I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland. I expect to graduate in May 2008. My research adviser is Prof. Min Wu. I am working on various problems related to information security and multimedia forensics. To learn more about my research, visit my research page.

In summer of 2006, I worked with the Mobile and Media Systems Lab at Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA, on projects related to Digital Rights Management and developed a content distribution model. From June to August 2007, I worked with Microsft Research Labs in Redmond, WA. I previously graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering.

I also served as the President of Academic Affairs in the ECE Graduate Student Association. During my tenure, ECEGSA won the Golden Geese award for the best student organization on campus. For more information about ECEGSA and its activities click here.


Recent News

Awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship
Selected as ECE Distinguished Dissteration Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year (March 2008). More ...

MERIT and TREND Fair Showcases Summer Research
Two undergraduate students working with me won the overall first place and the best presentation award at the 2007 MERIT fair (August 2007). More ...

Named in the the inaugral class of Future Faculty Fellows
Selected as one among twenty five students in the Engineering school to participate in the Clark School's Future Faculty Program (FFP) (February 2007). More ...

Won the best student paper award in IEEE ICASSP 2005
My paper on Security of Feature Extraction in Image Hashing was selected as the winner of the best student paper contetxt in Multimedia Signal Processing category. (April 2005). More ...


Education

Ph.D. Candidate, degree expected May 2008
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland College Park
Research adviser: Prof. Min Wu
Major: Communications & Signal processing
Minor: Controls

Master of Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland College Park

B.Tech, August 2003
Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras


Contact

E-mail: ashwins [AT] umd [DOT] edu
Current Office: 2244, Kim Building
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Maryland, College Park,
Phone: (301) 405 3347