Bio
What's in a name? Not much, except that mine tends to intimidate those who are unfamiliar with the way its pronounced! My name in the IPA phonetic notation would be ə·'rʊɳ sʊ·'brə·məɳi·jən (That is roughly A-roon Su-bra-mani-yan in "plain English"!). Born in Mumbai (Bombay), India, I spent the greater part of my childhood in the western state of Gujarat. I did most of my schooling in the town of
Vadodara. I went on to pursue my
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electronics and Communications from S. S.
Engineering College located in the coastal town of Bhavnagar. I had my first exposure to research
(specifically robotics) under the guidance of Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee at the
Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology in New Delhi. After the completion of my BE I continued to work
with Prof. Mukherjee as a Research Associate for about a year working on an
on-going project called
Massively Parallel Binary Systems.
I joined Syracuse University as a graduate student in the MS in Electrical Engineering program in Fall 2004. My research project during this period (at the Syracuse Medical Imaging Research Group) was on image reconstruction. We were able to achieve high resolution 3D reconstruction from serial images of a murine heart acquired through a laser scanning microscope (LSM).
I am now a PhD candidate; my thesis advisor is Prof. Pramod Varshney. My research involves fusion of data from heterogeneous sensors the application of which is focused toward personnel detection and activity classification.
My research page has a brief description of my current and past research along with a list of my publications. I am also an amateur photographer and my Nikon D50 is the best $500 I have invested so far! I hope your visit here will be/was helpful - especially if you are another grad student taking a "short break" :-)
Local Stuff
Syracuse, NY is rather infamous for its weather; we consistently win the Golden Snowball Award! You can access the local news here. The University, however, has its own student run newspaper called The Daily Orange. Syracuse is one of the few towns in the US that has a decent bus service called Centro - it is the reason why getting from one point to another in the city is affordable and (to a degree) convenient, even in inclement weather.
If you have comments or questions, please send me an email. Thanks!
