Ramakrishnan A. G. is an adjunct faculty at the Dept. of Heritage Science and Technology at IIT Hyderabad. Earlier, he was a professor of Electrical Engineering and an associate faculty member at the Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore till July 2023. He obtained his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Madras. He graduated 22 Ph.D.s, 16 M.Tech.s by research, and guided over 100 M. Tech. projects at IISc. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. As the leader of a research consortium, he was instrumental in creating handwriting recognition technologies for eight Indian languages. He received Manthan award (South East Asia and Asia Pacific) twice for creating audio books for blind students through his OCR and TTS in Tamil and Kannada. His areas of research included speech synthesis and recognition in Indic languages, decoding of imagined words from EEG, brain functional connectivity analysis in modified states of consciousness and the effects of controlled breathing on brain and heart. For his work on evoked potentials from leprosy patients, he received Sir Watt Kay Young Researcher’s Prize from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bangalore India from May 2002 to August 2003.
He was an invited member of the Senate of IIIT-Allahabad, Prayagraj and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry – Indian Language Internet Alliance. He was a member of the Knowledge Commission, Government of Karnataka during 2017-2020. He is also one of the founder directors of RaGaVeRa Indic Technologies private limited recognized by Karnataka Government as one of the Elevate 2019 Startup winners. The Kannada TTS developed by RaGaVeRa has been evaluated to be better in quality than Google’s Wavenet TTS and Nuance’s Kannada TTS. He is also the Head of Business Development of Bhashini AI Solutions Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.