Education
Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., USA
Current GPA: 5.0/5.0 |
06/2011 (expected) |
S.M. in Media Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., USA
GPA: 5.0/5.0 |
09/2007 |
| Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Computer Science, Electronics and Automatic Systems, Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique Electronique Automatique (ESIEA), Paris, France |
12/1996 |
| Baccalauréat (French High-School diploma) in Science, La Source, Meudon, France |
07/1991 |
Experience
| Research Assistant, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass. |
09/2005 - present |
| Technical Leader, Delphi (ex-Delphi Automotive Systems), Technical Center India, Bangalore |
08/2002 - 05/2005 |
| Senior Consultant, Altran Europe, Brussels, Belgium |
02/1999 - 07/2002 |
| DSP Software Engineer (consultant), Philips Digital Systems Laboratories (PDSL) (ex-International Technology Centre Leuven (ITCL), now NXP Software), Leuven, Belgium |
02/1999 - 07/2001 |
| Software Engineer (contractor), CCF Elysées Bourse (now HSBC Securities), Paris, France |
06/1998 - 10/1998 |
| Project Leader (French National Service), Carr Futures (ex-Indosuez Carr Futures, now Calyon Financial), Chicago, Ill., USA |
02/1997 - 05/1998 |
Internships & Assistantships
| Teaching Assistant, Information and Communication Technologies for Development, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA |
02/2008 - 06/2008 |
| Software Engineer, Crédit Agricole Indosuez (now Calyon), Paris, France |
02/1996 - 12/1996 |
| Intern, Teledec Interactive, Oak Brook, Ill., USA |
07/1995 - 08/1995 |
| Trainee, Aurocomp, Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pondicherry, India |
07/1993 - 08/1993 |
Publications
| M. Sarkar, “TablaNet: a Real-Time Online Musical Collaboration System for Indian Percussion,” Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 10, 2007. |
| M. Sarkar, B. Vercoe, “Recognition and Prediction in a Network Music Performance System for Indian Percussion,” International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2007), New York, NY, USA, June 6-9, 2007. |
| M. Sarkar, B. Vercoe, and Y. Yang, “Words that describe timbre: a study of auditory perception through language” [abstract], Language and Music as Cognitive Systems Conference (LMCS-2007), Cambridge, UK, May 11-13, 2007. |
| M. Sarkar, A Floating-Point to Fixed-Point Conversion Methodology for Audio Algorithms, technical report, Delphi, Bangalore, India, 2004. |
| M. Sarkar, Analyse et développement d’une application en architecture client/serveur pour le traitement des réponses aux opérations sur titres [Analysis and development of a software application in client/server architecture to process answers to corporate actions], mémoire industriel [master’s thesis], ESIEA, Paris, France, December 1996 (in French). |
Talks & Outreach
| “Tabla Duos at a Distance with Prediction,” invited talk, High Quality Audio over Networks Summit (ANET II), The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Apr. 11, 2008. |
| “Connecting people through music: making music with anyone, anywhere,” Small Talks, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, Oct. 24, 2007. |
| “Tabla Strokes Recognition,” project presentation, MAS.622, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, Dec. 2006. |
| “The Sound of Music,” MIT Educational Studies Program (ESP) Splash!, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, Nov. 2006. |
| “Musical Features of Intermediate Complexity for Music Recognition,” project presentation, 6.833, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, Jun. 2006. |
| “Perceptual Synthesizer,” project presentation, MAS.641, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, Dec. 2005. |
| “The UML for Embedded Multimedia Applications,” Delphi, Bangalore, India, Nov. 2004. |
| “A Strategy for Floating-Point to Fixed-Point Conversion for Audio Applications,” Delphi, Bangalore, India, Mar. 2004. |
| “DSP Systems for Infotainment Applications,” Delphi, Bangalore, India, Nov. 2003. |
| “Offshore Relationship Management: a CMM-Compliant Software Subcontract Management Platform,” Altran Europe, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 2002. |
