Project Software Engineer

Rajat Khanda

**** ****** ***, *** ****, Stafford, TX 77477, USA Email:

*****.*****@*****.*** Cell: 713-***-****

Educational Qualification:

MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Houston, TX

08/07 - 12/09

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from MNNIT, India

07/02 - 06/06

Professional Experience:

Title: Research Assistant with Wireless System Research Lab, UH, Houston,

TX 08/08 - Current

(Key skills enhanced: Device driver programming, Embedded Software

Development, Wireless Protocols)

. Implemented USB CDC driver on top of the core USB driver and fully

utilized its capabilities in controlling the standard serial settings

(e.g. Baud Rate, Parity and Stop Bits) and flow control.

. Designed and implemented an Application Programming Interface (API) for a

Serial Communication Channel in C language and mapped RS-232 and USB

hardware into it. Also, added new functionalities into the existing

software.

. Developed "WiSeR Emulator: An Emulation Framework for Wireless Structural

Health Monitoring" to provide a platform for emulating sensing

environment, carrying out research on sensor coverage, fault detection,

wireless health monitoring and to test new wireless MAC and Time

Synchronization Protocols.

. Implemented data compression modules (LZ77 encoding, Wavelet

decomposition, Quantization) for memory constraint sensor devices running

TinyOS-2.x (Embedded OS) using embedded C.

. Ported "TREEMAC: Localized TDMA MAC Protocol for real time high data rate

sensor networks" for TMotes running TinyOS-2.x.

Title: Software Engineer with ITC INFOTECH INDIA LTD, India

07/06 - 07/07

(Key skills enhanced: Java, J2EE development, C/C++ programming)

. Part of a 12 member JAVA Application Development team. Developed and

tested JAVA and JBoss Rule modules used for Finn Air project supporting

business transactions between Finn Air and its allied airlines.

. Implemented automated email service for ITC Limited using JAVA

Mail API.

Title: Research Intern with Dept. of ECE, IIT Kharagpur, India

12/05 - 01/06

(Key skills enhanced: Simulation Framework, C programming)

. Project on "Design of Simulation framework for Phase Locked Loop (PLL)

using C language". Implemented a second order PLL simulation framework

using loop filter model.

Title: Research Intern with VECC, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of

India, India 05/05 - 07/05

(Key skills enhanced: microcontroller programming, serial communication)

. Project on "Speech frequency detection and Serial Communication using

microcontroller (AT89C2052) and C".

Technical expertise:

. Programming Languages C, C++, nesC, Embedded

C, Java, CSIM, Matlab, 8085, 8086 Assembly language

. Operating Systems Windows XP,

Linux, TinyOS, RTOS, Embedded Linux, Android

. Simulation/ Tools Ethereal,

Spectrum Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer, DDD, KEIL, JTAG, GNU Make

. Scripting languages Python, Shell,

JavaScript

. Database MySql

. Microcontrollers/Microprocessors 89C2052, MSP430, ARM,

OMAP 3530

. Protocols WLAN(802.11), Zigbee (802.15.4),

Bluetooth, CDMA, TCP/IP, Universal Plug and Play

protocol (UPnP), Time synchronization protocol

(RBS, FTSP), JINI, VOIP

. Specific Knowledge/Skills Signal

processing, Embedded Operating system, Computer

architecture, Multithreaded application

programming, Device drivers, UART, embedded

system programming, ADC, DAC, CC2420 protocol

stack

Course Projects:

(Key skills enhanced: Leadership, RTOS, Socket Programming, Wireless

Systems, Embedded Systems)

. Team Leader: Project on "Design and Implementation of ICE Network

Controller" for a range or wireless devices using heterogeneous MAC

Protocols (802.11, Bluetooth). The network controller discovers the

devices irrespective of their MAC protocol, assigns a logical ID,

registers their services and keeps track of the active devices without

manual intervention.

. Team Leader: Project on "Design of Efficient Handoff Technique using

Preemptive Priority Model". Proposed a mathematical model for designing

soft handoff techniques in mobile networks and simulated using MATLAB.

. Project based on "TCP/IP using TCP socket for client/server programming"

using I/O multiplexing and threads.

. Designed and implemented "signal processing package for TinyOS-

2.x" using embedded C.

. Designed and simulated a "Wireless CDMA Rake Receiver" in SystemC for

single and multi-user transmission.

. Project on "Design of Embedded Web-Server with DAQ

Implementation".

Publication:

R. Khanda, J. Hall, R. Zheng, and G. Song "WISER EMULATOR: An Emulation

Framework for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring" Accepted to Earth and

Space 2010, Hawaii.

Professional affiliation:

. IEEE Student Member, Member of GISO, Member of MNNIT Robotics Club

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