Sunil Motwani

Sunil Motwani is a country manager, sales and services, at MathWorks India. He has been at MathWorks since 2008, from the time it started operations in India. He has more than 30 years of experience in sales of technology products for various industry segments in India including automotive, aerospace and defense, communications, semiconductors, medical devices, and industrial automation. Sunil has a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, and a postgraduate diploma in software technology from National Centre of Software Technology (NCST), Mumbai.

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Dr. Arun Mulpur

Arun Mulpur is a senior industry group manager at MathWorks. He has worked in the areas of design automation and algorithm and system design for over 28 years, including 21 years at MathWorks. His team works with companies in the communications, electronics, semiconductors, software and internet, energy production, medical devices, and robotics industries. They focus on enabling customer engineering teams in the development of new technologies and products and improving engineering workflows for algorithm development, system design, simulation, prototyping, and implementation. Arun holds a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Osmania University, where he was awarded the Khateeb Mahmood Hussain Gold Medal. He also holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.

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Vadiraj Krishnamurthy

Vadiraj Krishnamurthy heads technology and innovation as CTO of Bosch Global Software Technologies. He has 25 years of experience at Bosch Group in various product engineering roles. Vadiraj has rich experience in software and system engineering and powertrain and vehicle dynamics control systems. He is a certified product engineering coach and an expert in the Design Review Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM) method. Vadiraj holds an engineering degree in electronics and communication from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore. 

Vijayalayan R

Vijayalayan R heads automotive industry and location field application engineering at MathWorks India. He and his team facilitate the adoption of Model-Based Design, empowering customers to embrace next-generation technologies on their journey towards electrification, AI, and software-defined vehicle projects. Vijayalayan is part of the management committee of the SAE India Bangalore section and has 23 years of industry experience. Prior to joining MathWorks, he worked in embedded systems leadership at Cranes Software International Limited and as a Scientist B at the Gas Turbine Research Establishment. Vijayalayan holds a bachelor's degree from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a master's degree in control and instrumentation from IIT Madras.
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Rahul Choudhary

Rahul Choudhary is a principal application engineer at MathWorks India, specializing in system modeling and control design. He has over 12 years of experience in power electronics control, motor control, multidomain modeling, and real-time simulation. Before joining MathWorks, Rahul worked as a control engineer at Eaton India Engineering Centre, where he was involved in developing prognostics and health monitoring algorithms for proof-of-concept projects for their electrical products.
He holds a master’s degree in systems and control engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and instrumentation engineering from Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India.

Ramanuja Jagannathan

Ramanuja Jagannathan is a senior application engineer at MathWorks India working on modeling, simulation, control design, and simulation deployment for mechatronics applications. He has experience working in customer projects involving mechatronic machine design, robotic manipulators, reinforcement learning–based controllers, and digital twin deployment. Before joining MathWorks, he was a senior engineer at Larsen and Toubro working in project planning and control of railway projects. Ramanuja’s academic background is in process control, and he completed a master’s program at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. 

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Sumit Garg

Sumit Garg is a senior application engineer at MathWorks India specializing in design analysis and implementation of radar signal processing and data processing applications. He works closely with customers in areas of radar, phased array, and sensor fusion. He has around 12 years of industrial experience in the development of hardware and software applications in the radar domain.

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Kishore Siddani

Kishore Siddani is an application engineer at MathWorks. He works closely with customers to help them adopt Model-Based Design to accelerate the design and deployment of applications including communications, radar, controls, and deep learning. He has nine years of industry experience working on implementation of applications targeting the Xilinx^® Zynq^® platform and other SoC devices. Prior to joining MathWorks, Kishore worked for Huawei Technologies, handling telecom clients internationally in around seven countries. He was also an engineer at Uurmi Solutions, where he was involved in the design and development of custom OFDM-based communication systems for defense applications.

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Prashant Rao

Prashant Rao heads the Application Engineering team at MathWorks India. He and his team focus on helping customers across industry verticals and application domains to accelerate and reduce risk in their development processes through the usage of MATLAB and Simulink products. He has a wide exposure with customers ranging from large enterprises to startups spanning commercial, government, and educational organizations. Prashant is a regular contributor at industry forums, sharing his views around megatrends in technology and especially how artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling engineers and scientists to build smarter systems.  

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Dr. Lakshminarayan Viju Ravichandran

Dr. Lakshminarayan Viju Ravichandran leads the education technical evangelist team at MathWorks India, focusing on the application of MATLAB and Simulink in curriculum development and research. His interests lie in finding synergies between industry and academia. He has over 7 years of experience in academic research and 10 years in the industry. Prior to joining MathWorks, Viju worked as a research associate at Arizona State University, where he obtained his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering. He was involved in the development and design of signal processing algorithms, analysis of biological data, and architectural implementation of signal processing algorithms. As a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University, he worked at the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences developing algorithms in image processing for medical data.
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Rajat Arora

Rajat Arora is an automotive industry application engineer at MathWorks with a focus on verification and validation and code generation products. He has accumulated more than a decade of experience working in both the automotive and software industries. Before joining MathWorks, he worked at Magneti Marelli and Robert Bosch, where he led teams of engineers responsible for developing software for engine control, safety, and transmission systems. Rajat holds an M.B.A. from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Maharshi Dayanand University in Delhi/NCR. 

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Gaurav Ahuja

Gaurav Ahuja is an experienced application engineer at MathWorks India, where he has been helping customers successfully adopt MATLAB and Simulink for over seven years. He focuses on assisting customers to develop safety-critical systems across all industries and adhere to their industry-specific safety standards. Gaurav has worked with customers in a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, railways, medical devices, industrial automation, and consumer electronics. He is skilled in model verification and validation, auto C code generation and certification, and is always eager to tackle new technical challenges. Gaurav holds a master's degree in embedded systems from BITS Pilani.

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Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam

Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam works as a senior application engineer at MathWorks in the area of artificial intelligence. He primarily focuses on areas of data analytics applications involving time-series data. Jayanth has eight years of research and industrial experience, and has worked on developing AI, machine learning, and deep learning  solutions for retail optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, and other application areas. Prior to joining MathWorks, Jayanth worked as a senior AI engineer at Impact Analytics, Bangalore.

Dr. Rishu Gupta

Rishu Gupta is a principal application engineer at MathWorks India. He primarily focuses on automated driving and artificial intelligence applications. Rishu has over nine years of experience working on applications related to visual contents. He previously worked as a scientist at LG Soft India in the Research and Development unit. Rishu holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from BIET Jhansi; a master’s in visual contents from Dongseo University, South Korea, working on the application of computer vision; and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University Technology Petronas, Malaysia.

Peeyush Pankaj

Peeyush Pankaj is a principal application engineer at MathWorks, where he has been promoting MATLAB products for data science. He works closely with customers in the areas of predictive maintenance, digital twin, enterprise integration, and big data. Peeyush has over 12 years of industry experience with a strong background in aviation. Prior to joining MathWorks, he has extensively worked on aircraft engine designs, testing, and certification. He has filed 25 patents on advanced jet engine technologies and prognostic health monitoring of aircraft engines. Peeyush holds a master’s degree in advanced mechanical engineering from the University of Sussex, UK.

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