Madhav RaoApril **, ****

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, May 2012,

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al.

Concentration: Microelectronics GPA: 4.00/4.00

Master of Science in Microelectronics, December 2007,

The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, ARK. GPA: 3.87/4.00

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunications,

June 2004, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.

GPA: 3.90/4.00

Dissertation Advisor: Professor S. L. Burkett and Professor J. C. Lusth

Dissertation Title: Self assembled structures for 3D integration

Graduate Assistant, January 2008 - Present,

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al

Graduate Assistant, August 2006 - December 2007

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

Software Embedded Engineer, July 2004 - June 2006

Larsen And Toubro, Mysore, India

Worked with Professor S. L. Burkett in forming self assembled

anchored micronscale 3D structures, which is used to stack layers of

hybrid technologies. Formation of completely filled soldered

and partially filled soldered hollow 3D structures were analyzed and studied.

Buried daisy chain conducting channel were introduced as simulated through

silicon vias (TSVs) to complete the electrical testing of 3D structures

and prove the integrated processing of 3D structures on TSVs.

Worked with Professor S. L. Burkett in fabricating

TSVs via deep reactive ion etch (Bosch process) filled

with copper by reverse electroplating method.

Carbon nanotube (CNT) bundles filled in cryogenic etched through

silicon vias (TSVs) for 3D integration were also fabricated

in Argonne National laboratory, Illinois, USA.

Worked with Professor J. C. Lusth in forming a prototype

for driving a logical input state in a edge driven nanomagnetic cellular

architecture. Nanomagnetic nickel dots of around 200 to 500 nm

were patterned close to aluminum micron scale wire using electron beam and photolithography

methods. Magnetic polarity testing on nickel dots were completed using Magnetic

Force Microscope (MFM), after passing electric current

along the aluminum wire to investigate on the logical input (dot) state

in the nanomagnetic array. Switching of an input dot polarity was obtained

on reversing the electric current direction along the micronscale wire.

Worked with Professor J. C. Lusth to develop a native command

line interface, open source arplay (Alsa based readily readable audio

player). Other infile placement audio directive functions were developed

to serve in post-processing the audio file. Post processing directives such as

amplify, crossover, add-drums, silence, compress and karaoke

were included in the library. A directive-aware RRA player will process

the specific directive as the audio track is played while a non-aware

player simply ignores the embedded comments.

In the spring of 2011, April 3-9 and in the

summer of 2011, July 14-31,

I visited Argonne National laboratory, Illinois, for 24 days

to fabricate deep silicon vias using cryogenic inductively coupled

plasma (ICP) silicon etching tool. Vertically aligned

carbon nanotubes were deposited inside the vias using thermal chemical

vapor deposition tool in Argonne. The visit was supported by Army Research Laboratory(contract no. W911NF-10-2-0093).

In the summer 2010, May 25-28, I along

with 6 other students from the University of Alabama,

were invited to NASA, Kennedy space center, Florida,

to participate in lunar mining competition,

organized and sponsored by NASA.

A telerobotic system, consisted of

two independent robots, were developed in the University of Alabama,

in Fall-2009 and Spring-2010 semesters.

The robot system

with complete network functionality using a single board

linux controller interfacing multiple actuators, sensors and

web camera was developed and tested in the school.

My contribution included in developing an application programming

interface for precise movement of the motors, actuators,

and web-cameras. A background process was developed

to maintain the webserver, which serves the user requests.

The user interface was developed using Labview software.

The two robot system especially software system using

unique Labview software, a graphical programming tool,

was well appreciated by NASA

and other participants.

MEMS/NEMS divisional best paper award in

58th American Vacuum Society International Conference,

November, 2011.

(Only one paper is awarded in MEMS division in each academic year).

6th place at the inaugural Lunabotics competition

held in NASA, Kennedy space center, Florida, on May 25-28, 2010.

Tri-annual Research Efficiency Award in Microelectronics

and Photonics department in University of Arkansas, June, 2007

to promote research productivity.

(Only three are awarded each academic year).

Fastest Master of science graduate student to date

in Microelectronics and Photonics department in

University of Arkansas, Dec, 2007.

(Microelectronics and photonics program started in 1999 at the

University of Arkansas. I was the first

to complete M.S degree in 3

full semesters with thesis plan.)

13th rank in Bachelor of Engineering final year in Mumbai University,

July, 2004.

J.R.D scholarship in Undergraduate for good

academic performance during first, second and third year of

engineering. (Only five were awarded each academic year in the

college).

Instructor for Programming-1 (CS150), Fall-2010 and Fall-2009.

Initiated activity based teaching program. Simple real life problems were

included in programming projects. Step wise refinement method

was added in solving the projects. Grading scripts were developed

to automate the grading process.

Out of class help sessions were provided in completing projects and assignments.

