Balamurugan Varadarajan

Balamurugan Varadarajan

Founder Stealth mode Startup | Artificial Intelligence Researcher | Industrial Consultant | Start-up Mentor |Music Technologist| Epigraphy enthusiast

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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Disrupting industrial problems and humanizing technology with AI, AI engineer with extensive experience in both research and product development. Specialize in cross-domain knowledge to contribute to AI technologies for scientific and industrial data as an essential member of an innovative firm. Having worked on the creation and testing of AI solutions for more than a 8 years. Possess an unbridled passion for Artificial Intelligence with comprehensive knowledge of machine learning concepts and other related technologies. Unmatched abilities to identify, understand, and translate program requirements into sustainable, advanced technical solutions through continuous improvement of Al technologies.

Visionary who has a passion for transforming research into products and establishing exceptional teams. Scientific advisor and R&D mentor in MNC’s and Start up’s mentoring methods Ideation, concept development, concept testing, Academia to Industry transfer with NDAs.

My passion on music and support people and finding solutions to problems has always been what has propelled me throughout my career as an artist, vocal coach, author, scientist, and entrepreneur.

Earlier as Research Consultant at Robert Bosch R&D Solutions, Pricol and Matrimony.com my team designed and implemented large-scale intelligent systems, Machine Learning, Conversational AI, Embedded systems, Sensors and Biosensors.

Draeger, Germany was where I began my professional career as a researcher. I spent over four years, during my tenure at Draeger Research, I was actively involved with breath biomarker identification and pattern classification. I was instrumental in coming up with new patentable ideas.

I have a total of Four Invention Disclosures (Patents) to my credit.

I'm always interested in discussing research problem encountered in industries.
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  • Stealth Startup Graphic

    Founder & CEO

    Stealth Startup

    - Present 3 years 8 months

    Greater Coimbatore Area

    Leading the development of a number of artificial intelligence systems, including complex neural networks and machine learning algorithms and research. Helped solve complex problems for some of the largest companies in the India, which has indicatively led to increased sales and brand awareness for those companies.

  • Integrated AI & Sensors Lab BITsathy

    Integrated AI & Sensors Lab BITsathy

    6 years 11 months

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      Research Development Consultant - Matrimony.com

      Integrated AI & Sensors Lab BITsathy

      - Present 4 years 8 months

      Human centered AI based approach for behavioral analysis to improve the efficiency of tele-marketing sales using NLP models.

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      Research Development Consultant - Robert Bosch Bangalore

      Integrated AI & Sensors Lab BITsathy

      - 1 year 6 months

      AI/ML model based food safety and quality control for Milk adulteration deduction using MIR spectrometry data to detect adulteration and other contaminants in milk, oil and honey.

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      Research Development Consultant - Pricol Pvt

      Integrated AI & Sensors Lab BITsathy

      - 1 year 8 months

      Pricol commenced its operations in 1975 in Coimbatore, South India in the manufacture of automotive instruments. Design and development of a capacitive sensor, for continuous monitoring of the concentration of AdBlue (Urea).

  • Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Graphic

    Research Coordinator and Consultant

    Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

    - Present 9 years 7 months

    Sathyamangalam

    - Research management in department, Research Co-coordinator, and Teaching inter-disciplinary courses in undergraduate and graduate level.
    - Academic research consultant for companies. Handling IoT based R and D consultancy projects from Zan compute - http://zancompute.com/ , Pricol - http://www.pricol.com/ , R & D team - Robert Bosch, Bangalore. IIT-Madras, Biomedical engineering

  • Inselspital Bern Graphic

    Post doctoral researcher

    Inselspital Bern

    - 4 years 2 months

    Bern Area, Switzerland

    -Working with pulmonary gas exchange related to Ventilation to Perfusion ratio (V/Q ratio) using Multiple inert gas elimination technique.
    - In Vitro Lung Model was designed using hollowfiber membrane oxygenators to check V/Q ratios.
    -Designed and worked on preclinical trails for finding the V/Q ratio.

