Electrical Engineering, MS student specializing in Microsensors device design, fabrication and characterization. Seeking full time research/engineering position.

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13 month work experience as research assistant.

34 month work experience in Information technology.

EDUCATION

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

GPA: 3.415/4.0

Aug’14 – May’16

MS (Thesis) Electrical and Computer Engineering (Thesis Title: Lorentz force Magnetometer with PicoTesla sensitivity at room temperature)

Bharath University, Chennai, India

GPA: 8.97/10

Aug’07 – May’11

B.Tech. Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS

COMSOL Multiphysics Solidworks L-edit MS Office Pixelink

MEMS Device Design MEMS Device Characterization LabVIEW DAQ Interfacing Microwave Device Characterization Terahertz Device Characterization

Soldering Microorganism culturing DMM Oscilloscope LCR meter Laser Doppler vibrometer Terahertz waveguide CV analyzer Semiconductor parameter analyzer Amplifier Function generator DAQ Microwave generator Lock-in amplifier

C/C++ LabVIEW J2SE C# HTML Weblogic 8.1 SOAP UI Pro 4.5.2 Visual studio 2008/2010 SQL Server Management studio 2005 SVN BMC incident management console

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant

University of Utah, Utah, USA

Jan’15 - till date

Designed and characterized MEMS magnetometer. Increased the sensitivity from 1 V/T to 5 μV/nT bringing down the MDS to 27 pT (paper submitted/decision pending)

Designed, fabricated and characterized a piezoelectric energy harvester. (paper submitted/decision pending)

Tested the activation of Yeast cells in glucose and sucralose medium using Terahertz spectroscopy.

Designed and fabricated the electrodes to study the electrical parameters of Schefflera plant using capacitive, resistive and microwave reflectometry, LabVIEW, DAQ setup.

Characterized memristor with Ag2S active region (paper submitted/decision pending)

Tested a piezoelectric transformer using PZT discs.

Designed and characterized Vanadium (IV) Oxide actuator, magnetometer and solar cell. (paper submitted/decision pending)

Characterized a graphene based MOSFET.

Reviewer for IEEE Electron device letter.

Associate Software Engineer

CGI Inc., Chennai, India

Aug’13 – Jul’14

Monitored the JMS server, Windows server, and the JDBC connectivity for 6 environments of the application for UNFCCC (United Nations Framework convention for climate control).

Organized and coordinated the meetings for the deployment and testing of new changes for Australia, Switzerland and Japan.

IT Consultant

Logica Plc., Chennai, India

Oct’11 – Aug’13

Deployed, tested and monitored SLAMS (service level agreement managed services) application for British Telecom, Harlequins.

Handled 200-250 customer change requests on daily basis in addition to 3-5 service request and incidents, for British Telecom, Leeds.

Customer Support Professional

Sitel, Chennai, India

Apr’11 – Jul’11

Handled 10-15 calls in shifts to resolve hardware and software issues with Dell products.

COURSES

Solid state and Memory devices

Nano-electromechanical Systems

Electrical Interface to MEMS

Photo-materials and Solar cells (fabricated Solar cell in Lab)

Microsensors (fabricated pressure sensor in Lab)

LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE

Salt Lake City comic con fan experience – floaters team member.

Crimson night street team leader – Bi-semester event at the University of Utah.

Coastal cleanup drives and blood donation camps.

PUBLICATIONS

1.Kushagra Sinha, Olutosin C. Fawole and Massood Tabib-Azar, “Non-invasive monitoring of electrical parameters of Schefflera arboricola leaf,” IEEE Sensors conference 2015.

2.Kushagra Sinha and Massood Tabib-Azar, "Effect of Light and Water on Schefflera Plant Electrical Properties," Science Domain, 2015/JSRR/19174, Vol. 8, Issue 7, in press.

3.Kushagra Sinha, Rugved Likhite, and Massood Tabib-Azar, "High Sensitivity Silicon Nitride MEMS Magnetometer for Brain Imaging" USTAR Confluence, poster presentation, 2015.

4.Kushagra Sinha and Massood Tabib-Azar, “Remote power transfer using magneto-electric devices” PowerMEMS conference 2015.

5.Olutosin Fawole, Kushagra Sinha, and Massood Tabib-Azar, “Monitoring Yeast Activation with Sugar and Zero Calorie Sweetener using Terahertz Waves,” IEEE Sensors conference 2015.

6.Wenyuan Zhu, Kushagra Sinha, and Massood Tabib-Azar, "Temperature sensing using ultrasensitive MEMS device" USTAR Confluence, poster presentation, 2015.

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