SUMMARY:

• Entrepreneurial technologist and inventor with 15+ years’ extensive experience architecting, developing and deploying end - to-end computing systems (software + hardware) in the wireless communications, healthcare and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors.
• Proven technical leader and collaborator with extensive experience working with multidisciplinary teams and end users/customers.
• Developer of innovative prototypes; taking to scale including laboratory testing and validation, field-trials, and commercialization.
• Strong skills in technology transfer, partnership development, and capacity building.
• Significant experience in deploying high-tech healthcare systems in resource-limited settings
• Currently working on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for healthcare.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Cloud computing, microservices, AI, pervasive/mobile computing, client/server, embedded systems

Languages: Java, Python, C/C++, C#

Deep Learning: PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, Coursera Deep Learning specialization (completed courses 1 - 4)

Operating systems: Android, Linux (desktop and embedded distros), Symbian, RTOS, Windows (desktop and embedded)

Hardware: Schematic and PCB design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Founder, CEO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical consultant to local entrepreneurs building a healthcare company leveraging AI.
• Developing framework on top of PyTorch to augment model training. Features include: faster transfer learning, live visualization during training, cyclic learning rates for faster convergence. Framework will be open sourced soon.
• Modeling for medical diagnoses: blood cell subtype classification ( Confidential ), Pneumothorax detection in X-rays (ChestX-ray8), cell nuclei segmentation ( Confidential ).
• Offered market research, system design, implementation, deployment, technical support and technology transfer services to clients including The World Bank Group, PATH, Omnizent Technologies (tech start-up in India), and the Human Milk Banking Association of South Africa.
• Projects included:
• Research for smartphone-based, non-invasive system to measure human biomarkers and for mobile, rapid test to detect contamination in drinking water.
• Development of peer-to-peer Android app to remotely control hospital rooms’ electric and environmental parameters over Bluetooth.
• Technical capacity building, knowledge transfer and technical support for engineers, users of a mobile system to monitor pasteurization of breastmilk. (Continuation of Ph.D. project, more details given below)

Software Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Portable ultrasound: Key technical team member for project responsible for the backend for Confidential ’s Android-based portable ultrasound system called Lumify. Owner of the mobile device provisioning, orchestration and management features in the system. Contributor to the e-commerce and order processing features. (AWS/Cloud Foundry/Spring/Java/Redis/jOOQ/MySql)
• Built a real-time, end-to-end face detection and face recognition system for a Level 11 internal context-aware project.
• Developed the face recognition backend using transfer learning on Google’s Facenet model; face detection done on Kinect and Raspberry Pi on the edge.
• Vaccine Cold Chain Monitoring: Key technical team member architecting, designing and implementing a cloud-based, big data analytics driven system to improve management of vaccine supply chains in developing countries for Intellectual Ventures lab.

Graduate Research Assistant

Confidential, Seattle

Responsibilities:

• Led development of hardware and software systems to extend the sensing capabilities of mobile devices.
• An ARM7/ATMega328p-based battery-powered, Bluetooth-enabled interfacing device to enable communication between mobiles and sensors that have only low-level interfaces.
• Confidential Sensors: Part of the Open Data Kit ( Confidential ) tool suite, Confidential Sensors is an Android framework that simplifies development of mobile sensing applications by abstracting away communication channel- and sensor-specific complexities.
• Led development and lab validation of two Android-based medical devices built using Confidential Sensors and Confidential .
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team of public health experts and technologists to identify, develop, and deploy technologies for low and middle income countries. Led development of mobile, sensor-based systems and AWS-hosted backend to address problems in these sectors and deployed them in developing countries in collaboration with in-country partners. Worked with partners to commercialize and build in-country capacity to develop hardware/software and provided technical support to end-users. Key technologies include:
• Temperature sensors connected to mobile phones to monitor refrigerators used to store vaccines. Temperature deviation alerts and periodic reports are sent from phones to a server hosted on AWS that is accessible over a web browser. Supervisors get real time alerts and access the server to monitor the vaccine supply chain.
• Built a RFID, sensors and machine learning-based system to identify and track exercises done using dumbbells.
• Mentored students and provided technical consulting to public health organizations.

Principal Staff Engineer and Senior Staff Engineer

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Led and conducted research in the areas of mobile/ubiquitous computing, embedded systems, multimodal (visual plus voice) mobile systems, service-oriented architectures for mobile Internet. Key projects included:
• Sensors and smartphone-based workout monitoring system.
• Distributed, power-aware content management for mobile devices with multiple network interfaces. Enables XM/Sirius radio-like experience based on just-in-time content downloads. Commercialized in Eastern Europe.
• Programmable, mobile RFID platform used as remote control for RFID-enabled home appliances.
• Client and server systems to enable voice modality in mobile apps and mobile browser.
• Enterprise architectures enabling web services to seamlessly support different types of mobile devices.
• Led collaborations with researchers in academia and industry.
• Hosted training workshops in academia on Confidential ’s embedded Linux mobile platforms.
• Participated in standardization activities in areas relevant to Confidential ’s businesses.
• Served as a member of Confidential ’s patent review committee.

Software Engineer

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Developed wireless communication systems and network security products for Confidential ’s 2-way radio systems.