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years of technical, design and architectural experience (in embedded and
distributed software engineering); 13 years of technical people/project
leadership both local & international, 10 years of Division
P&L/Leadership responsibility, world-market quality product R&D
experience in MNC, enabling rapid research results into commercialization;
leading industry partnership; diverse R&D experience and a self-guided,
visionary, innovator, people focused and results-oriented leader; 50>
Intl-Patents filed/granted, >70 Intl Papers/Publications]
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Ettikan
KK., with Ph.D (in the area of Distributed Computing), MSc
(Computer Science) and Bachelor of Computer Science is currently attached to Nvidia (Singapore) as Director of Developers’ Ecosystem, APAC
South assisting innovators, researchers and techno-entrepreneurs to accelerate
GPU adaptation for their R&D and software solutioning needs using various
methods including Deep Learning/Machine Learning. He has direct experience and
passionate in accelerated computing/software research, design and development
covering end-to-end needs.
Prior
to this he was with TM R&D as GM for Computational Sciences Division
responsible for Division Leadership with 5 different R&D Labs, overseeing
various type of projects including commercialized R&D projects, research
projects, PoC projects, to be commercialized projects, university collaborative
projects and direct business engagement project. Previously he was with MIMOS
Bhd @ Information Communication Division as Principal Researcher and
Director of Accelerative Technology Lab. He was responsible at different
lead capacity/role in the areas including organization/division level Research
Definition & Management, Group/Team Leadership, Software Architecture,
Design Architecture and Solution Architecture. During this period (MIMOS), he
and his team (Accelerative Technology Lab which was formed by him in 2012)
undertook various R&D Projects in the area of BigData Analytics, Algorithm
Design/Optimization, Network Protocols, Cluster Computing, Configurable
Networks, Wireless Protocol for Embedded Systems, GP/GPU, FPGA,
Many/Multicores, Distributed Computing, AV Processing, P2P, QoS, Data
Processing, Machine Learning, Image Analytics, System
Optimization/Parallelization and System Performance Acceleration. His team has
been granted with various internal & external grants for the above projects
R&D. Current primary focus being in various domain (Text/String, Image,
Video, Network Protocol, Finance, Crypto, Statistical, Predictive) algorithm
R&D, Library Design, Distributed/Parallel System that translates into
patents, libraries, middleware/framework/application software, papers and
application. Some of the example of applications that uses the
libraries/software includes fraud detection (AML), data cleansing (PERKESO),
MoH (Data Warehouse), MoHR (Jobs Malaysia Search Engine), PDRM (Data Analytics,
Customs (Image/Data Analytics), Financial Risk Management, Data
Scrambling/Encryption/Decryption, Video Conferencing, Large Data Analytics,
Network Processor, Video Enc/Dec etc.
Being
the leader, he has successfully drove key research activities leading to on
time project delivery which was later taken-up by other software development
team within MIMOS, Contract Research Partners and also external companies
(Technology Recipients) as part of software platform for commercialization
purposes. During this period he was instrumental and lead in establishing a
“GPU R&D and Compute Solution Center” (http://gpu.mimos.my) jointly funded
and governed by Nvidia, HP and MIMOS, serving as the center of GPGPU related
R&D activities by collaborating with international companies, universities
and industry partners. He also holds various other roles & responsibilities
within the department. The R&D work cuts across multiple Labs, technical
areas and expertise for which he is directly involved for innovative &
novel solution creation. He also serves various other roles at external
organizations in advisory roles such as MDeC, and Universities.
Previously
(2005-2011) he was with Panasonic R&D Centre Malaysia, Cyberjaya as Principal
Engineer (cum Group Manager) being responsible in IP, AV, distributed and
embedded communications protocol R&D activities. Being the first to be
hired for PKLL/A TDG department (Panasonic Kuala Lumpur Laboratory/Advanced
Technology Development Group), he was responsible to setup, initiate
collaborative R&D activities with Corporate Lab partners in Japan
(Hub)/Singapore and formulating R&D strategies, processes and methodology
for the newly established Lab. Beside department leadership/management
activities, he also directly involved in R&D activities where 18JP/International
patents [15-Independent & 3- Dependent] were successfully applied (in
the process of granting/published/applied) in the Home Networking/Network
Processing products (4 successful key CE products) and ~45 reviewed
conference/book chapter/journal paper publications. In year 2009, under his
leadership PKLL/ATDG was awarded STAR grant (by MDeC/Malaysian Government Agency)
for strategic research activities at PKLL/ATDG as part of Panasonic corporate
research lab program. During this period he was actively engaged at various
lead role including managing, leading, researching & developing solutions
in embedded system communication areas at ATDG.
Previously
he was with Infrastructure Software Organization, Infrastructure Processor
Division of Intel Corporation <2005-2001>, Penang, Malaysia, as
Manager/Lead/Sr.N/W S/W Engineer. During this period, he has worked on IXP1200 ATM/AAL2
design and development, NAT/NAPT design for IXP2400/2800, IXP225 Embedded
Network Processors (NP) System Testing and led the IXP4XX/IXP2XXX NP System
Test team. During this period he has successfully obtained 4 US patents
(2-Independent & 2-Dependent - Granted). He was also responsible for
IXP225 System Test knowledge transfer back to Penang from Intel-Ireland and
setting up the new team including the system test lab. Besides, he also played
the consulting role as the IPv6 expert for the department in various
projects/instances. Prior to joining Intel, Ettikan was with Multimedia
University, Cyberjaya (MMU) (2000) as a Lecturer in
the area of Computer Communications, High Speed Networks and Programming. He
also held R&D Engineer position with NTT MSC Sdn Bhd (1999) working in
ATM/IP related research areas. Prior to that he was a lecturer at Stamford
College Penang (1998-1997) while working on his Master’s Degree.
He
is also actively engaged in technology sharing programs with local/foreign
Universities serving various positions (Industry Advisory Panel); University
Program Chair for Intel/Panasonic-MMU; Research Project Mentor; Research Guide
HCMUT/Vietnam; Joint Project with USM/MMU/UTAR etc; Guest Lecturesetc). He has
performed multiple consultancy services specific to his area of expertise
within and external to his company. He was a certified PMP and has wide
project/people management experience from the above mentioned projects, cross
teams, region & culture. IEEE member and participates in IETF activities.
Contact: ettikankk at gmail dot com or ettikankk
at yahoo dot com
-Oct 2016-