Krishnaraj Varma

Krishnaraj Varma has a diverse range of work experience in the field of engineering. Krishnaraj started their career as an intern at National Aerospace Laboratories, where they derived surface models and ray tracing parameters for aircraft communication devices. Krishnaraj then worked as a consultant at Tata Consultancy Services, providing maintenance and production support for Market Regulation software systems.

Varma then joined Virginia Tech as a Graduate Research Assistant, where they conducted research on perceptual weights for JPEG2000 and developed a new algorithm for estimating speech direction in reverberant conditions. Krishnaraj also taught Digital Signal Processing and Filter Design as an instructor.

Afterward, Varma worked at Hughes Network Systems as a Principal Engineer, where they served as the technical lead for designing hardware accelerators for modem SoCs. Krishnaraj also developed an in-house infrastructure using SystemC and Boost libraries.

Varma then joined Qualcomm as a Senior Staff Engineer, where they managed and designed a SystemC based transaction-level model of a WiFi receiver modem. Krishnaraj also served as the lead in charge of developing receiver reference models for multiple generations of WiFi products.

Currently, Varma works at Impinj as a Principal Communication Systems Engineer, although specific roles and responsibilities are not provided.

Krishnaraj Varma holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, which they completed from 2003 to 2006. Krishnaraj also obtained a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university from 2000 to 2002. Prior to that, they graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from the College of Engineering Trivandrum between 1993 and 1997. Furthermore, Krishnaraj Varma has a certification in Machine Learning from Coursera, obtained in the year 2019.