Education

• Ph.D - (2009-2012)
- Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
- Area: Microelectronics/Nanoelectronics
- Research: Modeling and Design of 3D Imager IC
- Advisor: Prof. Ian O’Connor, Dr.David Navarro
- Group: Heterogeneous Systems Design (www.inl.cnrs.fr)
• Masters of Science - (2007 - 2009)
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)- Switzerland, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)- France, Politecnico di Torino- Italy
- Area: Microelectronics and Nanotechnology for Integrated Systems
• Masters research - (2008 - 2009)
  - Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
  - Area: Micro and Nanoelectronics
• Bachelors - (2003 - 2007)
- Amrita University, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, India
- Area: Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE)

Professional experience

• Jablotron Alarms a.s (10/12 - till date)
- Project: ARDENT
- Researcher: Development of electronics for hand held radiation monitoring systems using medipix/timepix detectors
• Lyon institute of nanotechnology - (10/09- 09/12)
- French national project (ANR) titled “3D IDEAS”
- Partners: ST Microelectronics, CEA-Leti,InESS, IMEP-LAHC
- Doctoral research focused on
- Development of methods and tools to perform heterogeneous design space exploration
- Thermal management, floorplanning on 3D Image sensor
• Embedded Systems Laboratory & IBM Zurich research labs - (02/09 - 09/09)
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Research: Modeling of Liquid cooling mechanisms for 3D chips
- Project: CMOSAIC, Nano-Tera- Swiss federal funded project
- Advisor: Prof. David Atienza Alonso & Prof.Jose L.Ayala
- Microchannel liquid cooling for 3D IC’s were modeled to show the cooling efficiency with various flow rate for different thermal profiles and floorplans.
• Integrated systems laboratory (Summer '08 & 09/08 - 02/09)
- Research & Part time research: Modeling of thermal aware 3D chips
- Collaboration: IMEC, Belgium
-Advisor: Prof. Giovanni de Micheli & Prof. David Atienza Alonso
- 3D ICs with high power density creates hot spots causing aging, leakage issues. 3D Compact thermal model was developed to investigate thermal aspects of 3D chips

Current work

• Market study
• Investigation of applications in radiation dosimetry
• Development of medipix based radiation monitoring system
Design of medipix/timepix monitoring system
Interface development for hand held device
Development of educational kit for high schools
• Testing and prototype verification
• Certification and production

Participations in meetings, conferences, etc

• Presentation at Czech republic foreign ministry, 23 September 2012
• 1st annual radiation dosimetry workshop, Vienna, 20-23 November 2012
• MMNT-IPCT 2012, University of Wollongong, Australia, 6-9 December 2012

Publications

• Previous publications (Journal, Conference, Colloque etc)
Viswanathan.V, Frantz.F,Feng.Z, Navarro.D, O'Connor.I, "3D IC: Fast imager thermal simulation", Elsevier journal for system architecture (Under review)
Viswanathan.V, Frantz.F,Feng.Z,Navarro.D,O’Connor.I, "Imager temperature modeling",WASC Smart Camera, Clermont Ferrand, France, April 5-6,2012
Viswanathan.V,Labrak.L, Frantz.F,Navarro.D,O’Connor.I, "Model based design of Imager using abstraction segregated parameter dependency graphs", NEWCAS 2011, Bordeaux, France, June 26-29,2011
Navarro.D, Feng.Z, Viswanathan.V,Carrel.L,O’Connor.I,"Imager tool box for CMOS image sensors in Cadence ADE", Demset 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA, November 29th – December 2nd, 2011
Viswanathan.V, Labrak.L, Frantz.F, Navarro.D, O’Connor.I, "Model based design of Imager pixel matrix", GDR SoC SiP colloque 2011, Lyon, France.
Viswanathan.V, Labrak.L, Frantz.F, Navarro.D, O’Connor.I, "Model based design of Imager pixel matrix", GDR Green SoC SiP colloque 2011, Montpellier, France. (Poster)
Viswanathan.V, Navarro.D,Labrak.L, O’Connor.I, "High level modeling of Imager IC", GDR SoC SiP 2010, Paris, France.
Viswanathan.V, Navarro.D,Labrak.L, O’Connor.I, "High level modeling of Imager IC", D43D workshop 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland. (Poster)
Frantz.F,Labrak.L,Viswanathan.V, O’Connor.I, "Heterogeneous 3D design methods and tools", FETCH 2010, Chamonix, France

Trainings

• In-house training at Jablotron Alarms a.s (2012)
Quality management training
JA-100 security alarm training
Purchase/Selection training
AZOR security alarm installation training
Organization structure training
Logistics/Supply chain/ERP training
Czech language