Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Qualifications - Gate
Fellowships
Posterpresentations
Futuregoals
Publications
Volunteer Experience
Projects
Training
Motivation
Timeline
Hi, I’m

Parul Rani

Signal Processing Engineer
Pune,MH
Parul Rani

Summary

I am passionate about advancing the field of signal processing, and my future goal is to contribute significantly to the development and implementation of innovative technologies. Furthermore, I aspire to bridge the gap between academia and industry by translating cutting-edge research into practical applications. My objective is to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, including scientists, engineers, and healthcare professionals, to bring about real-world solutions that positively impact.

An enthusiastic, adaptive, and fast-leaning person with a broad and acute interest in the field of biomedical signal processing, I particularly enjoy collaborating with scientists and researchers from different disciplines to develop new skills and solve new challenges.

Overview

4
years of professional experience

Work History

Altair Infrasec Private Limited

Signal Processing Engineer
05.2024 - Current

Job overview

  • Developed real-time signal processing algorithms for advanced audio systems.
  • Collaborated with teams to deliver optimized signal filtering and classification models.

CSIR-CSIO

Senior Research Fellow
04.2021 - 04.2024

CSIR-Central Scientific Instrumentation Organization

Project Assistant III
10.2018 - 3 2020

Job overview

  • EMG-based below-elbow Prosthetic hand

Prasar Bharti

Research Trainee

Job overview

  • Training on broadcasting and related fields such as outdoor broadcasting, satellite communication and uplink & downlink chains, news production and transmission
  • Duration: 6 weeks

Sofcon India Pvt. Ltd

Summer Trainee

Job overview

  • Summer training on embedded technology (Atmega8 microcontroller)
  • Duration: 6 weeks

Education

Academy of Scientific And Innovative Research
CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh India

Ph.D. from Biomedical Signal Processing
04.2001

University Overview

  • 8.54 GPA/CGPA

Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies & Research

Master of Technology from Digital Communication

University Overview

  • GATE Qualified: 2014, 2015
  • GPA: Degree percentage: 86.10%

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics and Communication

University Overview

GPA: Degree percentage: 71.53%

Skills

Active electrode development

Data acquisition

Hardware developments

Feature engineering

Time-frequency domain analysis

Frequency domain analysis

Machine learning

Deep learning

Python

LabVIEW

Arduino

MATLAB

C

Multisim

Accomplishments

  • Best Paper, Best paper award for the paper Performance Analysis of Parametric Quadrature Amplitude Modulation in AWGN at BVICAM -2017 on the 11th INDIACom; INDIACom-2017; IEEE Conference
  • NET for Lectureship, 2019

Affiliations

  • IEEE, Graduate Student Member, R-10 Asia Pacific Region, 2019
  • American Physical Society, Graduate Student Researcher, 2022

Qualifications - Gate

  • 2014
  • 2015

Fellowships

  • AICTE GATE Fellowship, 2015 - 2017
  • CSIR Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR-SRF), 2021 - Present

Posterpresentations

  • Multi-Channel Electromyogram controlled multi-Degree of Freedom Below Elbow Prosthesis, Indo-French workshop on robotics for Rehabilitation (Robo-Rehab 2019)
  • An approach for of multifinger myoelectric hand with implementation Proportional grip force, India International science festival 2020 (Conclave on Assistive Technologies and Divyangjan)
  • Indigenous Non-Invasive Jelly-less electromyogram (EMG) acquisition system, IEEE AcSIR CSIO Student Branch

Futuregoals

I am passionate about advancing the field of biomedical signal processing, and my future goal is to contribute significantly to the development and implementation of innovative technologies that enhance healthcare diagnostics and rehabilitation. Furthermore, I aspire to bridge the gap between academia and industry by translating cutting-edge research into practical applications. My objective is to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, including scientists, engineers, and healthcare professionals, to bring about real-world solutions that positively impact patient care.

Publications

  • P. Rani, S. Pancholi, V. Shaw, M. Atzori and S. Kumar, Enhancing Gesture Classification Using Active EMG Band and Advanced Feature Extraction Technique, IEEE Sensors Journal, 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3344700
  • Parul Rani, Sidharth Pancholi, Vikash Shaw, Manfredo Atzori, and Sanjeev Kumar, Enhanced EMG based Hand Gesture Classification in Real-World Scenarios: Mitigating Dynamic Factors with Tempo-Spatial Wavelet Transform and Deep Learning, 2023, Accepted in IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics
  • Parul Rani, Sidharth Pancholi, Suraj Pandey, Vikash Shaw, Manfredo Atzori, and Sanjeev Kumar, Explainable AI-Guided optimization of EMG channels and features for precise hand gesture classification: a SHAP-based study, 2023, Under review IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics
  • Rani, P., Shaw, V., Kumar, Y., Jha, R.K., Kumar, S., A KNN-Based Approach for Myoelectric Arm, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing, 2021, Springer, Singapore, 10.1007/978-981-33-4501-0_29
  • Parul Rani, Sidharth Pancholi, Vikash Shaw, Manfredo Atzori, and Sanjeev Kumar, Investigating the Real-Time Performance of Hjorth Secant Line Features Across Multiple Days in EMG Prosthesis Control, 2024, Under review in CBMS 2024

Volunteer Experience

Proctor, IEEE AcSIR-CSIO-Chandigarh

Projects

EMG-based below-elbow Prosthetic hand, CSIR-Central Scientific Instrumentation Organization, Chandigarh, Project Assistant III, 10/01/18 - 03/01/20 Investigation of Radio Over Fiber Link based on Dual-Polarization Mach-Zahnder modulation, M.Tech Project The system analyses the test face image and recognizes the person using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based on the store database, B.Tech Project Developed a robot that follows the black path by infrared led using Embedded C, Atmega8 microcontroller, Internship

Training

  • Research Trainee, Prasar Bharti, Delhi, Training on broadcasting and related fields such as outdoor broadcasting, satellite communication and uplink & downlink chains, news production and transmission, 6 weeks
  • Sofcon India Pvt. Ltd, Summer training on embedded technology (Atmega8 microcontroller), 6 weeks

Motivation

An enthusiastic, adaptive, and fast-leaning person with a broad and acute interest in the field of biomedical signal processing, I particularly enjoy collaborating with scientists and researchers from different disciplines to develop new skills and solve new challenges.

Timeline

Signal Processing Engineer

Altair Infrasec Private Limited
05.2024 - Current

Senior Research Fellow

CSIR-CSIO
04.2021 - 04.2024

Project Assistant III

CSIR-Central Scientific Instrumentation Organization
10.2018 - 3 2020

Academy of Scientific And Innovative Research

Ph.D. from Biomedical Signal Processing
04.2001

Research Trainee

Prasar Bharti

Summer Trainee

Sofcon India Pvt. Ltd

Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies & Research

Master of Technology from Digital Communication
01.2017

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics and Communication
01.2014
Parul RaniSignal Processing Engineer