  • Draeger Graphic

    Research staff - Ph.D position

    Draeger

    - 3 years 8 months

    Lübeck Area, Germany

    - Design, development and optimization of a amperometric electrochemical propofol sensor.
    - Developed a three compartment breath based pharmacokinetic model which predicts breath propofol.
    - Breath sensor based control system design to control propofol sedation.
    -Assisted in design and execution of preclinical trails to test the experimental setup (sensor and control system).

  • Leibniz institute for molecular pharmacology Graphic

    Master Thesis

    Leibniz institute for molecular pharmacology

    - 7 months

    Berlin Area, Germany

    Extensive research with MALDI-TOF-MS and ESI-TOF-MS for detecting methylation in peptides. Protein purification with HPLC and knowledge on HPLC-MS techniques.

  • National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore Graphic

    Research Intern

    National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore

    - 1 year 6 months

    Bangalore

    Application of different transducers specifically Piezoelectric transducers to Active Vibration control, Passive Vibration control, Vibration suppression using input pre-conditioning and hardware and software design for all the above systems.

Education

  • Universität zu Lübeck

    Doctorate Computer Science Engineering

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    Thesis: Model predictive control and electrochemical breath sensor design for propofol Anesthesia.

  • Technische Hochschule Lübeck Graphic

    Technische Hochschule Lübeck

    Master of Science (M.Sc.) Biomedical Engineering

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  • Vellore Institute of Technology Graphic

    Vellore Institute of Technology

    Bachelors of Engineering Electronics and Instrumentation

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    Activities and Societies: Active member in personality development and leadership programs.

    Thesis title: Virtual instrumentation assisted resonance identification system for aircraft structures.

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Publications

  • Classification of Groundnut Oil Using Advanced ATR-MIR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics

    SpringerLink

    In this work, attenuated total reflectance (ATR) mid infrared (MIR) spectroscopy has been used for analysis of edible cold pressed (CP) and other different brands of refined/hot pressed (HP) groundnut oils (Brand 1–3) for the first time. Frequencies at the MIR region, mainly at wavelengths of 5–11 µm, are examined for classification of groundnut oils. The effect of temperature of cold pressed and hot pressed commercial oil brands are investigated by heating oil samples at different temperatures…

    In this work, attenuated total reflectance (ATR) mid infrared (MIR) spectroscopy has been used for analysis of edible cold pressed (CP) and other different brands of refined/hot pressed (HP) groundnut oils (Brand 1–3) for the first time. Frequencies at the MIR region, mainly at wavelengths of 5–11 µm, are examined for classification of groundnut oils. The effect of temperature of cold pressed and hot pressed commercial oil brands are investigated by heating oil samples at different temperatures of 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, and 200 °C. Partial least square regression (PLSR) and K-means derivative spectra revealed the best calibration models to differentiate cold pressed oils and different brands of hot pressed groundnut oil samples, with coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.999 and root mean standard error of cross validation (RMSECV) of 0.285 and 0.373, respectively. It is noted that pure cold pressed and commercial brand groundnut oils showed a different trend of oxidation at different temperatures. Heated cold-pressed groundnut oil revealed notable spectral variations, than heating other commercial brands of oil.

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  • Near-real-time pulmonary shunt and dead space measurement with micropore membrane inlet mass spectrometry in pigs with induced pulmonary embolism or acute lung failure.

    Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing

    The multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET) using gas chromatography (GC) is an established but time-consuming method of determining ventilation/perfusion (VA/Q) distributions. MIGET—when performed using Micropore Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry (MMIMS)—has been proven to correlate well with GC-MIGET and reduces analysis time substantially. We aimed at comparing shunt fractions and dead space derived from MMIMS–MIGET with Riley shunt and Bohr dead space, respectively. Thirty…

