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I'm Venkatakrishnan Sutharsan

Embedded System Engineer - AI & ML Engineer - Amateur Radio (VU3UJA)

Venkatakrishnan Sutharsan

Embedded System Engineer / AI & ML Engineer / Amateur Radio (VU3UJA)

Passionate and Energetic Developer looking forward to work in Embedded System and Deep Learning, alongside Improving the standards of organisation

  • Lives In: College Station, Texas, USA
  • From: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Age: 26
  • Gender: Male

My Skills

Coding skills

C
95%
C++
95%
Python
92%
Java
85%
PostgreSQL
86%
SQLite3
86%
Bluespec System Verilog
75%

Other Skills

Amateur Radio Licensee
98%
Photography
95%
Video Editor
85%
Peer Mentoring
97%

Experience

  • Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
    Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
    Multiple - Grader / Student Technician

    Spring 2023 - Grader for ECEN 248 - Introduction to Digital Systems Design

    Summer 2023 - Student Technician (SETH Lab)

    Fall 2023 - Grader for ECEN 426 - Security of Embedded Systems

  • Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
    Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India
    Project Associate, Shakti Microprocessor Team

    Involved in the development of RISC-V based indigenous processor called Shakti Microprocessor. Working as a Linux Kernel Engineer along with various other projects such as Secure Hypervisor, Bootloaders and writing device drivers(both baremetal and linux).

  • Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
    Corporeal Health Solutions Ltd.
    Backend Web Developer

    Worked on Python for Backend Web Development using Flask. Worked on SQLite3 and PostgreSQL Databases. Data Security for Databases(Database Encryption and Hashing Sensitive Information). Automation of Forgot Password Mails and Registeration Mails. Gallery handling from backend. Analytics/Data Handling of User Data for Chest X-Ray based COVID-19 Detection.

  • Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
    Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Chennai, India
    Graduate Project

    Lead my Team for Graduate Project on "Electroencephalogram Signal Processing using Independent Component Analysis to classify Cognitive Stress" under the guidence of Dr. Madan Kumar Lakshmanan and Dr. Balaji Mahadevan.

  • May 2019 - Jun 2020
    Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Chennai, India
    Internship

    Internship on Study of Signal Processing Technique for EEG Signal Processing

  • Jun 2018
    Port of Chennai
    In-Plant Training

    An In-Plant Training on various sections of Chennai Port which include Power Management for Port, Logistics, Crane Mechanics.

  • Feb 2017 - Nov 2020
    SSN Photography Club
    Photogrpher

    A dynamic photographer who has covered technical and cultural festivals of SSN College of Engineering from 2016 to 2020.

Education

  • 2023 - 2024
    Master of Science in Computer Engineering
    Texas A&M University

    Current GPA : 3.67/4.00

  • 2016 - 2020
    Bachelors of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    SSN College of Engineering, Anna University

    CGPA : 8.16/10.00

  • 2014 - 2016
    All India Senior School Certification Examination
    Central Board of Secondary Education - Grade 12

    Score : 462/500 (92.4%) Computer Science Group

  • 2014 - 2015
    Diploma in Management
    Great Lakes Institute of Management

    A course on Management including Marketing, Costing, Data-Driven Decision Making, Accounting, Psychology.

  • 2002 - 2014
    All India Secondary School Examination
    Central Board of Secondary Education - Grade 10

    Score : 9.0/10.0

Certification and Trainings

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
    Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
    Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras Grade Achieved : B
  • Sep 2021
    Foundations of Computer System Design
    IIT Madras - NPTEL Grade Achieved : 91%
  • Sep 2021
    Computer Networks and Internet Protocol
    IIT Kharagpur - NPTEL Grade Achieved : 79%
  • Aug 2020
    Deep Learning Specialization
    deeplearning.ai Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Aug 2020
    Sequence Models
    deeplearning.ai Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Aug 2020
    Convolutional Neural Networks
    deeplearning.ai Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Aug 2020
    Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization
    Imperial College London Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Aug 2020
    Mathematics for Machine Learning : PCA
    Imperial College London Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Jul 2020
    Mathematics for Machin Learning : Multivariate Calculus
    Imperial College London Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Jul 2020
    Structuring Machine Learning Projects
    deeplearning.ai Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Jun 2020
    Programming for Everybody(Getting Started with Python)
    University of Michigan Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Jun 2020
    COVID-19 Contact Tracing
    Johns Hopkins University Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Jun 2020
    Improving Deep Neural Networks : Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
    deeplearning.ai Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Jun 2020
    Mathematics for Machine Learning : Linear Algebra
    Imperial College London Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Jun 2020
    Neural Networks and Deep Learning
    deeplearning.ai Grade Achieved : 100%
  • May 2020
    Machine Learning with Python
    International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Grade Achieved : 100%
  • Oct 2019
    IELTS Examination
    IDP Education Limited Score : 7.0/9.0
  • Aug 2017
    Amateur Wireless Station License
    Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communication & IT (India)
  • Nov 2015
    Diploma in Management (GLPSS Management & Entrepreneurship Program
    Great Lakes Institute of Management

Academic Projects

  • Nov 2023 - Present
    Hardware Fuzzing using Beagle Bone Black
    SETH Lab - Texas A&M University

    Developed fuzzing framework on Beagle Bone Black PLC for AM335X processor using OpenOCD and GDB. Also, we have designed Python script to dispatch operations to board and gather coverage, which can be used for bug detection.

