14271 Jeffrey Road, Suite 140, Irvine, CA, 92620
Qualifications
| Thought Leadership | Technical Expertise | Business Acumen |
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Accomplishments
Led Mayachitra’s NIH-funded (through an STTR) commercialization of technology transferred from UC Santa Barbara’s Biology & Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
Envisioned and led the development of DV Studio’s platform products for CD-Recording (CDR) and MPEG encoding that helped drive CD-R technology to the general public.
Published “CD-Recordable Bible,” a world-recognized and translated reference book.
Received the 1996 annual award (Private Sector Technology – CD-R) of the Special Interest Group for CD-ROM Applications and Technology (SIGCAT), the largest CD-ROM user group in the world.
Experience
| ASSAYSOFT, INC., Fountain Valley, CA Principal Scientist |
2008 – Present |
Developed cellAnalyst image mining software for high throughput microscopy. This software was developed for Windows platform (C#/.NET). The same application is also developed for WEB using ASP.NET/AJAX. www.assaysoft.com
| MAYACHITRA, INC., Santa Barbara, CA Principal Scientist |
2005 – 2007 |
Led Maychitra’s technology research and development activities, providing the vision, direction, and expertise necessary to drive innovation.
Developed dbVision, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) Software for the storage and retrieval of biomedical images.
- Developed in C#/.NET and MATLAB on a Windows XP platform.
- Indexing of images by metadata, annotation, and content (Homogeneous Texture and Edge Histogram).
| DV STUDIO, INC., Santa Ana, CA Product Manager |
1991 – 2004 |
Envisioned and provided the technical oversight necessary to develop a number of successful products that changed the technological landscape of CD-Recording (CDR) and MPEG encoding.
Led the development of real-time MPEG-2/MPEG-1 encoder boards for use in DVD/VideoCD creation, including:
- Apollo Expert – Encoder card widely used by the OEM DVD and SuperVCD market.
Spearheaded the development of user-friendly and highly-functional CD/DVD burning software launched in 1992 for use with Philips, Yamaha, and Sony CD burners; revolutionizing the mainstream accessibility of CDR technology.
- CD Gen – Pre-mastering product.
| DISC MANUFACTURING, INC. (CINRAM), Anaheim, CA Member of Technical Staff |
1989 – 1991 |
Developed multiple software applications designed to control the CD mastering machine (6502 Microprocessor Assembly Language) and transfer data from 8mm Exabyte tape to a Laser Beam Recorder (C/DOS).
| ORACLE CORPORATION, El Seguendo, CA Member of Technical Staff |
1988 – 1989 |
Consulted with key Oracle clients, providing technical expertise necessary to resolve relational database design issues.
Developed Federal (US Navy and Social Security) database applications using Oracle DBMS.
Built C and Oracle applications for use on a VAX/VMS system.
Additional technical experience developing database management software (Oracle-VAX/VMS), instruction mapping (prelude to RISC processor concept).
- Xerox Corporation, El Seguendo, CA (1986-1987)
- AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL (1980-1985)
- General Electric, Stamford, CT (1978-1980)
Education
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1984
Thesis: “A Methodology for Supporting Views in Relational Databases”
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence, KS
M.S. in Computer Science, 1978
Thesis: “Homogeneous Computer Cluster Models”
UNIVERSITY OF ROORKEE, Roorkee, India
Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, 1976
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, Pilani, India
Bachelor of Engineering (HONS) – Electrical Engineering, 1975
Publications & Citations
BOOK
- CD-Recordable Bible, Pemberton Press 1994. Translated in German and Japanese languages.
ARTICLES
- Saveliev, P., Pahwa, A., “A Topological Approach to Cell Counting”, BioImage Informatics Workshop, UCSB, January 2008.
- Meyer, J., Pahwa, A., “A Novel Method for Efficient Archiving and Retrieval of Biomedical Images using MPEG-7,” SPIE conference, October 2004.
- Pahwa, A., Godfrey, S., “Content Search and Extraction via MPEG-7″, NAB Conf. Proceedings, April 2004.
- Pahwa, Ash, “Homogeneous Computer Cluster Models”, ACM Computer Science Conference, Kansas City, Feb. 1980 (M.S. Thesis).
- Pahwa, Ash, Arora, A.K., “Automatic Database Navigation: Towards a High Level User Interface”, 4th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach, October 1985, Chicago (Ph.D. Thesis).
Academic Instruction
DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
University of California – San Diego, 2009
University of California – Irvine, 2007
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 2004
MATLAB Programming
University of California – San Diego, 2008
University of California – Los Angeles, 2009
ASP.NET Programming
University of California – Los Angeles, 2009
MAKING YOUR OWN DVD
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 2000
PROGRAMMING IN C for Embedded Processors
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 2005
DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC (DVD)
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 1998
DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION AND DVD
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 1997
MPEG AND VIDEO CD
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 1997
CD-ROM DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 1993-1995
University of Oxford – United Kingdom, 1994
CD-ROM AND MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
University of Southern California, 1992-1993
INFO 93 Tel-Aviv, 1993
MULTIMEDIA
ACM Conference – Los Angeles, 1992
CD-ROM TECHNOLOGY: IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS
University of California – Los Angeles Extension, 1991
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago, 1983
