Mr . Rajan Bala
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Mr . Rajan Bala
Head | Senior Lecturer- Department of information Technology | Director of Strategic operation-Nothern UNI
Faculty of Computing | Department of Information Technology
Career Summary
- 2024 June – Present – Head of Department, IT Faculty, Northern Uni
- 2023 January – 2023 Oct – Head of Engineering, AWS Billing Consoles & Applications, Amazon Web Services
- 2022 Apr – 2022 Nov – Sr. Director of Engineering, Loblaw Digital
- 2016 Oct – 2022 Mar – Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Customer Service Technology, Amazon.com
- 2013 May – 2016 Oct – Co-Founder/CTO, hiku labs inc.
Academic Qualifications
- M.Eng, Telecommunications Engineering and Management, Carleton University, Canada
- B.Eng, Computer Systems Engineering (High Distinction), Minor in Psychology, Carleton University, Canada
Honors and Awards
- First Prize in BlackBerry Game Development (2003)
- Inventor Awards by Amazon for 5 Patents (2016-2022)
- High Distinction award for Computer Systems Engineering
- Inventor Award by BlackBerry for Seamless push email handover in a dual stack radio devices (2006)
Interests
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning to improve emotion detection from voice conversations
- AI and Natural Language Processing to reduce the amount of physician transcribing to increase the quality of patient care
- Leverage Internets of Things to improve the quality of life of disable and unable human beings
- Leverage IoT and Machine Learning to prevent pandemics and epidemics
Memberships
- Improving the accuracy of emotion detection in voice conversations