  • Mar 2024 - May 2024
    Implementation of FIFO based cache replacement strategy in Champsim
    Texas A&M University

    Designed a FIFO-based cache replacement strategy in Champsim simulator (inspired from S3FIFO algorithm) using the concept of quick demotion to increase efficiency. Benchmark evaluation yielded a maximum improvement of 29.2%, with an overall average improvement of 2.6%.

    [GitHub]
  • Mar 2024 - May 2024
    Custom Instruction Design for Quantum Computers: An Experimental Study on Q-ISA Development
    Texas A&M University

    Conducted experimental study enhancing quantum computing with custom instructions, leveraging Quil language. Developed instructions similar to existing instructions and more quantum-specific instructions like ADD and QFT.

    [GitHub]
  • Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
    Implementation of “B” Standard Extension from RISC-V
    Shakti Lab - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

    Implementation of "B" extension from RISC-V in Shakti Microprocessor and verified the implementation using CoCoTB in Python. The implementation was found to be 15% more efficient compared to previous ones.

    [GitLab]
  • May 2019 - Sep 2020
    Electroencephalogram Signal Processing using Independent Component Analysis to classify Cognitive Stress
    Graduation Project

    Designed Experiments to collect data and worked on Python for Denoising Electroencephalogram Signals to classify them using Deep Learning. The Denoising Algorithm used was Independent Component Analysis which performs better than traditional Principle Component Analysis.

  • Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
    Wind Power Projection using Weather Forecasts by Novel Deep Neural Networks

    Created a working prototype for a Smart Farm which can be accessed from any where in the world with your mobile. It can control the lighting, motors and irrigation present in the farm. The prototype was created within 24 hours.

  • Feb 2019
    Smart Farm using IoT
    Hackathon - Lakshya, SSN College of Engineering

    Created a working prototype for a Smart Farm which can be accessed from any where in the world with your mobile. It can control the lighting, motors and irrigation present in the farm. The prototype was created within 24 hours.

  • Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
    Design of Microcontroller based Wireless controlled Animatronic Hand
    Sponsored by : SSN Research Center

    A remote robotic hand to mimic actions of the user useful in areas of high risk such as bomb diffusal and chemical laboratories.

  • Sep 2014 - May 2015
    Weather Satellite Receiver (RAD-SATT)
    National Science Exhibition, Central Board of Secondary Education

    A low-cost weather receiver capable of receiving data from NOAA Satellites and processing through software to produce the weather map.

  • Jun 2020
    Image Super Resolution Using Autoencoders in Keras
    Coursera Guided Project

    Implemented Image Super Resolution using Auto-Encoders in Keras(TensorFlow2.0)

    [Certificate] [Code]
  • Jun 2020
    Quiz Generator using Python Data Structures
    Coursera Guided Project

    Implemented a Quiz conducting program which reads the data and solutions from a CSV file using Python Data Structures including List, Set, Tuple and Dictionary.

    [Certificate] [Code]

Awards and Honors

  • February 2020 : Runner at Fox Hunt conducted by Madras Amateur Radio Society.

  • January 2020 : Winner at Election Day National Short Film Contest conducted by Election Commission of India. [Image]

  • May 2015 : Winner at the Prestigious National Science Exhibition conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education held at Blue Bells Group of Schools, Gurgaon, Haryana in 2015

Service

What I can do?

Linux Engineer

Work with Linux source code for device-drivers and device-tree configuration.

Deep Learning Engineer

Create top standard Deep Learning Models which can be deployed for production in industries.

Backend Web-Development

Handle data for Back-End Server operation in Python(Flask).

Photographer

A Photographer for you festival needs.

3

Honors & Awards

3

Publications

6

Project Complete

3

Project Ongoing
Portfolio

See my works

Brain Machine Interface

Technology, Deeplearning

Wind Power Forcasting

Machine Learning, Deeplearning, Technology

Image Super Resolution using Auto-Encoders in Keras

Coursera Guided Project, Deeplearning, CV

Smart Farm using IoT

Embedded System, IoT, Agriculture

Design of Microcontroller based wireless controlled Animatronic Hand

Embedded System, Robotics, Animatronics, Microcontrollers

Weather Satellite Receiver (RAD-SATT)

Radio Communication, Weather Map

Contact

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