Ashish Uthama
Education
Master of Applied Science 2005 –2007
Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Research (Thesis) on function Magnetic Resonance imaging (fMRI)
Bachelor of Engineering 1999 –2003
Electronics and Communication, PESIT, Bangalore
Experience
Quality Engineer, Image and Scientific data/ Image Processing Toolbox October 2008 – Present
The MathWorks, NatickMA
- Significant contributions to the design, development and documentationprocess.
- Complete ownership of qualification activities and creation of automated test suites.
- In-depth knowledge of HDF5, CDFand the TIFF file formats.Use of correspondinglibrary APIs (C/C++).
- Use of Intel Integrated Performance Primitives to multithread image processing routines (C/MEX).
- Key feature enabling image processing routines on large (>physical memory) image files (MATLAB code).
- The team (6 Dev, 2 QE, 1 Doc and 1 Usability) delivers the Image Processing Toolbox, a widely used component of the technical software package MATLAB. Development includes the Linux platform.
Application Support Engineer December 2007 – October 2008
The MathWorks, NatickMA
Direct interaction with engineers and researchers using The MathWorks products, including
- Image Processing Toolbox
- MATLAB Builder JA (Deployment and integration of MATLAB with Java)
- MATLAB Builder NE (Deployment and integration of MATLAB with the .NET framework)
- Parallel Computing Toolbox
- Sharpened ability to quickly trouble shoot and effectively solve diverse engineering problems
- Gained valuable insights into customer perspectives of products and features
Research Assistant September 2005 – October 2007
MS/MRI Research Group, UBC, Vancouver
- Open ended, self driven project funded by the MS/MRI Research Group
- Analysis and classification of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data (fMRI)
- Multi dimensional signal processing
- Dimension reduction, pattern recognition andclassification
- Efficient programming (MATLAB/C) to analyze large data sets on a self-administered Linux Cluster
Results presented in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (IEEE JSTSP 2008)
Design Engineer March 2004 – August 2005
Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India
ASIC design tools from HDL to final mask generation. UNIX development platform.
Development of a Perl module responsible for system configuration and reporting
Experience gained in the use of EDA tools, extensive use of PERL and shell scripts for automation
Software Engineer July 2003 – March 2004
Robert Bosch India Limited, Bangalore, India
Experience gained in the use of highly optimized C programsfor embedded systems
Skills and Traits
OS / Languages / Tools / ConceptsLinux
Windows / PERL, C, tcsh,
C++, Java. / MATLAB, Visual studio (C/C++), gcc, Emacs / Image processing, Algorithms and data structures,Data compression,Formatted File IO,MR imaging,
- Extensive experience with MATLAB and image processing in over 7 years
- Strong programming fundamentals, sound knowledge of data structures
- Knowledge of SQL and XML basics
- Avid Linux user, knowledge of scripting using tcsh (shell) and PERL
- Experience as a research lab administrator (BiSICL), Installed and maintained a 64 node Linux cluster
- Fast learner, have repeatedly proven the ability to ramp up quickly and contribute in fresh areas
- Have over 5 years of professional experience interacting with multi-site and multi-cultural teams
Experience as a responsible single contributor and as a team member in both professional and research environments
Academic Projects
Comprehensive details available online:
Translation and rotationally invariant descriptors based on spherical harmonics for MRIdatacharacterization (Masters Thesis) for shape and functional pattern analysis
A combined Wavelet-Fourier transform for characterizing 3D distributions
4D medical data compression using H.264 using additional motion vector coding
Robocode implementation of learning algorithms in Java
Analysis of 4D fMRI data with the SPM toolbox
Wired implementation of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
Fractal Image Modeling
Image compression algorithms (DCT, RLE, Entropy encoding)
Publications
A. Uthama, R. Abugharbieh, S. J. Palmer, A. Traboulsee, M. J. McKeown. “SPHARM-Based Spatial fMRI Characterization with Intersubject Anatomical Variability Reduction". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), special issue on fMRI Analysis for Human Brain Mapping, 2008
Uthama A, Abugharbieh R, Traboulsee A, McKeown MJ, “Invariant SPHARMfeatures for characterizing fMRI activations in ROIS while Minimizing effects of intersubject anatomical variability"International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, France 2008 (In person presentation)
MartinJ.McKeown, Ashish Uthama, Rafeef Abugharbieh, Samantha Palmer, Mechelle Lewis and Xuemei Huang, “Shape (But Not Volume) Changes in the Thalami in Parkinson Disease”, BioMed Central Neuroscience, 2008
Uthama A, Abugharbieh R, Traboulsee A, McKeown MJ, “Invariant SPHARM Shape Descriptors for Complex Geometry in MR Region of Interest Analysis” 29th Annual International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2007, pp. 1322-1325, France 2007
References (Contact details available upon request)
Mr. John Evans, Team Lead and Developer, Image and Scientific file formats, The MathWorks
Dr. Rafeef Abugharbieh, Department of ECE, UBC, Vancouver Unavailable between July 10 – Aug 31
Dr. Anthony Traboulsee, Department of Neurology, UBC, Vancouver Unavailable between July 27 – Aug 22
Mr. Sriram Pratap, Manager, PQR, Texas Instruments India Ltd, Bangalore, India
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