May 2005
Madurai district first rank in higher secondary examination
June 2005
Received Victoria Edward Award
July 2005
Received Amudha Surabhi Award
August, 2005
Joined Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) in Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai(Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai)
Took part in European Union Robotics Workshop organised by Thiagarajar Advanced Research Centre (TARC-TIFAC Core)
2006
Made a software that analyses and synthesizes circuits based on S-parameter network equation. Won First Prize in Exposoft'06 contest.
Made X-Robot, a prototype of excavation robot with 555 based infrared proximity detector and other sensors on it. Won First Prize in Institution of Engineers (I.E.) Design Contest 2006.
2007
Underwent training in RF design using Agilent ADS (Advanced Design Suite) in Thiagarajar Advanced Research Centre.
Made HuBo a humanoid robot prototype with two legs which can skate, had voice recognition interface. Won Second Prize in Whizard'07 , a hardware contest.
Made SmartHome a sppech based control for controlling home appliances with voice. Won Third Prize in Institution of Engineers (I.E.) Design Contest 2007
Made AudioPro, a software that performs Digital Audio Effects, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis. Won Best Algorithm Award in Exposoft'07.
Presented a technical paper entitled "Implementation of Tamil Speech Recognition based on Dynamic Time Warping" and won First Prize in Weecom'07 a paper presentation contest.
2007-2008
Proposal and project accepted for participation in Motorola Scholar Awards Programme 2007-2008 at FAER programme, M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. A tamil speech recognition based vending machine "You Speak!!! It Serves!!! " prototype, suitable for Ration System. This is based on implementation of MFCC and DTW algorithm in FPGA with QUARTUS II and NIOS II IDE with peripheral interfaces like RFID authentication, LCD display etc resembling a ATM machine. It could sell rice, wheat and other stuffs based on speech interface.
2008
Got Third Place among Top Programmers of TCE in Ergonoxis'08 TCE programming contest.
2005-2008
One of the editor of ECEMail, intradepartmental monthly magazine
2008
Event co-ordinator of Quest'08, a interschool cultural fest held at TCE, Madurai.
Industrial traning in VI Microsystems, Chennai on embedded systems.
2009
Chief editor of ECEMail, intradepartmental monthly magazine.
Final year project on Implementation of ARM processor based PLC, Used a PDA kit based on Intel XScale PXA 255 ARM Processor and a PIC18F452 board to realize an ARM based PLC with ladder diagram realization. Used that to demonstrate the working of a reverse engineered 6 degrees of freedom industrial pick and place robot. Under the guidance of my embedded guru Dr. K. Hariharan.
Worked at HoneyWell Technologies Solutions Limited (HTSL), Madurai as Engineering Trainee