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People and Facilities
Offices:
Columbus, Ohio
Hyderabad, India
President:
Chandra Gollapudy
Strategy Consultant:
Vinay Kumar
Advisor, India
Projects:
R.
Ramakrishniah
Administrative Support:
Faye
Kuehn has over 25 years of experience in technical writing, proposal writing,
project coordination and administrative/program management support for the
Department of Energy and the Department of Defense.
Engineers:
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7 Full-time
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science Engineers (Prakash
Cheruvu, Srinivas as Group leaders in India)
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3 Graduate
students, with Civil Engineering degrees, pursuing their Masters in GIS (due
to complete Masters degrees in next 6 months) at The Ohio State University
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2 Graduate
Students, pursuing Masters in Remote Sensing at The Ohio State University
Advisors and Industry Experts:
Lambdanets takes advice constantly from practicing engineers and researchers
in industry in the U.S.A:
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3 experts in
advanced computing area
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2 experts in
speech area
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2 experts in
process control area
Computing Environment:
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10 networked
PCs with LAN; High speed internet access; Standard office equipment
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Linux Tools and
environment; Windows/NT environments
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C, C++, C#,
Visual Studio, Java, J++ Development tools
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Case
Development tools and Methodology, Project Management tools
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ORACLE
database, application tools
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GIS and Image
Analysis tools: ArcView, ArcInfo, ArcMap, Imagine
Lambdanets will
work with and tap into the rich expertise, technologies, and extensive
computing environments of its collaborators as needed.
Lambdanets has access to both the people and infrastructure of CERC. The
Center has a very rich software, hardware, and computing environment,
including a network of high performance servers, SUN, HP-Silicon Graphics;
application servers; CASE Tools; Development Tools; ORACLE and application
tools; and Internet tools.
Likewise, CFM has high performance computing, network, and software resources
for all GIS and Remote Sensing applications. These centers have a large
number of experts in related areas.
Biosketches
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Chandra
Gollapudy
President and CEO, Lambdanets
Director of Kashco Technologies, India.
B. Tech
(EE), IIT-Kanpur, M.S.E.E,
West Virginia
University
Mr.
Gollapudy has 20 years of experience in project and program management; planning
and strategy development; systems engineering; and computer architecture and
development of very large-scale IT projects.
At TRW,
Lucent Technologies, and Innolog, Mr. Gollapudy, did the front-end architecture
and conceptual design of a $500 Million Standard Procurement System for
Department of Defense (DoD); did front-end strategic planning, as well as
implementation planning. He provided Program Management support for the
Defense Procurement Payment System ($500 Million project) for Defense Finance
and Accounting Services; provided Program Management and Technical Management
support on a $1 Billion project on a unified suite of Logistics Systems for DoD
under management of Joint Logistics System Command.
At
Concurrent Engineering Research Center, he initiated and spearheaded an
internet-based healthcare system that subsequently resulted in $20 Million
funding for the Center and formation of a spin-off company, Careflow.
At
Honeywell R&D, he conducted research in advanced computer architectures.
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R.
Ramakrishniah
Adviser,
Lambdanets on Projects in India
CEO of
Kashco Technologies Ltd., and the combined Lambdanets-Kashco Technolgoes.
He is also
director of HimShakti and is their Technical Director.
Retired
(1996) as Chief Engineer (Power Systems) from Andhra Pradesh State Electricity
Board (APSEB) after working in various roles for about 32 years. He played
vital roles in planning, Urban Power Distribution, Operation, and Maintenance
for over 15 years; Power System Planning, Operations and Protection for 15
years; involved in implementation of many initiatives, such as SCADA
(Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition); served on a number of technical
coordination tasks for the Southern Regional Electricity Board--responsible for
getting an arbitration in favor of APSEB on generation tariffs with NTPC.
Senior
Consultant, Irrigation dept., Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, 1996– current:
associated with settlement of inter-State disputes among the basin States of
Krishna River waters. Served on a number of expert committees on:
recommendations of selection and construction of mini-Hydel Power Plants;
explore Hydel Power potential in Godavari River basins; study causes of flooding
in Srisailem hydroelectric power plant, due to Krishna river flooding, and come
up with remedial solutions.
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Vinay
Kumar
Strategy Advisor, Lambdanets
B. S.E.E,
IIT-Kanpur; M.S.E.E.,
West Virginia
University
Mr.Kumar
is a technologist and successful entrepreneur who founded, successfully ran, and
helped fund a number of high technology companies. Most recently, he founded
and was CEO of Roshnee, a fiber optic technology company that subsequently
became Optovation, backed by $23 million of venture funding. Prior to that, he
was General Manager of Multimedia Applications Business Unit of Picturtel,
currently part of Polycom; founded, executed and successfully sold the company,
Icast, a multicasting technology development company to First Virtual Inc.
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Brief
biographical sketches of heads of institutional and corporate collaborators
follow.
Geographic Information
Systems
Center
for Mapping, The Ohio State University
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Joel L.
Morrison was appointed Director of the Center for Mapping in October 1998, and
also has faculty appointments in the Department of Geography and the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science.
Dr.
Morrison earned his B.A. cum laude from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in June
1962, his MS in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June 1964
and his doctorate in Geography-Cartography with a minor in Statistics from the
University of Wisconsin- Madison in January 1968.
Previous to his coming to the Center for Mapping at Ohio State, he was Chief of
the Geography Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, with a brief special
assignment to the National Science Foundation in the Geography and Regional
Science Program of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate. Prior to
service with the Bureau of the Census, Dr. Morrison was a senior administrator
at the U.S. Geological Survey.
At the
Bureau of the Census, Dr. Morrison designed and implemented the first
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), signed between the
Bureau and private corporations.
