Books: Modern Methods of Speech Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995 (edited with Richard J. Mammone). Articles in Books: 1. 'The Use of Pitch Prediction in Speech Coding', Modern Methods of Speech Processing, edited by R.P. Ramachandran and R.J. Mammone, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-22, September 1995. 2. 'Quantization of Discrete Time Signals', The Digital Signal Processing Handbook, edited by V.K. Madisetti and D.B. Williams, CRC and IEEE Press, pp. 6-1--6-14, January 1998.
Research Experience
Teaching Assistant, McGill University, 1986-1987; Visiting Postgraduate Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara, January to June 1988; Postdoctoral Fellow, Speech Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, October 1990 to December 1992; Research Assistant Professor, CAIP Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, January 1993 to August 1997; Senior Speech Scientist, T-NETIX/SpeakEZ Inc, Piscataway, NJ, May 1996 to August 1997; Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, September 1997 to August 2006; Consultant, T-NETIX/SpeakEZ Inc, Piscataway, NJ, September 1997 to December 1997; Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, September 2006 to present.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (with great distinction), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1984; Master of Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1986; Ph.D., McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1990.
Background
Born in Bangalore, India, on July 12, 1963. Hometown: Montreal, Canada. Married to Roopashri Ramachandran. Has one son, Ujwal Prithvi Ramachandran. Research interests include digital signal processing (particularly filter design and multirate signal processing), data communications, speech processing (coding, enhancement, and speaker identification), image processing (restoration), and pattern recognition.
Miscellany
Membership in Professional Societies: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Strathmore's Who's Who (by invitation).