Professional

• Corporate: see Inspired Research.

• Major employment:
  • Senior software engineer at Bloomberg LP, (Jan 2009-May 2019).
  • Principal software engineer at EMC Smarts, (Mar 2003-Nov 2008).
  • Advisory programmer in the Deep Blue team at IBM Research, (Oct 1994-Jul 2002)
  • Senior project coordinator at Kirloskar Computer Services Ltd, India, (Jan 1985-May 1992)

• Academic:
  • US: Columbia University
          M.S. (Computer Science), May 2005 (thesis).
  • India: Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur
          M.Tech. (SatCom & Remote Sensing), Dec 1984
          B.Tech. (Electronics & Communication), May 1982

• Professional:
  • patents   technical papers
  • member of
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1992-)
    Americal Physical Society (2006-2017)
    International Society for Optical Engineering (2008)
    Americal Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2008)

• Martial arts:
  • student of Chinese martial arts since April 1994, at ACCS Brewster.
  • instructor (external arts) since 2019 at In Balance Taichi.
  • some previous instructors:
    -sensei kanazawa, told me three times during 1985-86 to seek tai-chi
    -sempai takatsuno of wada sensei's renshinkan dojo, santa clara, 1985-86, my zen teacher
    -sempai ranka from bangalore, 1986-88

Martial arts

From left:
1. With Master Sant, my shrfu, and my lao-shr certificate.
2. With my Taichi peers David and George.
3. With Master Crawford and most of the Brewster staff.
4. 2004 USKSF (Maryland) traditional(circular) 8-palm change ba-kua.
5. Drunken monk (before Shrya & Fa-shr!), New Year's lion dance, 2006.
6. Shrfu surprises me with another jen-shen!
7. Shrfu surprises me yet again

Shaolin connection

I'd wistfully said in 1991 that I might end up learning gungfu with the Shaolin monks. The monks came to the US around the same time, particularly to the American Center for Chinese Studies. Fa-shrGuolin Shi, 34th generation Shaolin kungfu monk demonstrating a punching set (right) at the Grand Opening of the ACCS gwan in Charlotte, N. Carolina, July 2002. (I'm in the black T-shirt behind the monk and Shrya Ma Fo Ren in the group picture. Shrfu Phil Sant is to the monk's right, in blue.)