Abishek Balu Kothandaraman | Embedded Systems

About

Energetic and Skilled Embedded Systems Developer with passion towards Internet-of-Things, Automation and Robotics

I have always dreamt of digitalizing the day-to-day activities and developing devices that are of diurnal usage to mankind. This fantasizations of mine from a very young age made me pursue a career in the field of Computers.

This vision of mine since childhood proved to be a driving force in the pursuit of publishing an ideation paper titled "Biometric Based Bus Ticketing System" at an International Conference in February 2018 at Aurangabad, India during my final year of Undergraduate School.

I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Embedded Systems at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, since when my interest towards Internet-of-Things and Automation grew. This was also one of the times, where I learnt that Machine Learning is to play a vital role in the future of my fantasies. It is my strong belief that Internet-of-Things, Automation and Machine Learning combined together shall overcome any problem and can bring in many more innovations in the field of Information Technology which I wish to be a part of.

Education

M.Sc, Embedded Systems

Uppsala University, Sweden.

B.E, Electronics and Communication

Anna University, Chennai, India

Experience

Graduate Thesis Student

Uppsala University

Engaged in a research project with the Medical Microwave Engineering Group.

Assess the quality of muscles and optimize the sensor.

Pub Host

Vastmanlands-Dala Student Nation

Leading a team of 10, managing the pub with an approximate 200 guests.

Examine the inventory and report the same every night.

Entrepreneur

Liberins, Chennai, India

Directed the e-commerce venture of books for engineering students in Chennai, India, found by a group of 5 people in collaboration with the undergraduate school.

Being a channel between the Suppliers and Consumers, avoided the need of a warehouse, thereby reducing the cost of Investment.

Skills

Programming Languages

Ada

Python

C

C++

Embedded C

Web Development

HTML

CSS

PHP

React-Native

Database

Tools

Matlab/Simulink

Quartus

Technologies

Terminal

GitHub

Operating Systems

Fedora

Red Hat

Ubuntu

Windows

Projects

Smart Home Systems

November 2019 -- March 2020

Integrated the Smart Jar and the Automatic light control system in the same controller using LEGO Mindstroms EV3 hardware.

Intelligent Interactive Systems

May 2019

Detected Emotion and matched them with Artificially sythesized emotions with the utmost degree of possibility, using Machine Learning techniques: kNN, SVM, Random Forest and Neural Networks.

A pipeline was developed with two other teams, wher one team captures the facial expression of an image and extracts emotion points and the other team would use the machine learning model and deliver the final output.

Human Computer Interaction

January 2019

Designed and developed a prototype of a Pulse Rate Monitoring System acquiring necessary feedback from the professor and other random people.

Weather Station

October 2018

Read the Temperature, Pressure and Humidity values using a Raspberry Pi.

Exhibited the same in a web-page.

Honors

Presented a webinar on the Importance on Higher Education to undergraduate students of Sri Sairam Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

The idea of our e-commerce venture of books, was selected as one of the top 3000 startup ideas among a total 0f 15000 ideas by IIM Calcutta Innovation Park

Volunteering

Event Co-ordinator

TEDxSriSairamIT, TEDxUppsalaUniversity

Led a team of 5, taking care of the basic requirements of the day.

Planned, Organized and Documented the entire event comprising 100 guests.

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