for maximizing the productivity* Experience in interfacing with other key business units / teams including marketing, VLSI, SQA, PAE and FAE in multi-cultural global arena* Familiar with Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and Agile Scrum with CSM certification (Certified Scrum Master)* Quick learner and rapidly adapts to emerging technologies* Research exposure in the areas of Automatic Speech recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Machine Learning Algorithms and Audio/Video coding technologies Show less

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  Nuronics Labs Private Limited

  Dec 2017 - now

  CTO

  - Conversational AI based products (Chatbots / Voicebots) development with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speaker Recognition, Text-To-Speech (TTS), NLP/NLU for Indian languages and Indian English!- Natural Language Processing / Understanding (NLP/NLU), Large Language Models (LLM), RAG / Knowledge Graph RAG Systems with Langchain- Experience in AI/ML algorithms development for Image Recognition / Object Detection, Speech/Video coding technologies, Optical Character Recognition (OCR)- DevOps (AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean) with Kubernetes- Flask, FastAPI, Python, Web UI, GRPC Show less