Praveen Ranganath

Co-Founder and Director | Consultant and Sr. Engineer | Data Scientist

About Me

Professional Summary: An experienced leader in Computational Technologies and Physics, currently serving as Co-Founder and Director at Chakradhari Computational Technologies and Senior Engineer at Turing. Extensive background spanning Data Analytics, Photonics, Radar Signal Processing, and Research Systems across institutions in the United States and India.

A Personal Note: Thank you for visiting my site. I am a physicist and engineer turned computational scientist, with a career spanning research labs, global enterprises, and entrepreneurship. My work sits at the intersection of applied physics, machine intelligence, and systems engineering — a combination shaped by years of hands-on research experience. My dual master's degrees built a foundation in rigorous scientific thinking that has guided everything I have built since. From the lab, I moved into industry and consulting, applying machine learning and analytics at scale. Other details can be found on the respective tabs. More details will be added often, so feel free to visit frequently.

Professional Experience

Co-Founder and Director

Chakradhari Computational Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Present

Sr. Engineer (Research Systems)

Turing, CA, US (Remote)

2022 - Present

Principal Consultant, Applied Data Science

Talentsprint, Hyderabad, India (Remote)

2021 - 2022

Lead Data Scientist, Data Analytics

Sutherland Global, Bangalore, India

2019 - 2021

Project Associate, Photonics Research Lab

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

2017 - 2019

Center for Nanoscience and Engineering.

Sr. Research Fellow, Photonics Research Lab

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

2015 - 2017

Center for Nanoscience and Engineering.

Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

Dept. of Physics, Alabama A&M University, US

2013 - 2014

Education

MS, Physics

Alabama A&M University, Normal, US

2012 - 2014

Major: Optics | Minor: Electromagnetics

MS, Electrical Engineering

University of Alabama, Huntsville, US

2010 - 2012

Thesis: Radar Signal Processing | Advisor: Prof. John L. Stensby

BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering

BMS Institute of Technology, India

2006 - 2010

Project: Autonomous Vehicular Safety Systems

Selected Publications

Climate-Resilient Agriculture: Leveraging Language Models for Mitigation and Adaptation

S. Rao, P. Ranganath. In: Srivastava, R.K., Chakraborty, A. (eds) Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies Against Climate Change in Natural Systems. Environmental Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. (2025)
High-efficiency vertical fibre-to-polymer waveguide coupling scheme for scalable polymer photonic circuits

A. Kumar, S. Nambiar, R. Kallega, P. Ranganath, et al. Optics Express, 29, 9699-9710 (2021).
Tuning and Actuation of Graphene Nanomechanical Resonator using Optical Gradient Force

A. Dash, C. Samanta, P. Ranganath, S.K. Selvaraja, and A.K. Naik. Journal of Optics, pp.065803 (May 2019).
High-efficiency SiN Grating Fiber-Chip Coupler with Bottom Reflector

Nambiar S., A. Kumar, Rakshitha K., P. Ranganath, S. K. Selvaraja. European Conference on Integrated Optics, Valencia (2018).
Ultra-high efficiency Non-uniform Dual-Band Grating Coupler in SiN Platform

Nambiar S., Hemalatha M., P. Ranganath, S. K. Selvaraja. European Conference on Integrated Optics, Valencia (2018).
Broadband transverse magnetic pass polarizer with low insertion loss based on silicon nitride waveguide

T.K. Sharma, P. Ranganath, S. Nambiar, S.K. Selvaraja. Optics Engineering, 57(3) 037104 (2018).
Waves generated in the plasma plume of helicon magnetic nozzle

N. Singh, S. Rao, and P. Ranganath. Physics of Plasmas, 20, 032111 (2013).
Implementation of Spectral Estimation Techniques for Range Doppler Mapping

P. Ranganath. Masters Thesis, Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama, Huntsville (2012).