myWork
Director of AI/ML, Zippin
Jan 2021 - Present
Director of AI Research, Slyce
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Principal System Architect, Faraday Future
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Six words for now - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL) - More to come.....
Lead Product Engineer, Polyera
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
Polyera was my first foray into the startup world, having worked inside the comforts of well-oiled machine that is Motorola for sometime. "Starting from scratch" was really redefined for me here. Setting up EE lab, negotiating licenses for CAD software and establishing relationships with PCB fab houses & EMS were all part of the things I did at Polyera. Engineering side wasn't smooth transition as well. I had to sharpen my pencils on the digital design and the power management; I had been focussing on RF & antenna design before this, mind you. I was able to 'successfully' (after numerous close calls and late nights) design and implement the hardware system in a relatively short amount of time. Here is a video demonstration of it.
Thanks to all my colleagues, who helped me along the way, I ended up doing one things really well to doing multiple things reasonably good. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Polyera. It was incredibly exciting, challenging and fun at the same time.
Antenna Design Engineer, Google+Motorola Mobility+Qualcomm
Nov 2009 - Nov 2014
My focus has been on RF & antenna design having worked on the complete product development on multiple products - defining antenna architectures, simulating & designing antennas, testing & validating them at system level. I have also spent considerable amount of time debugging desense and mitigating noise issues. I also thoroughly enjoyed working on Tx/Rx RF front end designs.
I am proud X-Motorolan. When I decided to leave Motorola, I really felt like I was graduating from a great school of Engineering, more than anything. I am very fortunate to have been mentored by such immensely talented people. All my designs to date still carry Motorola DNA.
Research Assistant, Antenna and Propagation Lab, UMass Amherst
Jan 2007 - May 2008.
I worked under the guidance of Prof. Ramakrishna Janaswamy. He is really my Zen master. He imbibed the profound philosophy of open mind in me.
"Only a mind that knows it doesn't know can see the world clearly."
For my thesis, I formulated a local method based on the stochastic process, the Ito formula, and Monte Carlo simulation for computing field in electrostatic and electrodynamic propagation problems. I also designed, implemented and tested numerical algorithms for solving Laplace, Poisson, Helmholtz and parabolic equations in two and three dimensions using MATLAB.