Research Staff

Raghu received his B.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay in 1978, and his M.S. degree from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, in 1984. After graduating with a PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987, he worked initially at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and later at Colorado School of Mines, Golden until the year 2000. Most recently, Raghu was Head, R&D and IP Cell, as well as Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

Raghu spent 16 years in industry R&D. From 2000 to 2013, he held various leadership positions at IBM Research India. During the last 4 years of his tenure at IBM Research India, he served as Associate Director, where he led projects in the area of “Knowledge, Information, and Smarter Planet Solutions”, with a particular focus on emerging markets. He also served as a relationship manager for IBM’s services divisions such as IBM Global Process Services and IBM Business Services during this time. During 2014-15, Raghu worked at IBM T J Watson Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, where he was a technical leader for cognitive computing research. He was also Program Manager, Financial Services, Xerox Research Centre India, during 2015-16.

Raghu has published about 170 papers in journals and conferences, many with a very high citation count. He has filed over 40 patent disclosures at the US Patent Office. He has been recognized as a Master Inventor by IBM and has served on the Technology Council of the IBM Academy of Technology. Raghu is also a Fellow of IEEE and the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE).

His research encompasses many aspects of machine learning, computer vision, text analytics, artificial intelligence, and data mining.

Email: kraghu (at) iisc.ac.in

Abhay received the B.E. degree in  Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani in 1996; the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University in 2000 and the PhD degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from IISc Bangalore in 2015.

From 2000 to 2005, he was with Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington (USA), where he designed and implemented physical layer algorithms for  cellular communication. From 2006 to 2009, he was with AllGo Embedded Systems, Bangalore, in the area of video signal processing and  emerging personal area network wireless technologies. From 2015 to 2016, he was a part of systems team at Qualcomm India, Bangalore.

His research interests include sparse signal processing, machine learning, wireless communications and statistical signal processing.

Email: abhays (at) iisc.ac.in

Arun received the B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Holy Mary Institute of Technology and Science, Hyderabad in 2006, his M.Tech. in Information Technology from the University of Hyderabad in 2008, and his Ph.D in Engineering Sciences from the Homi Bhabha National Institute at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research in 2013.

Prior to joining IISc, he was a Marie-Curie postdoctoral Fellow at ResilTech s.r.l, Pisa. He also worked in industry at Cavium Networks and Progress Software.

His current research areas include: Software engineering, software verification and validation, software reliability, cyber-security, and embedded systems.

Email: barun (at) iisc.ac.in

Ashish was awarded the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune in 2009 and the PhD from the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2016. His PhD work was titled “Design and practical implementation of novel, low cost, commercially viable Active EMI filters for mitigation of conducted EMI in switched mode power converters.”

His research interests include design for electromagnetic compatibility, switched mode power converters, active EMI filters, sensor analog front-end design, industrial instrumentation and energy harvesting techniques.

Email: ashishj (at) iisc.ac.in