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Sagar Shah

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CAREER SUMMARY:-

A PhD candidate with experience in fixed point digital signal processors

and assembly language, RTOS fundamentals and exposure to various digital

signal processing applications such as speech coding, audio signal

processing, texture classification, image processing and radar signal

processing, currently looking for a full-time position in the industry.

EDUCATION:-

PhD candidate in Electrical/Telecommunications Engineering,

Current

Drexel University, Philadelphia

Masters in Electrical/Telecommunications Engineering,

Graduated: June 2009 (GPA: 3.73)

Drexel University, Philadelphia

Bachelor in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering,

Graduated: July 2005 (GPA: 3.77)

Sardar Patel University, India

WORK EXPERIENCES:-

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, MA (September 2009 - December

2009)

Intern

Project: Low-Complexity Space-Time Adaptive Processing (LC-STAP) for

airborne radars

Developed a novel low-complexity space-time adaptive processing technique

and achieved computational cost savings of ~33% for performing near-optimal

clutter suppression in airborne radars

Wipro Technologies Ltd., India (August 2005 - August 2007)

Project Engineer DSP/Embedded Systems

Consultation activities in Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.

Successfully debugged multiple real-time RTOS and firmware code problems

using in-silicon debuggers (ISDB) and cache profiling tools such as ETM

Code porting and optimization activities performed on audio codecs helped

achieve reduction of ~40% in DSP code memory

Cache profiling activities helped understand the cache behaviour better and

resulted in ~8% savings in processor cycles (MIPS) usage

Developed and deployed software tools for cache profiling and successfully

setup an external hardware debugger for QDSP5 processor

Mentored 2 team members on cache structure and fetch latencies and usage of

external debuggers

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES:-

Drexel University (January 2009 - September 2009)

Research Assistant

Project: Radar Signal Processing using Compressed Sensing

Developed a new method for estimating target ranges with higher resolution

in step-frequency radars by applying the theory of compressive sampling,

and achieved bandwidth savings of ~40%

Drexel University (April 2009 - June 2009)

Teaching Assistant

Course: Transform Methods and filtering

Conducted and graded quizzes, performed recitations/discussions

Drexel University (January 2008 - September 2008)

Research Assistant

Project: Classification of in-vitro fertilized embryos using near-infrared

spectral data

(in collaboration with Molecular Biometrics LLC)

Implemented a system for modelling the spectral data using existing models

and distributions and achieved detection accuracies of ~70% for certain

test cases

PUBLICATIONS:-

"STEP-FREQUENCY RADAR WITH COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING" - Accepted at ICASSP

2010

"TWO-STEP LOW-COMPLEXITY SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING (STAP)"

- Submitted to

Globecom 2010

RELEVANT PROJECTS:-

Classified textured images using Compressive Sensing

Shape recognition and classification using B-spline interpolation and

moment invariants

Developed and implemented a 3.3 Kbps speech codec using sinusoidal

analysis/synthesis and vector quantization methods

Applied Huffman and Arithmetic coding techniques for images

Developed a speech recognition system using 8051 microcontroller

RELATED COURSEWORK:-

Digital Signal Processing DSP for Sound and

Hearing

Digital Image Processing Parallel Computer

Architecture

Digital Communications Wireless Systems

FUNDAMENTALS:- RTOS, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, MPEG

TECHNICAL SKILLS:-

Programming languages/software: MATLAB, C, Assembly

Digital Signal Processors: TMS320C3xx, ADSP-BF533, QDSP5000TM

Processors/ Microcontrollers: x86, 8051

Scripting languages: Tcl

Simulation tools: ADSP-BF533 EZ-Kit LITE, 8051 MIDE,

QDSP5000TM Dbx

Hardware debugging tools: ETM (Embedded Trace Macrocell),

Lauterbach JTAG, ISDB, ICE

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