| “Audio Coding: from MP3 to AAC,” DISiP seminar, Altran Europe, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 2001. |
| “Next Generation Audio,” DISiP workshop, Altran Europe, Brussels, Belgium, May 2001. |
| “Acoustic Echo Cancellation in Automotive Systems,” Philips Software Centre, Bangalore, India, Jan. 2001. |
| “Future Music,” Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, India, Dec. 2000. |
Supervisory Duties & Academic Activities
| A. Dhar, S. Kacker, “India Initiatives,” MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Sep.-Dec. 2008. |
| B. Gür, T. Ngai, “Audio Engineering,” MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Sep.-Dec. 2008. |
| J. Diaz, C. Lan (from Sep.), “Sound Design with Everyday Words,” MIT, Cambridge, Mass., June-Dec. 2008. |
| B. Assefa, C.M. Lin “India Initiatives,” MIT, Cambridge, Mass., June-Aug. 2008. |
| Reviewer, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2008. |
| Y. Yang, “Building a Perceptually Based Sound Synthesizer,” MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Sep. 2006-May 2007. |
| P. Swaroop, V.R. Vasisht, “Implementation of MELP Vocoder,” BMSCE, Bangalore, India, Feb.-May 2005. |
| K.I. Ganapathy, P. Hegde, V. Joshi, “Low Bitrate Speech Codec,” SJCE, Mysore, India, Feb.-May 2004. |
| K.A. Kumar, V. Rajashekar, P. Nagesh, P.K. Dixit, “An Adaptive Approach for Acoustic Echo Cancellation,” SJCE, Mysore, India, Feb.-May 2004. |
| A. Paresh, “Acoustic Echo Cancellation for Automotive Environments,” NIE, Mysore, India, Feb.-May 2003. |
Professional Training
| Digital Signal Processing: Spectral and Physical Models (DSP), CCRMA Summer Workshop, Stanford University (2 weeks), 2008. |
| Software Engineering (SW-1), Delphi Global Software College (40 hours), 2004. |
| Building Effective Teams, NIS Sparta (16 hours), 2004. |
| Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Philips Centre for Technical Training (96 hours), 2000-2001. |
| Project Management, Institute for Management, Altran (12 hours), 2000. |
| Philips REAL Embedded DSP, Philips Centre for Technical Training (16 hours), 1999. |
| Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Education & Training (40 hours), 1996, 1997. |
Technical Skills
| Programming Languages: |
C/C++, Python, Visual Basic |
| Assembly (processors): |
NEC V850, Texas Instruments TMS320C55x, Philips (now NXP) REAL RD16x |
| Operating Systems: |
Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (3.1 to XP), QNX, 200C (Delphi proprietary RTOS) |
| Development Environments: |
Apple Xcode, Microsoft Visual Studio, Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio, Borland Codewright, IBM Rational Rose |
| Graphical User Interfaces: |
FLTK |
| Computing Software: |
The Mathworks MATLAB |
| Databases: |
SQL, Microsoft Access, IBM DB2 |
| Publishing Software: |
LaTeX & BibTex, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, Adobe PageMaker |
| Audio Software: |
Csound, Max/MSP, Propellerhead Reason, Audacity, Adobe Audition, Steinberg Cubase, Cakewalk |
| Graphics & Video Software: |
Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Autodesk 3ds Max |
Leadership Experience & Management Skills
| President, India Initiatives, MIT Media Lab, Mass., 2008-2009. |
| Co-founder & Coordinator, Digital Image and Signal Processing workgroup, Altran Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 1999-2002. |
| Multi-site project management |
| Multicultural team building |
| Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM) (now replaced by the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)) |
Languages
| French, English: |
fluent |
| Dutch, German: |
intermediate |
| Bengali, Tamil: |
spoken |
| Hindi: |
basic |
Music & Sound
| Keyboards (Indian-Western fusion, pop/rock, and some Western classical) |
| Tabla (Hindustani) |
| Pulangoil, Indian bamboo flute (Carnatic) |
| Formed several bands and played live on various occasions. |
Other Interests
| Radio Jockey, Bombay Lounge, WMBR (MIT campus radio station), Cambridge, Mass., USA, June-Sep. 2006. |
| Disk Jockey & Light Jockey in clubs and at private parties in Paris, France. |
| Sound engineer, Soleil d’Or (Indian cultural centre), Paris, France. |
| Travel: Canada, Peru, USA, Egypt, India, Europe. |
| Sports: yoga, skiing, ice skating. |
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