A. G. Ramakrishnan

Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan
200 px A G Ramakrishnan
Born	Ramakrishnan (1958-02-14) 14 February 1958 Bangalore, India
Other names	Ram
Alma mater	IIT, Madras
Occupation	Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Science
Years active	1992−present

Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received the Manthan Award 2014 for his project, Gift of New Abilities.

Biography

Ramakrishnan is a graduate of PSG College of Technology. He obtained his M Tech (Electrical Engineering) and Ph D (Biomedical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Currently, he heads the Medical intelligence and language engineering lab at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. His research areas are speech processing, Speech synthesis, Optical character recognition, Handwriting recognition, Machine listening and Pattern recognition. He was interviewed by Bhasha India for his contributions to Indic computing.

Professional activities

• General Chair, Ninth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2014)
• Editorial Board, Current Science.
• General Chair, International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2011), Manipal, India, Dec. 10-12, 2011.
• Board of Studies, International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore.

Honours

• Manthan Award 2014 under the category e-inclusion and accessibility.
• Prof. M. Anandakrishnan Award by INFITT at 12th International Tamil Internet Conference, 2013, Univ. of Malaya.
• Sir Andrew Watt Kay Young Researcher's Prize from Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow, 1992

See also

• Medical intelligence and language engineering lab
• Optical character recognition
• Handwriting recognition
• Speech synthesis
• Speech analysis

External links

• A G Ramakrishnan's Home Page
• Enabling the blind to access printed content, Mint, Oct 27, 2014.
• A G Ramakrishnan's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
• Digitising Tamil books is still a big challenge, The Hindu, Jan. 17, 2014.
• Publications by A.G. Ramakrishnan, at ResearchGate
• Technology goes that extra MILE, Jan. 6, 2014.
• A G Ramakrishnan's Academia.edu profile.
• Workshop on Multilingual Technologies, Punjabi University, Patiala.
• Workshop on “Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition”, R. V. College of Engineering, April 15, 2013.