Abhisek Ukil: Resume

Education

• Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa  along with ESKOM, South Africa's National Power Utility, research stay (2005) at Univ. of California, Los Angeles
  Ph.D.  (2004 - 2006).
  (Signal Processing for Power Systems Application)                                                                                                         (Thesis: 'Abrupt Change Detection in Automatic Disturbance Recognition in Electrical Power Systems').
  
• University of Bolton, Bolton, UK  along with  South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
  M.Sc. (Electronic Systems & Engineering Management) (2002 - 2004) First Class Honours.
  
• Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
  B.E. (Electrical Engineering) (1996 - 2000) First Class Honours. 
   

Professional Experience

• Research Scientist (Full-time) at 'ABB Corporate Research', Baden-Daettwil, Switzerland, (Oct. 2006 - till date).
  Research scientist and project leader at 'Intergrated Sensor Systems' group working on automation devices, focusing on advanced R&D on embedded signal processing, machine learning, intelligent systems.
  
• R&D Engineer (Part-time) at Univ. of South-Westphalia, 'INNOPSE Project Group', Germany, (Jan. 2003 - Oct. 2003).
  Worked as R&D Engineer for Application Service Provider (ASP) technology solutions.
  
• Software Engineer (Full-time) at 'Interra Software (India) Pvt. Ltd.', India, (July 2000 - June 2002).
  Worked as design & developer for application software and web development.
  

Teaching Experience

• Teaching B.Tech students Electrical-Technology II (AC circuits & 3-Phase systems) at Tshwane Univ. of Technology, South Africa, (January, 2005 - June, 2005).
  

Achievements

• Listed in Marquis Who'sWho in the World, 2009.
• Winning Chemometrics Calibration Challenge ('Shoot-Out') held at the 11th Conf. on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, CAC08, Montpellier, France, July 2008.
• Winning 'Best Result before Five' prize in the MATLAB Gene Splicing Programming Contest, by The MathWorks Inc., Novmeber, 2007.
• Best Paper Award at the Second World Congress on Lateral-Computing (WCLC 2005), Bangalore, India, December 2005 for the research paper "Use of Intelligent Agents to Implement Power Quality in the Mining Sector".
• Grant from Univ. of California, Los Angeles at Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, 2005.
• Full-time Postgraduate Scholarship and National Research Foundation (NRF) Grant for doing Ph.D. in South Africa (2004-2006).
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for pursuing M.Sc. in Germany. (2002-2004).
• Indian National Scholarship in 1994.
• Medal in All India Science Talent Search Test, 1994.
   

Professional Activities & Memberships

• Member of IEEE.
• In editorial board of Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering, (ISSN: 1874-4761).
• In editorial board of International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion (IJPEC), (ISSN-print: 1757-1154, ISSN-online: 1757-1162). 
• External expert reviewer for National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa.
• Journal reviewer: IEEE Trans. Instru. Meas., IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Energy Economics, Elsevier, Int. J. of Elect. Power and Energy System, Elsevier, NeuroImage, Elsevier, Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier.  
• Conference reviewer: IECON'08, Florida, USA; EUSIPCO'08, Lausanne, Switzerland;  ICETET'08, Nagpur, India; WCLC'05, Bangalore, India.
  

Tutorials, Talks & Presentations

• Abhisek Ukil, "Innovative Application of Signal Processing Techniques in Electrical Power Systems", Invited by Power Engineering Chapter, IEEE Calcutta Section; Talk presented at: Electrical Engineering Dept., Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, April 2006.   [Link]
  
• Abhisek Ukil, "Application of Abrupt Change Detection in Automatic Disturbance Recognition in Electrical Power Systems", Tutorial presented at (included in conf. proc.): 2nd World Congress on Lateral-Computing-WCLC'05, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2005.   [PDF]
  
• Abhisek Ukil, "Signal Processing Techniques for Power Applications", Talk presented at Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, India, December 2005.   [Link]
  
• Abhisek Ukil, "Automatic Analysis of Disturbance Data", Invited Talk presented at: Southern California Edison, Los Angeles, USA, July 2005.

Research Interests 

• Signal processing and applications
• Machine learning and applications
• Power systems
• Embedded systems, Adaptive control, System modeling and simulation
• Computational neuroscience & biology
• Algorithm development, Games & Game theory, Number theory & Sequences

Computational Skills

• Programming & Design:-
  MATLAB, C, Assembly, LabView, Java, C++, VB, VC++, Delphi, Fortran77
  
• DSPs & Microcontrollers:-
  TMS320VC5510, TMS320VC5509, TMS320C50, TMS320C30, TMS320C25, Code Composer Studio (Texas Instruments)
  Blackfin, ADSP-21061, EZ-KIT Lite (Analog Devices)
  ATMEL AVR, Intel 8085, Motorola 16-bit educational toolkit
  Voice-Extreme toolkit (Sensory Inc.)
  FFMC-16 (Fujitsu)
  
• Simulation:-
  Simulink, P-Spice, Dymola-Modelika, AgentBuilder
  
• Operating Systems:-
  Windows (9x, NT, 2000, XP), Linux (SuSe, Redhat, Fedora), Dos
  
• Development Framework/Architecture:-
  J2EE, MS Exchange 2000 Server, Active Directory, .NET (basic), CORBA (IDL)
  
• WWW Technology:-
  HTML/XML, ASP, VBScript, JSP, Javascript, Java Servlets, Java Web Services, JAXP/SAX for Java-XML
  
• Servers:-
  IIS, Apache-TOMCAT, NT Server, MS Exchange 2000 Server, Application Server (FORTE, Sun One Server)
  
• Database:-
  MS-Access, SQL Server, Database FOXPRO, dBase, Web Storage System (MS Exchange 2000 Server)
  
• Others:-
  SQA Suite (Rational Rose), InstallShield, etc.