Dilip Kumar Venkatesh acu1u2@r.postjobfree.com

**** ******** ******, ***-**, Philadelphia, PA 19104 267-***-**** OBJECTIVE:

Seeking full time opportunities as RF Engineer.

EDUCATION

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (Cumulative GPA – 3.57/4) September 2014 - March 2016

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Relevant courses: Digital and Analog Communication Theory, RFIC Design, Antennas and Radiating Systems, Electromagnetic Wave Analysis I & II, Microwave Passive & Active subsystems, Wireless Systems, Optical Fiber Communication.

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India (Cumulative GPA – 3.7/4) September 2008 - June 2012 Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunication Engineering. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software tools:

HFSS, Momentum, ADS, COMSOL, Cadence-Virtuoso, Spectre, Lab-view. Hardware skills:

Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, EM Scanner, Anechoic Chamber, Oscilloscope, R.F Power Meter and Microcontrollers - ATMEGA16, 8051.

Technology Skills:

LTE, CDMA, 802.16 WIMAX, Wi-Fi, WLAN, WAN, Wi-Di, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC and RFID. Programing languages:

MATLAB, C, C++.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Associate October 2015 – Present

Microwave and photonics lab, Drexel University, PA RF/Microwave designing and testing with extensive use of COMSOL, HFSS, ADS, Network and Spectrum analysers.

Developing a novel radial stub hair pin band pass filter with composite ferroelectric thin films as dielectric using 3D/2D Momentum and HFSS simulations.

Developed annular ring stack antenna with ferroelectric thin films as the substrate for enhanced gain using HFSS.

Designed and simulated the performance of a magnetically tuned annular ring antenna and 3rd order band pass annular ring filter with ferromagnetic nanoparticles and ferroelectric thin films as the substrate using COMSOL and HFSS for a receiver subsystems.

Designed and tested a class B power amplifier using a BJT HBPF-0420 package using ADS for a frequency range of 500 MHz to 3 GHZ and optimized the same BJT for its use as a Low Noise Amplifier at frequency of 1.1 GHz.

Tested Mixer from using Spectrum analyser and evaluated intermodulation & harmonic distortion.

Performed testing of RFIC designs like baluns with Air coplanar probes using probe station. Design Engineer November 2012 – August 2014

Digit Labz, Bangalore, India

Worked as a lead designer for the development of home security system. Was effectively able to reduce the market price of the product by a factor of 50%.

Implemented the home security device and vehicle tracking system using C with Atmega-32 as a test bench.

Involved in the continuous development and testing of firmware of the products.

Interfaced the GSM 300 and other sensors to ATmega-16 Microcontroller.

Developed interfacing boards like Zigbee, RFID and RF transceivers-CC2500 to ATmega-32 Microcontroller.

Designed the microcontroller development boards for 20 student robotic workshops. Internship

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bangalore, India February 2012 – May 2012 Project Name: Digital Modulation Using Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) Technique. Designed a miniature version of a digital transmitter implemented in LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) in Indian Airforce. Performed necessary coding on win AVR platform using Atmega-16 microcontroller for the implementation of system and a random generator was used to spread the data after performing QPSK modulation using C language. TECHNICAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Paper in press “Gain Enhanced Tunable Stacked Antenna Using Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles and Ferroelectric Thin Films” to IEEE APS, 2016, Puerto Rico and IEEE EuMW, 2016, London conferences.

Submitted papers on “Tunable Microwave Filter Using Ferromagnetic nanoparticles and Ferroelectric Thin Films”, to IEEE EuMW, 2016, London and IEEE IMS, 2016 CA conferences.

Exhibited a poster on “Magnetically tuned microwave filter using FeCo nanoparticles” at IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2015, NJIT, NJ.

Presented a poster on “Tunable Microwave Filter Using Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles and Ferroelectrics Thin Films”, at Drexel IEEE symposium, 2016, Drexel University, PA. ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Design and Analysis of R.F integrated circuits September 2014 – March 2015 Drexel University, PA

Designed a wide band impedance matching circuits using micro strip lines and lumped elements.

Modelled low pass, high pass, band pass and band stop filters using lumped components as well as distributed elements and analysed the output using Automatic Network Analyser.

Designed and analysed performance of a R.F oscillator using ADS and network analyser.

Tested the performance of LNA, power combiners.

Fabricated and characterized phase shifters along with RF switches using ADS.

Characterized mixer using a spectrum analyser and designed Active Mixer using ADS.

Designed, fabricated and characterised dual directional couplers using ANA. Simulation of a mobile wireless network using MATLAB January 2015 – March 2015 Drexel University, PA

Implemented a real time wireless mobile network using MATLAB and performed Link budgeting.

Analysed effects of fading and shadowing on the received signal, in terms of RX power and Tx power and also its effects during handoff in a communication channel.

Identified co-channel cells and calculated the co-channel interference.

Simulated results for communication between a transmitter and receiver under log normal and Rayleigh fading.

Implemented a SMART Antenna system using Bartlett and MUSIC Algorithm for Beam forming.

Implemented a 4*4 MIMO Smart Antenna communication system in MATLAB. Hardware design of FFT for OFDM system using Cadence September 2015 – December 2015 Drexel University, PA

Implemented a 16 point DIT Radix-2 FFT processor using CMOS 180nm technology.

Evaluated the speed of the FFT processor and improved the same by designing a pipelined architecture.

Designed a floating point arithmetic complex multiplier circuit and layout.

Designed and simulated the performance of basic logic gates, latches and flip-flops. VOLUNTEER

Graduate student Association – Sports Chair and Library Archivist (2015 – 2016)

Drexel IEEE chapter – Member (2008 – present )

AWARDS

Dean’s fellowship award at Drexel University for excellent academic record.

Teaching Assistantship from the Physics Department at Drexel University.

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