Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan
ஆ க ராமகிருஷ்ணன்
Ramakrishnan in 2012
Born
Ramakrishnan

(1958-02-14) 14 February 1958 (age 66)
Bangalore, India
Other namesRam
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsSignal processing, machine learning, language technology
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Science
Doctoral advisorT M Srinivasan
Websitemile.ee.iisc.ac.in/AGR/index.htm

Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan is a senior professor of electrical engineering and an associate faculty of Centre for Neuroscience, both at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Heritage Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He heads the Medical intelligence and language engineering lab. He also won the Manthan Award 2015 for his project, “Madhura - the gift of voice”, under the category, e-education, learning, and employment. He is also one of the founder directors of RaGaVeRa Indic Technologies private limited recognized by the Karnataka Government as one of the Elevate 2019 Startup winners.[1] He is one of the advisors of Bhashini AI Solutions private limited also recognized by the Karnataka Government as one of the Elevate 2019 Startup winners.[2] From January 2017 to June 2020, he was a Member of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಜ್ಞಾನ ಆಯೋಗ).[3] He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) since November 2019. Since August 2022, he is also the Advisor - Neuroscience to Feedfront Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a startup based in Bangalore.[4]

Biography

Ramakrishnan is a graduate of PSG College of Technology.[5] He obtained his M. Tech. (Electrical Engineering) and Ph. D. (Biomedical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.[6] He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, United States. His research areas are speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, and neural signal processing. He led a national research consortium on online handwriting recognition in Indian languages, funded by the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India from 2007 to 2016, which had partners from IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, ISI Kolkata, IIIT Hyderabad, C-DAC Pune and Thapar University. He has graduated 19 Ph.D. scholars, 16 Masters by research students, and guided over 90 M Tech projects. He was interviewed by Bhasha India for his contributions to Indic computing.[7] He completed the Curriculum for Living and the Communication courses offered by Landmark Education from 1999 to 2001 and volunteered as a seminar leader for Landmark Education from 2002 to 2008.

Professional activities

Honours

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References

  1. ^ "Elevate 2019 Startup winners: Full list of 100 winners announced by Karnataka Govt". August 2019.
  2. ^ "Elevate 2019 Startup winners: Full list of 100 winners announced by Karnataka Govt". August 2019.
  3. ^ "Karnataka Knowledge Commission".
  4. ^ "Advisor - Neuroscience, Feedfront Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore". 9 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Distinguished Alumni". Electronics & Communication Engineering, PSG College of Technology. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  6. ^ Ramakrishnan, Dr. A.G. "More news re IITM & her alumni". IIT Madras. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  7. ^ Ramakrishnan, A. G. "Interview with Prof. A. G. Ramakrishnan". Microsoft Corporation. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Frontiers".
  9. ^ "Senate of International Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad".
  10. ^ "Karnataka Knowledge Commission".
  11. ^ Ramakrishnan, A G. "Committees". Indian Institute of Science. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  12. ^ Ramakrishnan, A.G. (9 December 2011). "Manipal to host meet on biomedical engineering". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  13. ^ Ramakrishna, Dr. A.G. "Programmes". Archived from the original on 3 October 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  14. ^ Teaching Excellence in Engineering by IISc Council – India. "Jaya-Jayant Award for Teaching Excellence in Science/Engineering - Winners".
  15. ^ Gift of new abilities – India. "The Manthan Award South Asia 2014 - Winners". Digital Empowerment Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  16. ^ Ramakrishnan, AG. "பேராசிரியர் எம்.ஆனந்தகிருஷ்ணன் விருதுகள்". INFITT.

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