Ala Somarowthu, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Greater Philadelphia

Greater Philadelphia Area

 Automatic Seizure Detection in Dravet mice model. Analyzed two photon calcium imaging data of mice to investigate Dravet syndrome in mouse model.

Boston, MA, USA

 Designing a classifier to detect the attended speech source in competing talker conditions. Investigating neural correlates of the speech envelope in different conditions of listening (Active/Passive/Selective) with different situations (Quiet/Noise) using EEG. Implemented vocoder based frequency lowering algorithm to enhance the place of articulation.

Boston, MA, USA

 Developed a constrained clustering algorithm for content-based image retrieval. Retrieved images based on their visual similarity to a user-supplied query image. Demonstrated the results on texture retrieval using Gabor filter features.

Norwood, MA, USA

 Provided the front-end interface to MATLAB involving integration of video processing algorithms. Provided technical support directly to customers and worked with internal groups and individual engineers to bring customer issues to close. Investigated serial port behavior between transmissions. Verified a configuration/timing issue with synchronous.

Coimbatore, India

 Implemented three digital audio watermarking algorithms in time domain and wavelet domain using MATLAB. Analyzed the algorithms using the Stir Benchmark attacks to compare the performance. Measured the bit difference, bit error rate, correlation and signal to noise ratio for the algorithms with different attacks. Simulated LSB algorithm in VLSI by.

Hyderabad, India

 Underwent training in Control and Automation Group. Dealt with DAW card testing, Annunciator System Cards testing and CCTM cards testing.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioengineering

Specialization: Bioimaging and signal processing Thesis Title: Target Detection System in a Competing Talker Background Using Neural.

Master’S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Specialization: Signal processing Project title: Content based image retrieval

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Project title: Digital Audio Watermarking