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Murali RaviMedical Instrumentation

Funded projects

₹570 Lakhs of sponsored
research, across four domains.

Six projects spanning fourteen years: from rebuilding a planar gamma camera as a project associate to leading industrial AI/ML programmes as principal consultant.

Total funding
₹570 Lakhs
Projects
6
As PI
2
Span
2012-2027

Distribution

Where the funding went.

Medical & Gamma Imaging

₹274L48%

Hardware Acceleration

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Voice Biometrics & Edge AI

₹6L1%

Optical Networks & AI/ML

₹290L51%

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Total awarded across 6 projects

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Funding agencies: NOKIA Corp., Analog Devices, Inc., DAE-BRNS, DST

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Projects led as Principal Investigator or Consultant

Complete register

Every sponsored project.

Optical Networks & AI/MLPrincipal ConsultantActive

Application of AI/ML to hardware manufacturing, optical networks and optical algorithm design and testing of OWAP tool

The current NOKIA engagement, extending the AI/ML mandate from network and algorithm design into hardware manufacturing, alongside testing of the OWAP tool.

Agency

NOKIA Corp.

Awarded

INR 140 Lakhs

Period

2026-27

Optical Networks & AI/MLPrincipal ConsultantActive

Application of AI/ML to optical networks and optical algorithm design and testing of ONEP Tool

The largest single award of the programme. Applies machine learning to optical network design and optical algorithm development, with testing of the ONEP tool.

Agency

NOKIA Corp.

Awarded

INR 150 Lakhs

Period

2025-2026

Voice Biometrics & Edge AIPrincipal InvestigatorActive

Design and Implementation of a PoC for Voice Authentication in Cars using an ML approach

A proof-of-concept for in-vehicle speaker verification running entirely at the edge. Produced ECAPA-Lite with a lightweight prosody encoder, quantised to INT8 for deployment on ARM Cortex-A55.

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Agency

Analog Devices, Inc.

Awarded

INR 6 Lakhs

Period

2025-2026

Medical & Gamma ImagingPrincipal Investigator

Design and Development of Gamma-Fluorescence Dual Imaging Sentinel Lymph Node Navigation Surgery Intraoperative Probe

Six years as Principal Investigator producing SAIGC-Torch: a completely handheld probe combining indocyanine green fluorescence with Technetium-99m gamma detection for sentinel lymph node navigation during cancer surgery.

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Agency

DAE-BRNS

Awarded

INR 108 Lakhs

Period

2017-2023

Medical & Gamma ImagingProject Associate

Design and Development of Small Organ Imaging Gamma Camera System

The project that produced SAIGC: a portable, high-resolution small field-of-view gamma camera built on a segmented CZT detector, carried from Monte Carlo simulation through to clinical validation.

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Agency

DST

Awarded

INR 96 Lakhs

Period

2016-2021

Medical & Gamma ImagingProject Associate

Modification of a planar gamma camera and its upgradation for supporting education, training and research in medical imaging

The foundation. Rebuilding and upgrading a planar gamma camera created both a teaching instrument and the hands-on detector knowledge that every later project was built on.

Agency

DAE-BRNS

Awarded

INR 70 Lakhs

Period

2012-2015