Ashwin Kumar

Current

• Associate at Progeniq Pte. Ltd.

Past

• Design and Development Officer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic
• Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.

Education

• National University of Singapore
• National Institute of Technology Karnataka
• Mangalore University

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education

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Computer Hardware

Ashwin Kumar’s Summary

* Development and implementation of algorithms on FPGAs
* Algorithm solutions for FPGA architectures
* Information Theory and Signal Processing
* Optimisation techniques for scheduling, wireless sensor networks, 3D bin-packing
* Data/Information Mining

Ashwin Kumar’s Specialties:

Concepts
* Analysis and design of algorithms
* Technology research
* FPGA architectures

Software
* Verilog, Xilinx tools for synthesis, Modelsim
* C, C++
* MatLab

Ashwin Kumar’s Experience

• Associate

  Progeniq Pte. Ltd.

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Research and develop techniques to implement high speed applications on FPGAs.

• Design and Development Officer

  Ngee Ann Polytechnic

  (Educational Institution; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 2002 — July 2003 (9 months)

  Research and Development of Software Radio platforms.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  July 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 4 months)

  Research and develop algorithms in areas of scheduling, optimization, and speech recognition.

Ashwin Kumar’s Education

• National University of Singapore

  PhD , Electrical Engg, Telecom, Information theory , 2003 — 2009

  Thesis: Signal processing techniques for high density optical recording.
  Research: information theory and signal processing to enable multi-level optical recording systems.

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  M. Tech , Systems Analysis and Computer Applications , 1999 — 2001

  Thesis: Data Mining using Fuzzy sets
  Research: Fuzzy set theory is used to get an equivalence relation in large data sets, thus leading to easier classification and searching in data.
  
  USPTO 6,904,420

• Mangalore University

  B.Engg , Electrical and Electronics , 1995 — 1999

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education

  B. Eng , Electrical and Electronics Engineering , 1995 — 1999

Additional Information

Ashwin Kumar’s Interests:

Mac, black&white film photography, darkroom printing, music, cooking, travel, reading sci-fi novels.

Ashwin Kumar’s Groups:

Saints

•    NITK Surathkal Alumni
•    FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
•    Cloud Computing
•    MIT, Manipal Alumni
•    High Performance & Super Computing
•    Algorithms
•    GPGPU Users
•    CUDA Users Group
•    TEDx SINGAPORE

Ashwin Kumar’s Honors:

Papers - Ashwin Kumar, Kees A Immink, "Construction of Capacity Achieving (M,d,infty) Constrained Codes with Least Decoder Window Length", IEEE Trans on Inform. Theory., Vol. 54, Issue 10. Pgs. 4724-4726, Oct. 2008.

Papers - Ashwin Kumar, Kees A Immink, "Design of Close-to-Capacity Constrained Codes for Multi-Level Optical Recording", Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Patents - USPTO 6,904,420
Published Patents - 20060092913, 20030195785, 20030191678

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