Ganesh Ram Gururajan

+44-7436219921 ganeshramgururajan@gmail.com Ganesh Ram | LinkedIn

EDUCATION

2022 – 2023 Newcastle University, United Kingdom

MSc in Microelectronics Systems and Devices - Distinction
Top performer in Microelectronics Design Tools and Advanced Device Fabrication

2014 – 2018 Anna University, Chennai, India

Bachelor’s degree in Electricals and Electronics Engineering – First class

Relevant Projects

• Physical Design – Standard cell design, layout and simulation of Inverter, Tristate Inverter, D Flip Flop and NAND Gate.
• Cleanroom – Fabrication and testing of PN Junction diodes using Chlorine Chemistry, lithography, ultrasonic cleaning,
3D profiling, etc.
• FPGA – Programming of Audio Codec on Altera DE1 SoC, FIR Filter Design, Serial to Parallel Adaptor, I2C protocol.
• Assembly (Embedded systems) – Simulation of Scheduler and Dispatcher program for thread switching on EASY68K,
Foreground and Background tasks, I/O programming of switches and push buttons, Software and Hardware Interrupts
vectors and service routine programs.
• Python (Dissertation at Newcastle University - Ongoing) – Tkinter application for generating Graphs, Charts and Plots
using Pandas, Seaborn and Matplotlib to automate reports obtained from Keysight B1500A Characterization Analyzer.

EXPERIENCE

Pragmatic Semiconductor October 2023 – February 2024

Graduate Validation Engineer Cambridge, UK
• Temperature Sensor characterization, Thermal response, tolerance and sensitivity analysis, PCB design in Altium, Data
Analysis of test results using Python and Excel, report generation, Test Development and automation in Python,
instrumentation and control for data collection and acquisition. Clean room experience with Wafer level testing of IC
and process control monitoring sites, probe station control using MPI Sentio, script development for automated full
wafer testing of multiple 200mm wafers. Experience in ESD safety and handling lab equipment like Oscilloscope, bench
power supply, functions generators, soldering station, LCR meter, magnetic stirrers, and digital multimeters.

Qzense Labs March 2022 – May 2022

Data Science Intern Bangalore, India
• Developed Machine Learning and Deep Learning models using Pytorch for Infrared Light-Based classification system and
Image classification respectively.
• Developed and maintained the entire system on Amazon Web Services.
• Developed Android Application (MVP) using Flutter to demonstrate and test data collection methods, included Camera,
JSON, HTTP requests, State Management, Navigation, Menu, etc.
• Worked on file handling of thousands of images, versions, processed images, storage, and management using Python.
• Developed and automated emailing of daily, weekly, and monthly reports containing graphs and charts in Python.

Motorola Solutions Pvt Ltd March 2021 – Feb 2022

Data Scientist Bangalore, India
• Integrated existing classical IVR systems with Amazon Web Services, using AWS Lex, Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB,
CloudWatch, triggers, CRON jobs.
 • Secured the system and controlled access using IAM.
• Approximated the voice recognition system using CMU’s open-source pronunciation vectors to recognize nonbiblical
names and developed algorithms to search entries of 100 thousand rows within a given time on AWS lambda.
• Extensively used Python and associated libraries, Pandas, Numpy, Seaborn and Matplotlib for visualization.
• Analysed and presented major issues in the service design, proposed ways to utilize Machine Learning to minimize trivial
tickets wrongly tagged under high priority.

Proton Auto ML (US) August 2020 – December 2020

Product Lead Intern Remote, India
• Lead a team of interns in developing AutoML product, including but not limited to Auto Machine Learning, Auto
Segmentation and Clustering, Auto Time Series.
• Developed automatic Data and column detection, auto feature engineering and data cleaning, auto metric system, auto
transforms, serialization, automation of the entire Data Science Life Cycle using Python and AWS on EC2 instance.
• Wrote scripts for automatic testing of data sets, error handling, reports of errors and accuracies, automatic emailing,
and debugging the errors based on the generated reports.

Valkan Engineering Pvt Ltd August 2018 – May 2019

PV Solar Design Engineer Chennai, India
• Designed and developed government and private solar power projects in the range of Megawatts and Gigawatts using
CAD tools.
• Analysed and extrapolated the lifetime expectancy and ROI of the power plant using PVSyst.
• Procured and negotiated materials required for the plant construction, commission, and testing.
• Developed mobile application in Java for calculation of angles and directions to reduce manual calculation.
• Surveyed and collected data from sites, developed accurate 3D models demonstrating shadows, placement of solar
panels, wiring, trenches, transformer integration, inverters, junction boxes, etc.
• Proposed ways to automate the CAD design time using Python and Machine Learning.

Skill Set

• Programming Languages – Python, Dart, Assembly, VHDL, HTML, CSS, JS.

• Cadence Virtuoso – LVS, DRC, Layout, Schematic, ADE, testbench, Standard Cell Design, Propagation delay and analysis.
• FPGA – VHDL, testbench, ModelSim RTL simulation, block diagram, Altera development boards, Quartus Prime, device
programming using JTAG, PIN planning, TimeQuest.
• Data Science – Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Cleaning, Feature Engineering, Metrics, Cloud Integration and
Automation.
• Amazon Web Services – LAMBDA, EC2, IAM, Cloudwatch, DynamoDB, Lex, Simple Email and Message, Sagemaker.
• Other – Knowledge and Hands-on Experience in PN Junction device Fabrication, GIT, REST, OOPs.
• Soft Skills – Communicative, Team player, Problem-solving, Curiosity, Creativity, Critical thinking, Passionate and Reliable.