Catholic Mission

Office:

        Zurn , Room 305

• B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology , New Delhi ,India (1982)
• M.S.E.E. , Electrical Engineering , M.I.T. , Cambridge, MA (1987)
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering , Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN (1994)
• M.S. M.I.T. (1985)

• Digital Signal and Image Processing
• Digital Communications
• Electromagnetic fields
• Artificial Neural Networks

Recent Publication:

• R. Sundaram, “Recursive cellular networks for inverse problems,`Critical Technologies for the  Future of Computing, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4109, Aug. 2000 (Presented at the Annual SPIE  Conference, San Diego, July,August, 2000).
• B.Kempegowda , S. Madala , and R. Sundaram, “FPGA-based robust DSP codec” Proceedings of the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics , Cybernetics , and Informatics, Volume X, pp. 203 - 206 , July 2005.
• J. Layhue and R. Sundaram, “Real transform domain operations for image compression and segmentation,” presented at the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Workshop , Aug. 1st - 4th , 2004 , New Mexico.
• R. Sundaram, “Efficient computing architectures for processing digital image data,” Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVII , Vol. 5558, pp. 80-86(2004)).
• R. Sundaram, “Image segmentation using discrete cosine transforms,” presented at the 2004 , Great Lakes Symposium, June 6th - 10th, 2004 , Cleveland , OH.
• R. Sundaram, “Analysis and implementation of an efficient edge detection algorithm,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 3, Bellingham, WA , SPIE , pp. 642-650, March 2003.
• R. Sundaram, “Partitioned Computing Architectures for Image Noise Reduction,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 42 , No. 1 , Bellingham , WA , SPIE, pp. 47-53, January 2003.
• Niranjan Tallapally , R. Sundaram , and L. Coover , M.D., “Lesion Identification from Scintimammography Breast Images,” presented at Electronic Imaging 2003 , Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis , Santa Clara , CA , January 20th - 23rd , 2003 (to appear in Proceedings of SPIE, Bellingham, WA, Vol. 5009 (2003)) .

Research Papers:

• Analysis and implementation of an efficient edge detection algorithm
• Partitioned Computing Architectures for Image Noise Reduction
• Lesion Identification from Scintimammography Breast Images
• Efficient medical image segmentation for the visualization of lesions
• Configuring artificial neural networks to implement function optimization
• Efficient implementations of edge localization algorithms
• Architectures and Algorithms in the Spatial and Transform Domains to Process Digita Image Data
• Filter and Input Representations for Localizing Discontinuities in Sampled Data

Membership/Award:

• Who’s Who in America , 2001-2004
• International Who’s Who of Professionals, 2001
• Awarded Who’s Who in America Teachers, 2004 and 2005
• Who’s Who in the World, 2005
• Who’s Who in American Education, 2005
• Elected as a Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2002

Hobbies:

         Enjoys classical music, running/jogging, tennis and basketball