Dr.
Morrison has been active in the development of geospatial data standards,
bringing together diverse efforts within the United States to create the Spatial
Data Transfer Standard, and is currently serving as chairman of the Spatial Data
Quality Project for the International Standards Organization. He is the
co-author of a leading college text on Cartography, a book on spatial data
quality, and the editor of two atlases. He has written numerous articles and
papers for professional journals, and has served on the editorial boards of six
journals.
Dr.
Morrison is a former chairman of the Geography Department of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He served as President of the International Cartographic
Association, and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and is
currently on the Council of the Association of American Geographers. Dr.
Morrison is an internationally acclaimed leader in the fast developing field of
geo-spatial data.
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Healthcare
Concurrent
Engineering Research Center (CERC)
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Dr. Y. V. Ramana Reddy
is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Concurrent Engineering
Research Center at West Virginia University. He has worked on a number of
research areas with the central theme of enabling technologies for improvement
of collaborative processes involving widely distributed teams.
The areas
of research include Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-based Simulation,
Concurrent Engineering, Medical Informatics, Telemedicine, Distance Learning,
and Intelligent Decision Support.
Professor
Reddy’s research was funded by both Government and Industry. The sponsors
included, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), General Electric, Bell Atlantic,
Bellcore, DEC, HP, Hitachi and many other organizations.
During the
last fifteen years, Professor Reddy directed externally supported research
totaling more than U.S.$50 Million.
Professor
Reddy’s research resulted in more than 50 publications. He has been a
keynote/plenary speaker at numerous national and international conferences in
UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Japan, Thailand, Australia
and India.
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CareFlow|Net
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J.
Friedman, M.D., WVU, President and CEO and a co-founder.
Dr.
Friedman has 9 years experience in medical informatics, and been the prime
clinical researcher for over $18 million of federally funded medical informatics
projects. From 1994 through 1995,
Dr.
Friedman served as a consultant to BioTransplant, Inc., Charlestown,
Massachusetts, where he provided technology assessment and market research in
allogeneic and cross-species organ transplantation.
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Prime Data
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Mr. Percy Akoto is CEO of
Prime Data Corp., a startup company in Dayton, Ohio, providing billing and
computer solutions for healthcare professionals and small offices.
Mr. Akoto has about 20
years of experience in the field of comuting and IT and has worked on many large
scale IT projects. He holds MS in Computer Science from Howard Univ.
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Lighting
Kashco
Technologies Ltd
| Mr. Kasinath is a
business veteran with over 20+ years of business experience in the areas of
electronics, software, etc. He has 40 years of professional experience in the
area o f electronics having worked in UK with British Physical labs, etc. |
| Mr. Gopala Krishna is an
accounting and finance person, who is also director of Kashco Technologies. He
holds M. Com and MBA. |
Energy
HimShakti ltd.
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Mr. M.
Suresh Babu is a business owner in the area of drilling bore-wells in many
states of India and handled consumer, commercial and Govt. contracts. He hold a
Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. |
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Mr. R.
Ramakrishnia is a retired chief-engineer from Andhra Pradesh State Electricity
Board and is also a Senior consultant in the Irrigation Ministry of Andhra
Pradesh. He is a director of Shiva Shakti and also in charge of all technical
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Process Control
Six
Sigma Quality and Advanced Control
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Dr. Pradeep Deshpande, President of SAC, has over 26 years of academic and
industrial experience. He has consulted with DuPont, Exxon, Mobil, Madras
Refineries, Ltd., and Pidilite Industries, Ltd. Dr. Deshpande has conducted
short courses for Exxon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Occidental Chemical; ISA,
Brussels-Belgium, Bechtel, India.
He has
been internationally recognized for his work and is a Member of the high-level
delegation for scientific meetings with the Government of India and the late
Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. Dr. Deshpande became the 150th Anniversary
Distinguished Engineering Fellow at the University of Alabama, 1988 and is a
Fellow of ISA.
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IT and Advanced
Computing
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Dr.
Peter Varman
Associate
Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
B. Tech.,
IIT, Kanpur; M.S.E.E. and Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Austin.
He is an
established researcher in the areas of Parallel Algorithms and Architectures,
Parallel I/O, Database Systems.
Professor
Peter Varman's research interests are parallel algorithms and architectures,
parallel I/O, and the performance of database systems.
His
research in parallel computing is directed towards understanding the impact of
the memory hierarchy (processor caches to I/O) on the performance of parallel
programs.
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Curtis, Inc.,
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Keith
Fritze
President
and CEO; Curtis, Inc.,
B. S. E.
E, University of
Minnesota.
Mr. Fritze
has worked at various computer companies on storage and computer
implementations- Edge Computers, CDC, and Honeywell. At Honeywell R&D, he
conducted research and implemented advanced computer architectures.
Mr. Fritze
founded Curtis, Inc., and is heading and running the Company. He is an expert
in advanced storage architectures, implementations and solutions.
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HexaSoft
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Ravi Shankar Cheruvu
Director,
HexaSoft, Australia
B.Tech, M.
Tech., IIT-Madras, Ph. D
Dr.
Cheruvu, has over 20 years of industry experience in advanced computing and
information technology areas. He has worked in research/development of products
and services, and execution of IT projects at various organizations both in
India and Australia including, Computer Maintenance Corporation in
India;
telecom industry, NEC, etc.
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SAP Consultant
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Manoj Kumbhat
MSEE, MBA, West Virginia Univ.
Mr. Kumbhat has 15 years of experience in the SAP area.
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Consultants:
a number of
highly qualified consultants in the areas of telecom, Oracle applications and
DBAs, embedded system designers, Digital Signal Processing experts
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