Excellent teaching evaluation

from International Academic Program was obtained.

Grader and helper for Programming-1 (CS150), Spring-2009.

Laboratory instructor for Electronics-1 (ECE331), Spring-2008.

Developed prelaboratory exercise for students to solve,

monitored working conditions of laboratory items required for students,

prior to the laboratory, updated the laboratory manual accordingly,

demonstrated basic principles before starting the laboratory,

during the course of experiments, and grading of the students

experimental reports. Excellent feedback was received from students

and course professor, Dr. Kim Margaret.

Currently mentoring graduate students in IC fabrication

course (ECE538) project, Fall-2011.

Students are building their own designed

self assembled 3D structures

on silicon substrate by following

a given process traveller.

Initiation of the project and distribution of workload to group

members were planned by me to engage all members in the project.

Students designed the 2D patterns in AutoCad

and will be following the planned

four sub processes: photolithography, dielectric deposition,

metal deposition and etching. Other in between and remaining processes

will be completed by myself. Students are encouraged to choose the

area of work according to their expertise or interests.

Mentored senior undergraduate students in Software design and development

course (CS415) project, Fall-2008.

Supervised 6 students to develop a dual sensor based

moving autonomous robot. Students extended

optical vision module to the existing speech

controlled and sound recognized

autonomous robot developed by myself.

Edge detection driven image processing

algorithm in a parallel

processing architecture were included to assist

an line following cloudbook built robot using

an in-built web-camera (optical sensor).

Weekly meetings and timely

inputs were provided to students to complete

the necessary milestones for the project in the course.

Helped students in testing and troubleshooting the developed software.

Mentored a sophomore undergraduate student in Spring-2009

to investigate electromagnetic

parameters of 3D structures using HFSS software. The student

presented a poster based on the findings, in undergraduate

research conference held in the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

on April, 2009.

Software Embedded Engineer, July 2004 - June 2006

Larsen And Toubro, Mysore, India

Completed Dataconcentrator, a product with full

network capability based on uClinux platform,

a free open source operating system, which is used to

remotely control petrol pumps. Contributed in developing

serial based modbus communication protocol between the

dataconcentrator and petrol pumps.

Enhanced source code in 8272-ADS, board support package, to

integrate with upgraded kernel 2.6.12.

Other Professional Experience & SkillsContributed in writing, successful proposal to secure

funding from NASA ($5000) and Alabama space grant consortium ($5000)

to build the robot for the year 2009-10. Based on the proposal,

only 25 teams from different schools in USA were funded

by NASA.

Helped Professor G. Salamo in organizing conference

14th Semiconducting and insulating materials conference in

June, 2007, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.

Helped Associate Professor J. C. Lusth in organizing

an awareness activity on computer

engineering in Francias Marian High school in April, 2009.

Helped Associate Professor S. Kotru in organizing

workshop in electrical engineering in Rocky Quarry High School,

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, for 6th grade students in December, 2009

and in November, 2008.

Conducted a robotics awareness program

in YMCA high school, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA on October, 2009.

Self assembled 3D structures

Integrated circuit processing

3D VLSI

Magnetic logic devices (spintronics)

Computer assisted music

Robotics

Wireless sensor network

Operating systems, Python Programming, Science of Programming,

IC Fabrication Technology, Electromagnetic Wave Theory,

Advanced IC Processing, Spintronics, Sway programming,

NanoStructures, Electronic Packaging, Sustainability issues of a computer,

Modern Physics, IC Design, Operations Management,

Commercialization of Research, Introduction to Entrepreneurships,

Ansys Modelling, Ethics, Graph theory and its applications and

Electronic Materials and Devices, Statistics, Introduction

to Autonomous Robots

Clean-Room Certified Professional (Clean 10,000, 1000, 100),

Proficient in deposition tools: CVD, PECVD, Reactive-Ion Etcher, BOSCH process, cryogenic etching, ALD, Multi-chamber Sputterer, E beam Evaporator,

Experienced in Photolithography and E beam lithography,

Expertise in metrology tools such as AFM, XPS and SEM

Proficient in Linux/Unix and Windows enviroment,

Good in C, Sway[Object Oriented], Python programming,

Developed sensor softwares compatible to Atmel AVR32UC3B128 controller.

Completed embedded programming on sensor-device sides and Application

Programming on PC-side.

Efficient in shell scripting, socket programming, serial communication,

modbus protocol, audio programming, image programming,

cluster computing, building thin client architecture, MPI protocol,

Playerstage robot simulation, Phidgets controller programming,

Single board computer programming, familiar with API, system calls,

sempahores and other system level programming, trouble shooting kernel

level skills.

AVR32Studio,

HFSS, OOMMF,

Minitab, Mathematica, Maple, Matlab and multi-sim [pspice].

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