Srivatsan Pallavaram

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Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE),
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), California, USA (June 2004)
Major (Signal Processing) GPA: 3.9/4.0

• Digital Image Processing
• Multimedia Compression
• Stochastic Processes
• Data Mining
• Matrix Analysis and Computation

• Gene classification using data mining, signal processing and neural networks
• Unsupervised segmentation of color-texture regions in images
• Design of an IIR multiple notch filter using an allpass filter
• De-noising medical images using Discrete Wavelet Transform

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communication Engineering
University of Madras, India (May 2002)
Class standing: top 5%
Project: Dynamically stopping iterations in Turbo Decoding

Technical Skills:

• Programming Languages: C, C++ (familiar)
• Applications: MATLAB, Advanced Design System (ADS)
• DSP Emulator Boards: Analog Devices' ADSP 2192 DSP processor
• Microprocessor Platforms: 8085 and 8086

Research & Teaching Experience:

• Graduate Student Researcher, Image Processing Research Laboratory,
  Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, April 2003 - present
  Advisor:Professor Sanjit Mitra
• Graduate Student Researcher, Haptic Soundscapes Research Laboratory,
  Dept. of Geography, September 2002 - September 2003
  Advisor: Professor Reginald Golledge
• Student Assistant, Haptic Soundscapes Research Laboratory,
  Dept. of Geography, October 2003 - December 2003
• DNA microarray image processing - Working on enhancement and segmentation of DNA microarray spots
• Gene classification using signal processing and neural networks:classification accuracy ~90%
• Reviewer on the panel for the journal: IEEE Potentials
• Worked on finding ways to dynamically stop iterations in turbo decoding, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, India (02-03). Our results were presented at a National Level Technical Symposium
• Worked on the analysis of ambient air pollutants in the city of Chennai (India) during 2000, results were published in Proc of National Conference on Pollution Prevention and Control, Nagpur, India
• First prize in working model contest - air quality indexer using microcontroller 8031, India, 02
• In-plant training at Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore, India (May 00)
• TEACHING: Teaching Asssitant (TA) to Prof. B.S. Manjunath for ECE178: Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing , winter 2004, University of California, Santa Barbara

  

Publications &
Presentations:

• S. Pallavaram, M. Carli, J. Berger, A. Neri, S.K. Mitra, "Spot identification in microarray images using Gauss-Laguerre wavelets", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, May 26-28, 2004. (pdf)
• M. Rice, R. Golledge, D. Jacobson, D. Jones, S. Pallavaram, “Axis Scalling and Symbolization Issues for Haptic Maps", the 100th AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 14-19 March 2004 [abstract (pdf)].
• M. Rice, R. Golledge, D. Jacobson, D. Jones, S. Pallavaram, “Evaluating Shapes Via a Non-Visual Computer Interface”, the 100th AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 14-19 March 2004[abstract (pdf)].
• M. Rice, D. Jacobson, R.G. Golledge, D. Jones, S. Pallavaram , "Object Size Discrimination and Non-visual Cartographic Symbolization", in Web Proceedings, American Congress of Surveying and Mapping 2003 Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Mar 30–Apr 02, 2003, http://www.acsm.net [full paper (pdf)]
• D. Jacobson, M. Rice, R.G. Golledge, D. Jones, P. Hayward, S. Pallavaram, "Cartographic Symbolization Issues for Haptic and Auditory Map Interfaces", Association of American Geographers (AAG) 99th Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 5-8, 2003
• Srivatsan PS, Anusha SR, “A novel technique for dynamically stopping iterations in turbo decoding”, National Level Symposium (APOGEE 02), Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India, 2002
• Senthilnathan T, Srivatsan PS, Anusha SR, Bhaskaran A, Rajan RD, “Analysis of ambient air pollutants in Chennai during the year 2000”, Proc National Conf Pollution Prevn. & Control, Nagpur, India, 2002
  

Honors & National Awards:

• Presidential Work-Study Research Scholarship, UCSB (02-03)
• Gold Medal and Rolling Shield for the Best All Rounder of the school, BSRKV, India (95-96)
• ‘President Scout Award’ (Rashtrapati Award) personally from the then President of India, New Delhi (94)
• ‘Governor Scout Award’ (Rajya Puraskar), India (93)

Affiliations & Extra Curricular Activities:

• Toastmasters International
• The Student Entrepreneurs Association (SEA), UCSB
• The Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management (CEEM), UCSB
• Certificate in Management Technology, India, '02
• Leader of the ECE department Quality Circle during my undergraduate studies, '00-'01
• Organizing Secretary, National Level Technical Symposium for the ECE Department, '00-'01
• Member of editorial boards for college newsletter and college souvenir, '00-'01

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DNA Sequence Analysis

• D. Anastassiou, “Genomic Signal Processing”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp 8-20, July 2001.
• P. Bernaola-Galvan, I. Grosse, P. Carpena, J.L. Oliver, R. Roman-Roland, H.E. Stanley, “Finding borders between coding and noncoding DNA regions by an entropic segmentation method”, Physical Review E, vol. 85(6), pp 1342-1345, 2000.
• Daniel Nicorici, John A. Berger, Jakko Astola, Sanjit K Mitra, “Finding borders between coding and noncoding DNA regions using recursive segmentation and statistics of stop codons”, Finnish Signal Processing Symposium (FINSIG'03), Tampere, Finland, pp. 231-235, May 19, 2003.
• Gene bank: http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/
• Bayesian network toolbox: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~murphyk/Software/BNT/bnt.html#features
  I.T. Jolliffe. Principal Component Analysis. Springer-Verlag, 1986.
• Qicheng Ma, Jason T. L. Wang and Cathy H. Wu ,"Application of Bayesian Neural Networks to Biological Data Mining: A Case Study in DNA Sequence Classification," Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Software
• Y. Wang, C-T Zhang and P. Dong. “Recognizing Shorter Coding Regions of Human Genes Based on the Statistics of Stop Codons”, Biopolymers, Vol. 63, 207-216, 2002
• M. Yan, Z-S. Lin and C-T. Zhang. “A new Fourier transform approach for protein coding measure based on the format of the Z curve”, Bioinformatics, Vol. 14, no. 8, 685-690, 1998
  C-T. Zhang, J. Wang. Nucleic Acids Res 2000, 28, 2804-2814
• Distribution of base pair repeats in coding and noncoding DNA sequences, N.V. Dakholyan et al, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 79, no. 25, Dec ’97
• Computing Linear Transforms of Symbolic Signals, Wang and Johnson
  

cDNA Microarray Image Processing

• Microarray image processing based on clustering and morphological analysis, Wu & Yan
• Quality control in Microarray image analysis, Kuklin et al
• Robust Microarray image analysis, Katzer et al
• Image metrics in the statistical analysis of DNA Microarray data, Brown et al
• A markov random field model of Microarray gridding. Katzer et al
• A novel method using edge detection for signal extraction from cDNA Microarray image analysis, Kim et al
• Fully automatic quantification of Microarray image data, Jain et al
• Dapple: Improved techniques for finding spots on DNA microarrays UW CSE Technical Report
• Microarray Image Processing based on clustering and morphological analysis, Wu & Yan
• Robust adaptive spot segmentation of DNA microarray images, Liew, yan & Yang
• An adaptive logical method for binarization of degraded document images, Yang & Yan
• Ratio based decisions and the quantitative analysis of cDNA microarray images, Chen et al
  

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Email:

srivathsan@ece.ucsb.edu