Dr. Ramakrishnan A. G.

Ramakrishnan A. G. is an integral part of our R&D team and also serving as a senior professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his Masters in Electrical Engineering and Ph D in Biomedical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has gradudated 18 Ph.D.s, 16 M.Tech.s by research, and guided over 100 M. Tech. projects at IISc. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, As the leader of a research consortium, he was instrumental in creating handwriting recognition technologies for eight Indian languages. He received Manthan award (South East Asia and Asia Pacific) twice for creating audio books for blind students through his OCR and TTS in Tamil and Kannada. His current areas of research include speech recognition in Indic languages, decoding of imagined words from EEG, brain functional connectivity analysis in modified states of consciousness and the study of the neural control and physiological mechanisms behind the health and therapeutic effects of deep breathing. For his earlier work on evoked potentials from leprosy patients, he had received Sir Watt Kay Young Researcher’s Prize from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bangalore India from May 2002 to August 2003.