Vivek Nittoor Email & Phone Number

Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Two granted US patents US10,585,946 B2 and US 11,955,988 B2.Nittoor Software Research Corporation is a software company focused on democratizing access to cyber insurance for businesses while dramatically reducing cyber insurance claims and payouts through AI & ML.We help insurance companies build a profitable low-risk cyber insurance portfolio by accurately assessing cyber risk while on-boarding business customers and helping their business customers reduce their cyber risk at an ongoing basis through the Andromeda InsurTech Platform.We help small businesses such as medical clinics by helping them increase their positive cyber behaviours, reduce their cyber risk and help them obtain cyber insurance at a very competitive premium through the Andromeda Business Platform.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nittoor Software Research (https://www.nittoor.com) is a software company focused on improving the wireless signal end user experience by developing a series of innovative products starting with CheckmySignal mobile app, CheckmySignal cloud software platform and Pragyanam intelligent Wi-Fi. Several patents pending and one granted US patent US10,585,946 B2.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. High performance computing, graph theory.2. Several patent applications filed while investigating product ideas/concepts.3. Provided consulting and design services for a machine learning startup. a. architected the main algorithmic engine for a image/video based machine learning context.b. developed high level mathematical models of the image/video machine learning algorithms, andoptimised for best performance on the target platform.c. managed the product development with team.d. the product prototype won an award at an industry event.e. Conducted patentability analysis for a product, and enabled the client to patent their IP.

Tokyo, Japan

1. Broad areas of research work included HPC, heterogenous computing including GPGPU, graph theory.2. My research involved extensive programming on supercomputers, and other parallel architectures using MPI, openMP and also CUDA to solve graph theoretic problems.3. Investigations in graph theory, theoretical Computer Science, algorithms and pure Mathematics.4. Presented my work at academic conferences at various locations around the world.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Managed and headed Media Processing Group in India - Played a very crucial role in building the team almost from scratch and getting some very important activities started.Activities carried out by the team over the years include:1. openMAX DL for various ARM cores2. Symbian and WinCE board support packages for various ARM boards and platforms3. Linux work for various ARM cores4. Benchmarking ARM cores5. Drivers for AudioDE, IEM(Intelligent Energy Manager), TrustZone (Security),6. Embedded Java Virtual machines, Java Run time debugger7. 2D/3D graphics drivers: openGL and openVG drivers for Mali55 GPU, openVG driver for Mali2008. SVGt, JSR226 and JSR287 software graphics stacks9. Graphics tools and SDK10. Software defined radio (baseband) for wireless protocols.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Role: Group Head, DSP & Multimedia. Setup team from scratch and took several activities from concept to implementation.The last 1.5 years of the role also involved a lot of Commercial activity and discussions with customers.Some of the activities of the group:A. Embedded Software (Most of these projects had an underlying embedded OS context)1. Audio, Compression: Optimized MP3 Codec, AAC Decoder, WMA Decoder, Dolby Digital (AC-3) Decoder on several embedded platforms including ARM.2. Surround Algorithms: Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker, S3S surround on embedded platforms including ARM.3. Speech Compression: G.723.1, G.723 GSM-AMR Codecs on several embedded platforms.4. Video Compression: MPEG-2 Codec, MPEG-4 simple profile Codec, H.264 baseline profile Codec on embedded platforms.5. Wireless: Complete (qualified) Bluetooth software stack for Digital camera.6. Application software for digital camera – Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP), USB Mass Storage Class. Optimization of real-time performance.B. Hardware1. Chip set design: Team participated in five video post processing chips in ~6 years (latest was for 0.13 micron TSMC process) for LCD-TV (picture quality improvement) along with colleagues in Japan.2. Hardware IPs: FFT for OFDM system, Reed Solomon Decoder implementation, Blind Channel Equalization, Equalizer for PRML (Partial Response Maximum Likelihood) ,TurboCodes.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Taught cryptography to masters students for two consecutive years

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

(It was called SAS then)1. Project handing responsibilities for embedded software implementation of MPEG-1 Video Decoder on SH-DSP processor for an important Japanese customer.2. Tracked the development of (what was then) a new emerging video compression standard (MPEG-4) and helped define the company strategy for the same.3. Was part of a company wide metrics program (Quality Management)4. Was responsible for tracking new product ideas, and standards and updating the strategy.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Development of embedded graphics and imaging software on high performance TI DSP1. Optimization of Image Processing algorithms on parallel DSP processor (TMS320C80 MVP).2. Parallelization of high performance PostScript RIP (2D graphics) software on MVP.3. Application programming for real-time OS.(JMI C Exec on MVP & 68K).4. Automated Regression Flow for the product on a Multi platform configuration.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Wide exposure to complex electronic systems in radars, software and hardware1. Software design, development of real time embedded radar sub system on Multi Bus II.This involved conceptualization of rigorous mathematical algorithms, initial planning, requirements gathering, design and implementation and test on the embedded platform.This involved extensive RTOS programming (iRMK) using C and system calls.2. Hardware and software design of a display panel using 8751.This involved conceptualization, developing the hardware and software architecture, PCB design, hardware and software3. Design & development of Raw Video Interface Card for Radar Display. This was a design and implementation of a mixed design PCB (digital + analog) that accomplished the required functionality.

B. Tech, Electrical Engineering

B.Tech Project (Guide :Prof ShivaShankar) Infinite Impulse Train: The sampling theorem which is of considerable importance.

H.S.C (Xii), Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, English

S.S.C (X), Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, English, Hindi, French

M.S., Electronics & Control

Pursued Masters along with full-time job during industry career

Doctorate (Incomplete And Currently Pursuing Part-Time), Computer Science