Engineer Medical Device

RASHMI REDDY PABHATHI REDDY

*** * *** ******, #***, Arlington, Texas-76010. Phone # 757-***-****

Email: ***********.*************@*****.***, Alt email: *.***********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To take up a job doing challenging tasks in an organization, where my technical and professional skills can be applied.

EDUCATION

MS in Biomedical Engineering (2011-2013)

University of Texas at Arlington and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, US GPA- 3.6/4

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (2007-2011)

CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India GPA- 3.8/4

COURSEWORK

Laboratory Principles Digital Signal Processing Tissue Optics

Functional Magnetic Resonance imaging Ultrasound Imaging Brain and Behavior

Biomedical and Molecular Imaging Fluorescence Microscopy Human Physiology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming languages: C, MATLAB, VHDL, Assembly level programming

• Hardware experimental units: Varian MRI, Cephalogics FNIRS, Xenogen Bioluminescence and Ultrasound

imaging.

• Design/ Simulation tools: Solidworks, ImageJ, Homer, AFNI, Biopac, Labview, Fuzzy toolbars-Matlab.

• Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, LINUX. Mac.

• Packages/Multimedia tools: MS Office, MiniTab, Photoshop 7.0.

• Specialties: Preclinical studies, Data acquisition, Data analysis, Image/Signal processing, Statistical analysis,

Validation, Mechanical testing, Technical writing, Management skills, Technical support, FDA regulations.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Jan 2012-May 2013)

• Thesis title: Noninvasive Assessment of Tumor Hypoxia Using Oxygen Sensitive MRI in Prostate Tumor

Models.

• Research is primarily focused on study of tumor hypoxia in animal tumor models using Magnetic Resonance

Imaging (4.7 T Varian MRI system). Duties include experimental planning, coordinating, troubleshooting,

training, data acquisition, processing, analysis and documentation.

• Gained strong command on MRI concepts, operation of Varian MRI system, MATLAB and ImageJ for

data processing and analysis, BLI, Ultrasound imaging.

Medical Device Engineer Intern at Centronix ( Jan 2011-Aug 2011)

• Performed duties that include designing, assembling, installation, inspection, validation, evaluation and

calibration of various hardware projects on medical device technology. Create system block diagrams,

equipment lists based on requirements, write system description and provide technical support.

• Gained knowledge on IVDs, Solid works, Lab view software, microcontrollers, chip programming, testing,

and system evaluation.

ENGINEERING PROJECTS

Stimulated Sleep Apnea study using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Fall 2011)

• This project was mainly focused on Sleep apnea study on several subjects using FNIRS and analysis of

respective data.

• Study conducted using Cephalogics high-density NIRS system using NIRS probes.

• Analysis of data is done using HOMER software.

Digital Signal Processing of Electrocardiogram signal (Fall 2011)

• This project was mainly focused on Signal processing, filtering and analysis of Electrocardiogram signal.

• Analysis of human ECG is done on MATLAB for various subjects.

Non-invasive beat to beat Blood Pressure measurement (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)

• This project was mainly focused on designing a working model for Blood Pressure measurement for every

heart beat using a non-invasive method.

• The relation of Pulse Wave Transit Time (PWTT) with Systolic Blood Pressure is used as the main element in

designing the working model.

• Hardware used is ECG electrodes, Pulse Plethysmo Graph (PPG) probe, Oscilloscope, Microcontroller (R8C

group) with LCD interface to display the results.

• Received first prize and cash reward as best project at University level..

HYGEIA- Domestic online monitor of Water Pollution for Household Applications (Spring 2010)

• This project was mainly focused on designing a working model of water pollution detector for household

applications based on conductivity principle of water.

• Hardware used is Conductivity probe, temperature sensor (LM35), Microcontroller (PIC), LCD to display the

conductivity level and purity of water.

Miscellaneous projects

• Designed a prototype for “An approach of DSM Techniques for Domestic Load Management using Fuzzy

Logic” paper for presentation at FUZZ-IEEE’09 Conference held at South Korea. Received first prize and

cash reward in Center for Innovative Ideas competition held at ACE college of Engineering, India. (Fall

2009).

• Designed a C program for “Mesh and Node Analysis” as a mini project to present at Ciencia, a technical

festival and received third prize in Coding Competition at CVR College of Engineering, India. (Spring

2008).

PUBLICATIONS

• Published an abstract titled “Examining tumor hypoxia using MRI (BOLD/TOLD) in correlation with

[18F]FMISO PET” at SNMMI 2013 Annual Meeting at Vancouver, Canada, 2013.

• Published two technical papers titled “Hygeia- Domestic Online Monitor of Water Pollution”,

“Mathematical Analysis for Constant Household Monitor of Water Pollution” at IEEE International

Conference on Electro/Information Technology held at Illinois State University, Illinois in 2010 and

WSEAS International Conference (WWAI’10) held at Tunisia, 2010.

• Published a technical paper named “Electricity Generation- Industrial Waste Management” at IEEE

International Conference on Electro/Information Technology held at Illinois State University, Illinois in

2010 and Kuwait Waste Management Conference and Exhibition held at Kuwait in 2010.

• Presented a paper titled “An approach of DSM Techniques for Domestic Load Management using Fuzzy

Logic” at an International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE at Jeju Island, South Korea in 2009.

• Presented a technical paper on Energy conservation techniques named “Demand Limiters for Domestic

Consumers for Peak Load Management” at ICEESPEEE, IEEE sponsored International conference held at

SRM University, Chennai, India in 2009.

• Presented a technical paper on Energy conservation techniques for a basic household titled “Demand limiter

for domestic loads during peak hours” at a NCACI conference held at Silicon University, Bhubaneswar,

India in 2009.

• Presented a technical paper titled “DSM techniques and Fuzzy logic application to Air conditioner - a case

study” at WSEAS International conference, Spain in 2008.

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Professional membership: Active student member of

ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine),

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and electronics engineers)

BMES (Bio Medical Engineer Society).

• Active student member of Indian Student Association (ISA).

• Certified in Youth Empowerment and Skills Workshop (YES! +) held by Art of Living organization.

• A member of the organizing committee of national level technical symposium, Ciencia organized at CVR

College of Engineering, India.

• Active member of Blue Cross, Hyderabad, India.

References and certificates: Available on request.

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