    The multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET) using gas chromatography (GC) is an established but time-consuming method of determining ventilation/perfusion (VA/Q) distributions. MIGET—when performed using Micropore Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry (MMIMS)—has been proven to correlate well with GC-MIGET and reduces analysis time substantially. We aimed at comparing shunt fractions and dead space derived from MMIMS–MIGET with Riley shunt and Bohr dead space, respectively. Thirty anesthetized pigs were randomly assigned to lavage or pulmonary embolism groups. Inert gas infusion (saline mixture of SF6, krypton, desflurane, enflurane, diethyl ether, acetone) was maintained, and after induction of lung damage, blood and breath samples were taken at 15-min intervals over 4 h. The samples were injected into the MMIMS, and resultant retention and excretion data were translated to VA/Q distributions. We compared MMIMS-derived shunt (MM-S) to Riley shunt, and MMIMS-derived dead space (MM-VD) to Bohr dead space in 349 data pairs. MM-S was on average lower than Riley shunt (− 0.05 ± 0.10), with lower and upper limits of agreement of − 0.15 and 0.04, respectively. MM-VD was on average lower than Bohr dead space (− 0.09 ± 0.14), with lower and upper limits of agreement of − 0.24 and 0.05. MM-S and MM-VD correlated and agreed well with Riley shunt and with Bohr dead space. MM-S increased significantly after lung injury only in the lavage group, whereas MM-VD increased significantly in both groups. This is the first work evaluating and demonstrating the feasibility of near real-time VA/Q distribution measurements with the MIGET and the MMIMS methods.

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  • An in vitro lung model to assess true shunt fraction by multiple inert gas elimination

    Public Library of Science

    The Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique, based on Micropore Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry, (MMIMS-MIGET) has been designed as a rapid and direct method to assess the full range of ventilation-to-perfusion (V/Q) ratios. MMIMS-MIGET distributions have not been assessed in an experimental setup with predefined V/Q-distributions. We aimed (I) to construct a novel in vitro lung model (IVLM) for the simulation of predefined V/Q distributions with five gas exchange compartments and (II) to…

    The Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique, based on Micropore Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry, (MMIMS-MIGET) has been designed as a rapid and direct method to assess the full range of ventilation-to-perfusion (V/Q) ratios. MMIMS-MIGET distributions have not been assessed in an experimental setup with predefined V/Q-distributions. We aimed (I) to construct a novel in vitro lung model (IVLM) for the simulation of predefined V/Q distributions with five gas exchange compartments and (II) to correlate shunt fractions derived from MMIMS-MIGET with preset reference shunt values of the IVLM. Five hollow-fiber membrane oxygenators switched in parallel within a closed extracorporeal oxygenation circuit were ventilated with sweep gas (V) and perfused with human red cell suspension or saline (Q). Inert gas solution was infused into the perfusion circuit of the gas exchange assembly. Sweep gas flow (V) was kept constant and reference shunt fractions (IVLM-S) were established by bypassing one or more oxygenators with perfusate flow (Q). The derived shunt fractions (MM-S) were determined using MIGET by MMIMS from the retention data. Shunt derived by MMIMS-MIGET correlated well with preset reference shunt fractions. The in vitro lung model is a convenient system for the setup of predefined true shunt fractions in validation of MMIMS-MIGET.

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  • Validation of MMIMS‐MIGET (multiple inert gas elimination technique by micropore membrane inlet mass spectrometry) in an in vitro lung model of lung compartments with low‐to‐normal ventilation‐perfusion ratios

    European Journal of Anaesthesiology (EJA)

    Background and Goal of Study: MMIMS‐MIGET has been designed as rapid and direct method to assess the full range of VA/Q distributions.1,2 In an in‐vitro lung model (IVLM), MMIMS‐MIGET shunt has been shown to correlate well with preset model shunt.3 In this study we aimed to compare low (0.005< VA/Q< 0.1) to normal (0.1< VA/Q< 10)4 VA/Q compartments determined by MMIMS‐MIGET (MM‐VQ) with reference low‐to‐normal VA/Q compartments as preset in the IVLM (IVLM‐VQ).

