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He was a Post-Doctoral research fellow at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan during 1992-1996. His area of research interest is Optical Communications, in particular, Photonic Integrated Circuits. He published about 150 papers and guided 28 Ph D students. He is a member of the National Board of Accreditation, NBA. He was the chairman GATE (IISc zone) during 2010-13. He is an active volunteer of IEEE Bangalore Section and served on students activities, technical activities, professional activities and chapter coordination. He was the Chair for IEEE Photonics Society and IEEE Communication society chapters of IEEE Bangalore Section. He was involved in IEEE comSoc chapters of India. He initiated formation of India council chapter of IEEE Photoncis society, now called the Prakash Bharati, the network of Photonics professionals of India. He is involved in formation of about 30 student Branches and 10 society chapters in Bangalore Section. He gave over 100 technical talks at various colleges.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, he held senior leadership positions at General Electric, Tata Consultancy Services, and Philips Research. He setup and led global teams for Research and Innovation at these companies.

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He has also successfully completed his post-doctoral research from University of Agder, Norway in 2023. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Tirupati. His research interests include learning representations of video activities and drone data, autonomous vehicles, Aerial Imagery Analysis.

His research interests encompass wireless communication, VLSI, and signal processing. Ravi has made significant contributions to academia, with publications in national and international journals and conferences. Additionally, he has successfully guided more than 25 projects, and a patent.
His impactful projects include winning the KSCST Best Project of the Year 2016-17 for "Fabrication of graphene with actuate carbon made from cow dung as an electrode material for electrochemical sensor - A Biomedical Applications." He has also played a crucial role in developing a Solar-Based Temperature Controlled Fruit Drying System and Small Scale Automatic Jaggery Production(AJP) System development in collaboration with the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.
In his academic and professional journey, he has conducted over 30 webinars and technical talks and actively engaged in 50+ student activities. Notably, he plays a pivotal role as the co-chair 2024 Innovation Challenge track of the IEEE YESIST 12 (Youth Endeavours For Social Innovation Using Sustainable Technology) Innovation Challenge track, an international student project competition with participation from over 25 countries. His leadership in this capacity resulted in winning the award for the best vibrant pilot in 2022. Moreover, Ravi has been actively involved in initiatives supporting those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic as the Youth Red Cross coordinator.
Recognized for his academic and leadership achievements, Ravi received a Faculty Full Fellowship for the VLSID Embedded and VLSI Design conference in 2014 and 2020.
Demonstrating commitment to the community, he holds leadership roles in the IEEE North Karnataka Subsection, including Chair 2024, Chair Elect 2023,3, and Secretary 2022, alongside serving as a student branch counselor. His involvement extends to various capacities, such as serving as the Secretary of the IEEE SIGHT Bangalore section and receiving accolades such as the Best Counselor Award 2020 and best small student branch 2015 and 2020 from the Bangalore section and the Best Volunteer Award 2021 for IEEE NKSS . Additionally, he played a core role as a committee member in various conferences of the Bangalore section, subsection, and student branch colleges. Present conference chair of IEEE NKSS international flagship conference NKCon2024 will be held at BEC Baglkote.
He is affiliated with esteemed organizations, holding SMIEEE, LMISTE, MIEI, and IAENG memberships. Beyond academia, his professional endeavors showcase a commitment to continuous learning, evident in his successful completion of the AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy FDP. His multifaceted contributions and leadership underscore his dedication to both academic excellence and community service.

He is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Teramo, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Access, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer) and Array (Elsevier), he served as a guest editor for Elsevier, Springer, and Inderscience journals, as program member of many conferences and as editorial board member of many journals. He is a Reviewer of reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Machine Learning. His current research interests include Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Information Theory, and Evolutionary Algorithms

. He is currently a lecturer in Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT in 2017. His research interests cover IC design, wireless detection, device characterization and artificial intelligence. Dr. Loo has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2017 and had held various positions within IEEE committee throughout his career. Dr. Loo has currently authored/co-authored more than 26 publications that cover journals, conference papers and book chapters.