Electrical System

Saiyi Wang

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EDUCATION

Northern Arizona University (NAU), Department of Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science, Flagstaff, Arizona

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, August 2010, GPA: 3.82

Main Coursework: Error Correction Codes, Statistical Methods, Numerical

Analysis, Wireless communication and networking, Communication Systems, and

Embedded Control

Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, B.S. in Electrical

Engineering, July 2007

WorkING experience

Wireless Network Research Lab of NAU, Flagstaff, Arizona, Research Fellow

Aug 2008-Aug 2010

Dynamic Reporting for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Team Leader

Aug 2008-Aug 2010

Successfully established a reporting strategy (based on data modeling) which

increased energy efficiency of WSNs

Applied this reporting strategy algorithms (in C/C++) on microprocessor based

embedded system

Implemented multi-scale energy measurement scheme and measured micro-controller

computational energy cost

Developed a more precise, practical energy consumption model and estimated

energy-cost/lifecycle of WSNs

Conducted MATLAB simulation to evaluate performance this reporting strategy

Achieved a saving of up to 70% energy cost of WSNs using this reporting strategy

NAU Centennial Forest WSNs Deployment, Team Member

Dec 2008-Aug 2010

Installed, managed, and tested lab designed WSNs in ponderosa pine forest

Diagnosed and troubleshot Network failure and sensor node malfunction

Discovered and repaired hub time synchronization problem

Characterization of Single-chip RF Radios for WSNs Applications, Team Member

Sep 2008-Apr 2009

Tested characterizations of two wireless transceivers (TI ADF7020, CC1100)

Formulated energy consumption procedure in both transmission and reception

Processed, interpreted, and analyzed experiment data

Successfully assisted advisor to publish a paper at 10th Annual IEEE WAMICON

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Battery Voltage Drainage Model Parameter Inference, NAU

Feb 2010- May 2010

Established state-space dynamic models of sensor node battery voltage drainage

Implemented Gibbs Sampler and Bayesian inference algorithms to infer models'

parameters

MIMO and Space Time Coding, NAU

Oct 2009-Dec 2009

Simulated MIMO transmitters, wireless channels, and receivers using MATLAB

Implemented and evaluated performance of space time encoding and decoding

algorithm of MIMO system

Channel Coding and Decoding, NAU

Sep 2009-Nov 2009

Conducted encoding, syndrome, maximum-likelihood, and viterbi decoding

simulation on MATLAB

Embedded System ( TI EZ430-RF2500) Control, NAU

Jan 2009-May 2009

Designed and implemented software (in C/C++) of microprocessor embedded system

Built wireless communication between two EZ430-RF2500 and accomplished

communication quality test

Biologically-Inspired Design, NAU

Jan 2009-May 2009

Developed a new solar panel which increased the sunlight reception efficiency

and reduced pay back time

Implemented economy and technical analysis (long term and short term) on this

solar panel

Traffic Light Control System Design, BIT

May 2006-July 2006

Designed and implemented digital circuit for intersection traffic light

control system

Laser Communication Analog Circuit Design, BIT

Aug 2006-Sep 2006

Designed and tested laser transmitter and receiver

A New Multi-carrier Transmission System and Theory of Future Plan, Tsinghua

Univ. Beijing Sep 2005-Feb 2006

Successfully implemented an efficient carrier frequency offset estimation

algorithm of OFDM (based on IEEE802.11a standard) on MATLAB

Designed special procedures which improved the simulation speed and efficiency

Published a paper on the Third International Symposium on Neural Networks

Conference as a coauthor

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Specialties: Familiar with wireless

communication system, channel coding, algorithm design, Gibbs sampler,

Bayesian inference, data analysis and modeling, embedded system programming

and measurement, MATLAB simulation, statistical signal processing

Programming Languages: C, C++, MATLAB Scripts, R (SAS)

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/ Macintosh/Linux

OTHER SKILLS

Latex, LabView, MS Office: Access, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio

HONOR

Two Years' Science Foundation Arizona Graduate Research Fellowship

2008-2010

The Winner of Three Years' College Student Scholarship, Beijing Institute of

Technology 2003-2006

PUBLICATION

Feng Zhu, Yafeng Hu, Saiyi Wang, Peng Wei. "The BP Network for Carrier

Frequency Offset Estimation in OFDM-Based WLANs," the Third

International Symposium on Neural Networks, Chengdu, China, 2006, LNCS

3973, pp.144-149.

PRESENTATIONS

Graduate Research Fellows Grand Challenge Innovation Summit, Oracle,

Arizona, 2009, poster presentation

Graduate Research Fellows Grand Challenge Conference, Phoenix, Arizona,

2010, poster presentation

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