Gawthaman Senthilvelan

Experience

ASIC Engineer Intern

Qualcomm · Markham, ON

May 2026

Incoming May 2026

Machine Learning Researcher

RBC Borealis · Toronto, ON

Oct 2025 – Present

Machine learning optimization of atmospheric water harvesting systems

Software Developer

Acceleration Consortium · Toronto, ON

May 2025 – Aug 2025

Bayesian optimization for laboratory automation

Researcher

Advanced Membranes Lab · Toronto, ON

May 2024 – Aug 2024

Advanced synthesis of membranes for high-pressure reverse osmosis | Supervisor: Dr. Jay Werber

Projects

Deep learning computer vision system for chess piece recognition achieving 99.5% accuracy using ResNet-inspired CNN with OpenCV preprocessing

Built an RF front-end that filters, downconverts, and amplifies 8–16 MHz HF signals with quadrature mixer producing phase-accurate I/Q signals for SDR integration

Mar 2025 – Apr 2025

Real-time robotic arm controller using C on NIOS V soft processor with AXI memory-mapped I/O, custom PID loop, VGA dashboard, and I²C bridge for PWM servo control

FFT-based spectral analysis on FPGA using SystemVerilog for real-time audio DSP with MATLAB filter ports to ARM Cortex-M for embedded benchmarking