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  • In vitro lung model to assess gas exchange by multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET) using micropore membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MMIMS)

    European Journal of Anaesthesiology

    Background: Currently, gas exchange analysis by MIGET based on MMIMS is under evaluation by several groups 1,2. MMIMS‐MIGET shunt has been shown to correlate well with Riley shunt in a porcine lavage lung model1. Membrane oxygenators have been used as model to describe nitric oxide and carbon monoxide transfer2. So far, MIGET has not been tested in such a setup to assess predefined ventilation perfusion (VA/Q) distributions. In this study we aimed (I) to design an in vitro lung model (IVLM)…

    Background: Currently, gas exchange analysis by MIGET based on MMIMS is under evaluation by several groups 1,2. MMIMS‐MIGET shunt has been shown to correlate well with Riley shunt in a porcine lavage lung model1. Membrane oxygenators have been used as model to describe nitric oxide and carbon monoxide transfer2. So far, MIGET has not been tested in such a setup to assess predefined ventilation perfusion (VA/Q) distributions. In this study we aimed (I) to design an in vitro lung model (IVLM) which comprises 5 separate gas exchange compartments and (II), to compare shunt fractions derived from MMIMS‐MIGET with preset reference shunt values of the IVLM.

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  • Time course of ethanol and propofol exhalation after bolus injection using ion molecule reaction-mass spectrometry

    SpringerLink

    The transit of ethanol from blood to breath gas is well characterised. It is used for intraoperative monitoring and in forensic investigations. A further substance, which can be measured in breath gas, is the phenol propofol. After a simultaneous bolus injection, the signals (time course and amplitude) of ethanol and propofol in breath gas were detected by ion molecule reaction-mass spectrometry (IMR-MS) and compared. After approval by the regional authorities, eight pigs were endotracheally…

    The transit of ethanol from blood to breath gas is well characterised. It is used for intraoperative monitoring and in forensic investigations. A further substance, which can be measured in breath gas, is the phenol propofol. After a simultaneous bolus injection, the signals (time course and amplitude) of ethanol and propofol in breath gas were detected by ion molecule reaction-mass spectrometry (IMR-MS) and compared. After approval by the regional authorities, eight pigs were endotracheally intubated after a propofol-free induction with etomidate. Boluses of ethanol (16 μg/kg) and propofol (4 or 2 mg/kg) were infused alone and in combination. For both substances, breath gas concentrations were continuously measured by IMR-MS; the delay time, time to peak and amplitude were determined and compared using non-parametric statistic tests. IMR-MS allows a simultaneous continuous measurement of both substances in breath gas. Ethanol appeared (median delay time, 12 vs 29.5 s) and reached its peak concentration (median time to peak, 45.5 vs 112 s) significantly earlier than propofol. Time courses of ethanol and propofol in breath gas can be simultaneously described with IMR-MS. Differing pharmacological and physicochemical properties of the two substances can explain the earlier appearance and time to peak of ethanol in breath gas compared with propofol.

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  • The relative influence of phosphorylation and methylation on responsiveness of peptides to MALDI and ESI mass spectrometry.

    Journal of Mass spectrometry

Honors & Awards

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Swiss National Science Foundation

    The fellowship was awarded to work as a Research associate from April 2011 to May 2015 .

  • Dräger PhD fellowship, Dräger, Luebeck, Germany

    Dräger, Luebeck, Germany

    A priviliged Industrial Doctoral fellowship in collaboration with the University of Luebeck, Germany for working in the R&D development.

  • CSIR Research Intern Fellowship

    CSIR - India

    The CSIR Research Intern Fellowship was awarded for 2 years from April 2004 - April 2006.

  • Project Top 10 in Country

    National Instruments, India

    “Virtual Instrumentation assisted Resonance Identification System for Aircraft Structures” – bachelors project, selected one among the top 10 in the country in the 2nd National Level Virtual Instrumentation Conference (January 2004, VI Mantra, Bangalore, India) conducted by National Instruments, India.

Languages

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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