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title: "Akash Prabakar - Head - Software Engineering in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Akash Prabakar, Building MRI Scanners at Voxelgrids | Head - Software Engineering at Voxelgrids | PhD Student at Spectrum Lab - IISc based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini. Explore public work links including github."
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# Akash Prabakar on Tal

## Headline

Building MRI Scanners at Voxelgrids \| Head \- Software Engineering at Voxelgrids \| PhD Student at Spectrum Lab \- IISc

## About

I currently work as the Head \- Software Engineering at Voxelgrids Innovations where I focus on Image Reconstruction and Pulse Sequences in MRI scanners\. I'm a PhD student at Spectrum Lab, Indian Institute of Science focusing on Computational Imaging and Inverse Problems, particularly MRI\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

notion

openai

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Head \- Software Engineering at Voxelgrids Innovations Pvt Ltd, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Signal Processing Engineer at Voxelgrids Innovations Pvt Ltd, Jul 2024 \- Apr 2025 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Systems Engineer \- Signal processing applications at Voxelgrids Innovations Pvt Ltd, Aug 2021 \- Jul 2024 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summer Research Fellow at Indian Academy of Sciences, May 2020 \- Aug 2020 · 4 mos, Designed a Generalized Eigen Vector beamforming system using Neural Network based Time Frequency Masking for speech enhancement in hearing aids\.

Intern at BioMedix Optotechnik & Devices Pvt Ltd, Jul 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, Design of a Control Unit for the realization of various scan patterns controlling a laser scanning system for retinal imaging using VHDL

## Education

Doctor of Philosophy \- PhD, Computational Imaging, Indian Institute of Science \(IISc\)

BE \- Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, RV College of Engineering

## Profile highlights

The best product I’ve worked on…: I've spent close to 6 years building the MRI scanner, starting from scratch till clinical deployment\. It's the only product I worked on and I'm proud of that\.

What's hard for others but easy for me…: A messy problem statement\. Building MRI scanners taught me everything from hardware \-> physics \-> Math \-> engineering \-> sales \-> investment\.

The hardest problem I've personally solved\.\.\.: Diffusion Imaging with my MRI scanner where I had to deal with Magnets, Eddy currents, Electromagnetics, MR physics, Signal Processing, Reconstruction, Clinical

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/akashprabakar

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