Suraj Raja
Application Engineer
California, United States
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Top SchoolSuraj Raja is an application engineer and PhD-trained electrical engineer with 11 years of experience bridging robotics, FPGA acceleration, and real-time control systems. He currently applies his expertise at MathWorks, helping customers deploy model-based signal processing and hardware-in-the-loop solutions while qualifying technical opportunities for sales and marketing. His research built a neuromorphic platform that reproduces spinal and transcortical reflexes for robots, prostheses, and cadaver studies—work funded by NIH grants and blending neuroscience with embedded systems. Comfortable across hardware, firmware, and systems software, he designs extensible, well-documented standards for heterogeneous acceleration in robotic controls and signal processing. A lifelong learner and educator, he has taught embedded systems and signals courses to graduate and undergraduate students, and led hands-on labs for large classes. Based in California, he thrives on interdisciplinary teams that turn complex, multi-domain requirements into practical, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering, 3.5/4.0, Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering, 3.5/4.0 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's Degree, Electronics and communication engineering, 8.6/10, Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and communication engineering, 8.6/10 at SRMIST, Kattankulathur, Chennai ,Tamil NaduHigh School, Computer Science, 90%, High School, Computer Science, 90% at Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School
Tamil, Hindi, English, Spanish
Github Skills (50)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
silicondosa/telecon
Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
A cross-platform telemetry and control GUI toolkit for C++
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 1 month
silicondosa/quickDAQ
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
An easy to C/C++ wrapper for National Instruments DAQmx with a shallow learning curve
Contributions:44 commits, 13 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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