AMEYA KULKARNI
308 S. West Street, Apt. #10, Arlington Texas – 76010
ameya.kulkarni@mavs.uta.edu
817-757-0468 (Mobile)
OBJECTIVE
Looking for an entry level job in the field of Embedded Systems or Image Processing, utilizing my programming skills
SKILLS
Programming skills: Assembly, C, C++, VC++ (SDK & MFC), Visual Basic and MATLAB
Microcontrollers/processors: 80C51, 80C52, 8085, 80x86, PIC24 family, LPC2292/94 (ARM7)
Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 2003 server/XP/Vista/Win 7, Linux Shell Scripting
Computer Vision Algorithms: Video processing, Digit recognition, Face Recognition(PCA, Ada-boosting), Motion
Estimation and Tracking, Hough Transform, Chamfer distance, Stereo Vision, Image and Video database searches, Shape
context indexing. [MATLAB – Image Processing Toolbox]
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (Expected: Spring 2011)
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunications, University of Pune, India (May 2009)
GPA: 3.7/4.0
Relevant Coursework: Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Coding Techniques, Advanced
Embedded Systems, Advanced Microprocessors, Microcontroller & Microprocessors, Data Structures & Files.
EXPERIENCE
Intern at CREST department KPIT-Cummins Info-Systems Limited (www.kpitcummins.com)
Fall 2008 – Spring 2009
Research Project: Vision Based Automated Instrument Cluster Tester: An automated machine vision system which
acquires the vehicle cluster (car dashboard) image using an USB interfaced webcam through WIN32 system WIA-API. The
system further processes the acquired image for predefined cluster configurations using computer vision algorithms developed
and implemented in VC++. The extracted cluster data (readings) are displayed using VC++ (MFC) based GUI. Comparing the
given inputs and acquired image data, an instrument cluster can be tested from functional point of view. [Used: VC++ (MFC)]
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PROJECTS
Design of Digital Signal Capture Device
Summer 2010
Designed a signal conditioning circuit, triggering circuit(D/A converter based) and a microprocessor (8086) system with a
RAM, ROM, DMA controller, an interrupt controller, a Timer/Counter and I/O ports. The digital signal capture is through an
A/D converter which is FIFO buffered to reach the system throughput rate of 1 Msps. Furthermore, a set of low level firmware
functions were written to control I/O ports (capture rate , triggering mode(Auto/Manual), trigger voltage level) and to run a
user programmable callback function on a capture complete interrupt [Language Used: Assembly, C]
Development of Ethernet HTTP Server
Spring 2010
Wrote TCP/IP stack to host an HTTP server for an automated robot ROVER to control its location coordinates and display data
such as health, current location and wireless communication channel used for communication.[Embedded C]
Development of Embedded RTOS for PIC24F family Microcontrollers: (UT Arlington)
Spring 2010
Developed Round Robin Cooperative and Pre-emptive Real Time Operating system kernel functions for yielding, semaphore
signaling, waiting and system timer on PIC24 platform. [Language Used: Assembly, Embedded C]
PC interfaced bidirectional RS-485 communication system: (University of Texas at Arlington)
Fall 2009
Two separate designs, Controller and Peripheral node. Controller provides a PC RS232 port through which commands can be
entered. It outputs commands on a 2-wire RS-485 bus. Peripheral node extracts information out of the asynchronous data
stream. It controls multiple devices connected to it and sends unsolicited messages to the controller in from input devices.
Unacknowledged messages are retransmitted by random exponential back off algorithm. [Language Used: Embedded C]
Weather Board System Design: (University of Texas at Arlington)
Fall 2009
Pressure, Temperature and Humidity sensors interfaced through ADC with the help of signal conditioning. A 4x4 Keyboard is
the input device with menu support. Weather and RTCC data are displayed on the graphic LCD interfaced on SPI
bus.[Language Used: Embedded C]
Vehicle Tracking System Using GPS and GSM: (University of Pune)
Spring 2008
The project consists of a set of Vehicle Tracking Units (VTUs) linked to central station through GSM module. VTU receives
GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite data. Microcontroller in VTU calculates the global position coordinates and sends
those to central station through Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM).
COMPUTER VISION PROJECTS
Gesture Recognition (American Sign Language) using DSTW and DTW:
Spring 2010
Scale and Translation invariant gesture recognition based on similarity measure between query and model video sequences is
implemented. Similarity measure is found out by using either simple Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) or Advanced Dynamic
Space Time Warping (DSTW) algorithm. In presence of moving distractors motion and skin detection based hand detector
module may fail but use of dynamic space time warping algorithm (DSTW) to find the similarity measure improves accuracy
greatly over simple DTW algorithm.[Language Used: MATLAB]
Face Detector:
Spring 2010
Developed Face detector which uses Ada-Boosting and Bootstrapping algorithms at training stage and multi-stage cascades of
boosted classifiers aided with skin detection at testing stage. [Language Used: MATLAB]
Face Recognition using Correlation, Principal Component Analysis and Ada-boosted Classifiers:
Spring 2010
A face recognition using 2-D cross correlation, PCA and Ada-Boosted Classifier was implemented in order to compare
accuracy and speed of these methods.[Language Used: MATLAB]
Person Tracker: Implemented motion estimation based person tracker which draws bounding box around person. The tracker
determines center of mass of the person and calculates his/her speed from Euclidean distance between centers of mass. The
tracker determines walking pose of the person such as Constricted Legs or Expanded Legs. [Language Used: MATLAB]
OTHER PROJECTS
Simulation of MIMO system using MATLAB: (University of Texas at Arlington)
It simulates spatial multiplexing in presence of polarization diversity to show the effect of SNR on bit error rate.
Metal Detector: (University of Pune)
The project involved building high frequency coil based transistorized metal detection circuitry.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS/HONORS/AWARDS
 State Merit Rank Holder in High School Examination (4th at state board in science stream)
 National Open Merit Scholarship holder
 Talent Search Scholarship holder (Level-I and Level-II)
Fall 2009
Spring 2008