Sowmya Ragavendiran

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Jersey City, NJ 07310

acror2@r.postjobfree.com

848-***-****

EDUCATION:

• M.S. Electrical & Comp. Eng., Rutgers University. NJ. GPA: 3.65 / 4. August 2012 – October 2014

Graduate Coursework - Transistor Circuit Design, RF Integrated Circuit Design, Microelectronic Processing, Computer Aided Digital – VLSI Design, Data Structures and Algorithms.

• B.E. Electronics&Instrumentation Eng., Anna University, India. GPA: 7.9/ 10. June 2007– May 2011

EMPLOYMENT:

Research Assistant Rutgers University January 2015 - Present

Advisor – Prof. Yicheng Lu

1. Research Program in ZnO-Based Surface Acoustic Wave device at the Rutgers ECE Department.

2. Investigated the growth of new ZnO/GaN heterostructure-based tunable acousto-electronic devices.

3. The ZnO/GaN based tunable sensors can lengthen the SAW sensor lifetime by resetting the acoustic velocity by adjusting the operation of frequency of the device.

4. It demonstrated a high tunability of 1% operating at a frequency of 1.2GHz with low bias voltage.

5. Developed prototype device by fabricating this sensor will serve as the basic block for applications as biosensors, multi-channel filters.

Teaching Assistant Rutgers University January 2013 – May 2013

1. Course TA for the Undergraduate level course Professionalism and Ethics – Dr. Sigrid McAfee.

2. Conducted lab sessions and review sessions. Graded assignments, quizzes and semester projects exams.

Programmer Analyst Cognizant Technology Solutions May 2011 – July 2012

1. It is a next generation timekeeping system that lets employee manage their timecard.

2. Developed a tool using C++ and SQL to generate Pay roll. Used by 1500 employees by client.

3. Provide access to employees’ to login into the system and to provide basic support to the system.

PROJECTS:

“RF Integrated Circuit Design”

1. Built an Integrated Circuit RF Receiver for Medical Device Radio Communications using the low IF-Receiver architecture using the IBM7RF 0.18μm technology.

2. Low power of 1.57mW with a gain of 41.3 dB was achieved.

3. Designed the LNA of the receiver producing a gain of 19 dB and NF of 2.5 dB consuming 594μW of power.

4. Integrated LNA, VCO and the Mixer using Cadence.

“Transistor Circuit Design”

1. Designed single-stage and multi-stage BJT and MOSFET amplifiers using the Multisim simulator.

2. Extensively analyzed the frequency response of feedback amplifiers.

“Fabrication of MOS Capacitor”

1. Fabricated a MOS capacitor in the clean room of MERL (Microelectronics Research Laboratory - Rutgers) using the processing steps for capacitor manufacturing.

2. Simulated the capacitor using TSUPREM4.

“802.11a Trans-receiver System”

1. Implemented the complete transmitter receiver system using the 180nm technology at 100W with a supply of 1.8 V. It was designed using Cadence and Synopsys.

2. The RTL implementation was synthesized using Verilog for design and verification.

3. Designed the 32- bits MIPS processor of the system. It is a register-based architecture where the CPU uses registers to perform operations.

“Data Compression Algorithm”

1. Performed detailed analysis of the Huffman Coding, Arithmetic Coding and LZW algorithms for data compression using C++.

2. Comparative analysis of algorithms used for data compression in data centers.

ELECTRONIC TOOLS:

VNA, Spectrum analyzer, Parameter Analyzer, Oscilloscope, Power meter, DMM, Signal Generator.

LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES:

CAD tools – Cadence, Synopsys Verilog Multisim TSuprem4 C++ SQL LabView Matlab MS Office.

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