Dr.
Thomas
Poonnen

Thomas Poonnen was born in the late seventies in Kerala, India. He belongs to the Palampadom family, an ancient Christian family from India. He is the only child of Mrs. & Mr. Thomas Palampadom. He is married to Breeta Erali Elbi, and they have a daughter, Nikita. He resides with his family at the CasaBreeta [+] in Greater Los Angeles, California, USA.

He has two decades of progressive experience in integrated circuit (IC) design, with expertise in digital image sensor design (ultraviolet / visible / infrared). He has been the technical lead for several CMOS image sensor (CIS) and readout integrated circuit (ROIC) products from conception to productization. He has served as the Principal Investigator / Key Person on multiple research grants (DoD, NASA). He is presently the Director of Engineering at Senseeker Engineering that specializes in the design of state-of-the-art digital ROICs for advanced infrared imaging applications.

He has a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Kerala, India.

He has several patents and technical publications to his credit. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the SPIE, the ASME and the PMI.

Dissertation / Thesis

★ T. Poonnen, “Efficient VLSI Divide and Conquer Array Architectures for Multiplication,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, September 1, 2007.

★ T. Poonnen, "An Area-Efficient VLSI Implementation for Programmable FIR Filters based on a Parameterized Divide and Conquer Approach," Master of Science Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, September 1, 2003.

Journals / Conferences

★ T. Poonnen, W. Korth, C. Peterson, and K. Veeder, "Proximal Interpolation, Tone Mapping and Pseudo-Coloring for Intra-Frame High Dynamic Range Infrared Imaging," Proceedings of SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference, May 27, 2022. [+]

★ T. Poonnen, S. McCotter, K. Esparza, and K. Veeder, "Digital Readout Integrated Circuit for High Dynamic Range Infrared Imaging," Proceedings of SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference, April 12, 2021. [+]

★ T. Poonnen, and A. T. Fam, "An Area-Efficient VLSI Implementation for Programmable FIR Filters based on a Parameterized Divide and Conquer Approach," Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture 54 (12), December 1, 2008. [+]

★ T. Poonnen, L. Liu, K. V. Karia, M. E. Joyner and J. J. Zarnowski, "A CMOS Video Sensor for High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging," Proceedings of IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC), October 29, 2008. [+]

★ T. Poonnen, and A. T. Fam, "A Novel VLSI Divide and Conquer Array Architecture for Vector-Scalar Multiplication," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Technology (ICICDT), June 1, 2007. [+]

★ T. Poonnen, and A. T. Fam, "A Novel VLSI Divide and Conquer Implementation of the Iterative Array Multiplier," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Technology – New Generations (ITNG), April 4, 2007. [+]

★ T. Poonnen, and A. T. Fam, "An Area-Efficient VLSI Implementation for Programmable FIR Filters based on a Parameterized Divide and Conquer Approach," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), December 11, 2003. [+]

(+ other technical publications)