Melwin James Poovakottu

Melwin James Poovakottu

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Experience

  • Pixalate Graphic

    Pixalate

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    Los Angeles, California

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    Greater Los Angeles Area

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    United Arab Emirates

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley Graphic

    University of California, Berkeley

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    Completed coursework in:
    - Statistical Methods for Data Analytics (using R)
    - Research Design and Analysis for Data Analytics
    - Storing and Retrieving Data (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Storm, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Python)
    - Machine Learning (application of numerous predictive models: Random Forests, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, etc)
    - Field Experiments and Causality (Research design and implementation for conducting field experiments to determine causality)
    - Data…

    Completed coursework in:
    - Statistical Methods for Data Analytics (using R)
    - Research Design and Analysis for Data Analytics
    - Storing and Retrieving Data (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Storm, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Python)
    - Machine Learning (application of numerous predictive models: Random Forests, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, etc)
    - Field Experiments and Causality (Research design and implementation for conducting field experiments to determine causality)
    - Data Visualization (static and interactive visualizations using D3 and Tableau/ Qlik to tell stories with data)
    - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (TensorFlow based language models and classification techniques using LSTM, RNN, CNN Attention Network)
    - Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

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    Activities and Societies: Member of Paul Merage School of Business Soccer team Member of Paul Merage Technology Association Member of Paul Merage Entrepreneurs Association

    Courses Taken:

    Algorithm Design
    Statistics
    Advanced System Software
    Information Retrieval
    Applied Software Design
    Web Application Design
    Net Enabled Embedded Systems
    Management of Innovation
    Managerial Finance

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    Activities and Societies: Member of organizing committee for “ROBO-TEK” event at college technical festival COLOSSEUM-09. "ROBO-TEK"​ involved creating robots and competing against each other. Member of the division soccer team

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • General Secretary

    Bhandup parish youth council

    ● Blood donation camps, free health checkup for poor, station cleaning
    ● Door to door cake selling during Christmas
    ● Door to door old newspaper collection and reselling
    ● Made a record profit of $945 (Rs. 56,438) during my tenure.

  • Volunteer

    Dharma Rescue for Abandonned Dogs

    Animal Welfare

Publications

  • Low power FPGA design

    ● The main focus was to lower down the power consumption to its minimum.
    ● Started with a design of single Basic Logic Element and Configurable logic Blocks on transistor level.
    ● Ideal sizing of all the transistors was done for minimum power consumption and also incorporated low power technique like Gated Clock.

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Projects

  • Connectifier Business Plan

    - Present

    Analyzed the market potential for a new product, conducting market validation campaigns.

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  • Implementation of Operating System Software on Nachos OS

    - Present

    - Implementing threading and priority donation scheduling algorithms on Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System (Nachos).

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  • Search Engine for ics.edu domain

    Develop and implement web crawlers, indexer and sorter.
    Develop techniques for text processing and document indexing.
    Develop and optimize user interface.

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  • Low power FPGA design

    ● Key member for the project ideation, conception, formulation, design, and planning. The primary focus was to lower down the power consumption to its minimum.

    ● Started with design of single Basic Logic Element and Configurable logic Blocks on
    transistor level.

    ● Ideal sizing of all the transistors was done for minimum power consumption and also incorporated low power technique like Gated Clock.

    Other creators

  • Indoor Localization using BLE using Arduino

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    • Selected BLE over other devices in view of its advantages like low power, fast binding time, cost and durability.
    • Trilateration method implemented to locate the position of a microcontroller based device in a room from 3 BLE beacons.
    • Technology commercially viable for Indoor mapping and navigation.

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Honors & Awards

  • Employee recognition award

    Panasonic Avionics Corporation

    For the extraordinary contributions and dedication to achieve the goals and achievements of the company.

  • Engineering Management Fellowship

    University of California, Irvine

  • Merit-cum-Means scholarship

    Ministry of Minority Affairs, India

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Marathi

    Full professional proficiency

  • Malayalam

    Professional working proficiency

  • Gujarati

    Limited working proficiency

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