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Gogul Ilango B.E., M.E., is an Engineer, Music Producer and Writer. Currently, I work as a Principal Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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I was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. I completed Class VII from E.B.G Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai. I completed Class XII from Mahatma Montessori Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai with an engineering cutoff mark of 197.5 out of 200.
I earned my B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai where I secured a CGPA of 9.06 out of 10 (first class with distinction). Apart from academics, I actively participated as a music keyboardist in my college cultural programs.
After getting my bachelor degree, I worked as an Assistant Systems Engineer for 1 yr 2 months at Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai and then, decided to pursue higher education. I received my M.E. degree from Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems where I was advised by my mentor Dr. V. Sathiesh Kumar sir. I secured a CGPA of 9.96 out of 10 (first class with distinction) and received the prestigious university gold medal for my academic performance. Along with my professor and co-authors, I published 5 research papers in top international conferences and journals.
During 2014, I started my professional career at Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai where I worked on development projects that involved full-stack web development, android app development and front-end web design. This was the time in my career where I started loving computer programming. During 2016, I worked as a Graduate Technical Intern at Nokia, Chennai where I further honed my automation and full-stack web development skills.
During 2017, I worked as a Senior Hardware Engineer in SOC Physical Design team at Qualcomm, Chennai where I was responsible for converging complex multi-million gate designs (block-level and top-level) of cutting-edge audio, wireless and IoT chips to achieve the best PPA (Performance, Power and Area) under stringent schedules. Parallelly, I was designing, developing and maintaining internal automation tools and interactive dashboards to enhance physical design engineers productivity for faster design convergence. During my job as a physical design engineer, some of the industry-standard Electronic Design Automation tools that I used for my work are Cadence Innovus, Synopsys ICC2, Synopsys PrimeTime, Synopsys Tweaker, Apache RedHawk and Siemens Calibre.
Currently, I work as a Principal Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, Bangalore where I contribute to the development of Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer.
Below is a summary of my education and professional career timeline.
Time spent in engineering
VLSI Design & Embedded Systems
Madras Institute of Technology
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Electronics & Communication
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Cadence Design Systems · Full-time
Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Hybrid
Feb 2023-now
Qualcomm · Full-time
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Nokia · Internship
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Onsite
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Tata Consultancy Services · Full-time
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Onsite
Jun 2014 - Aug 2015
Author - Alexandre DuBreuil
Technical Reviewer - Gogul Ilango
Publisher - Packt Publishing, United Kingdom
What's in? - Design and use machine learning models for music generation using Google's Magenta and make them interact with existing music creation tools.
bookV Mohanraj, S Sibi Chakkaravarthy, I Gogul, V Sathiesh Kumar, R Kumar, V Vaidehi
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 1411-1419, 2018
paperMohan Raj, I. Gogul, M. Deepan Raj, V. Sathiesh Kumar, V. Vaidehi, S. Sibi Chakkaravarthy
Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing: CVIP-2017, Volume 1, pages 317-330, Springer Singapore
paperI.Gogul, V. Sathiesh Kumar
2017 Fourth International Conference on Signal Processing, Communication and Networking (ICSCN), pages 1-6, IEEE
paperM. Deepan Raj, I. Gogul, M. Thangaraja, V. Sathiesh Kumar
2017 Trends in Industrial Measurement and Automation (TIMA), pages 1-6, IEEE
paperV. Sathiesh Kumar, I.Gogul, M. Deepan Raj, S.K.Pragadesh, J. Sarathkumar Sebastin
Procedia Computer Science, volume 93, 2016, pages 975-981, Elsivier, ICACC-2016
paperI believe in life-long learning as it enhances my knowledge and spirit. Here, I document all the technical courses that I have taken in this lifetime.
| Course Name | Issued Date | Provider | Credential | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business English Certificate | Nov 2013 | University of Cambridge | - |
| 2 | Neural Networks and Deep Learning | Dec 2017 | Coursera | 8WBUXEEL363X |
| 3 | Sequence Models | Jun 2019 | Coursera | WJJGDMT2XKD4 |
| 4 | Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow | Jun 2019 | Coursera | GEM478PB2SQ9 |
| 5 | Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning | Jun 2019 | Coursera | 4VDRRPKYF9EG |
| 6 | Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow | Jun 2019 | Coursera | XCW2KCHMWCDZ |
| 7 | TensorFlow in Practice Specialization | Sep 2019 | Coursera | A5TFAHFYTR98 |
| 8 | Sequences, Time Series and Prediction | Sep 2019 | Coursera | 88YCMHDBRFV9 |
| 9 | Cadence Cerebrus Certification Program | Feb 2023 | Cadence Design Systems | - |
| 10 | Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer v22.1 (Online) | May 2023 | Cadence Design Systems | - |
Below are the list of courses that I have taken during my master's degree which I professionally feel is the best time of my life.
Discipline: VLSI Design and Embedded Systems
College: Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai (2015-2017)
Below are the list of courses that I have taken during my bachelor's degree which I personally feel is the best time of my life.
Discipline: Electronics and Communication Engineering
College: Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai (2010-2014)
Whenever I find free-time apart from my full-time job, I focus on creating, programming, arranging, mixing and mastering instrumental covers of famous film composers around the planet. To create these covers, I use original music production software and hardware.
Below are the list of YouTube videos that I have released till now.
| 1 | 14 Sep 2012 | VINAYIN VIDAI ~ Tamil Short Film |