Achuth Rao
Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAchuth Rao is a Staff Engineer at Qualcomm with eight years of experience bridging academic research and product engineering in speech and signal processing. He holds a Ph.D. and completed postdoctoral research at the Indian Institute of Science, where he focused on advanced electrical engineering topics and speech processing. Achuth has applied that research background to ML-driven products, including ASR for Indian languages at Flipkart and medical signal segmentation during R&D internships. At Qualcomm he progressed from Senior Lead Engineer to Staff Engineer, driving multimedia R&D efforts that translate research prototypes into production-ready systems. Based in Bengaluru, he combines deep academic rigor with practical, deployment-focused engineering—a profile reflected in both his industrial roles and ongoing researcher mindset.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Postdoctoral Scholar at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore
Github Skills (9)
generative-adversarial-network8
image-manipulation7
denoising7
high-resolution7
image-restoration7
photo6
pytorch5
computer-vision4
deep-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
araomv/MGDP
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
araomv/SFNet
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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