Signal Processing Design

Mahek Rana

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Objective: Seeking a position in the field of RF/Microwave/Communications/DSP where I can utilize my practical knowledge of the advanced Communication Systems & Signal Processing along with my experience of RF simulation and designing tools like GENESYS, ADS.

Education:

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL Graduation Date: 12th May 2012

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.81/4.0

ProjectsA 10 dB Microstrip Directional Coupler Design simulation in ADS: utilized linecale and S-PARAMETERS tool to simulate and create the layout in ADS for 5 GHz center frequency and bandwidth of 400 MHz.Technical Review Paper on A 1.4V 25mW Inductorless Wideband LNA in 130nm CMOS: Presented the methods employed for impedance matching, gain improvement, linearization and noise cancellation in the LNA design and compared them with the existing ones and current standards.Discrete Fourier Transform Implementation in Matlab and Xilinx: realization based on Goertzel, Cooley-Tukey and Rader AlgorithmsMatlab simulation of communication system employing M=4 biorthogonal signals: considering random variations in signal. Simulated the system for Probability of Error for Gaussian PDF.Matlab simulation of Area wide coverage/reliability, RSSI and Probability of outage for a base station: considering Log-Normal distribution, Rayleigh Distribution and Propagation-Law for a desired coverage area. Simulation in VanetMobiSim and NS2: V2P over VANETs a ride sharing system over Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs).Design of Linear Predictor and the Lattice Filter in Matlab: It was realized considering the Yule-Walker equations.Evolution to LTE Release-10: Presented key features of LTE Release-8 and 9. Improvements for Release-10 like dual layer beam forming & MIMO, eMBMS, new modulation schemes.Evolution to 4G: Covers the whole evolution of wireless communication systems from Analog to 4G/LTEOFDM/OFDMA for LTE: Covered issues like Orthogonality, multipath, intersymbol interface, cyclic prefix, advantages and disadvantages of OFDMSimulation of 2D Motion Estimation Techniques for Video Processing in Matlab such as, Exhaustive Block Matching Algorithm, Three Step Search, New Three Step Search, Four step search, Diamond search and Adaptive Rood Pattern Search Algorithms. Integrated them in a Matlab GUI for comparison purpose.

Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India Graduation Date: May 2009

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Telecommunications GPA: 3.5/4.0

ProjectsSimulation and Design of RF Transceiver used for GSM/CDMA Mobile Communication Systems (Jan’09 – May’09): Used powerful RF simulation and designing tool Agilent's GENESYS to design block by block complete transceiver chain. Simulated and tested it for variations in sensitivity, antenna gain, path-loss, LNA gain, filter/mixer nonlinearities and channel and determined RF Link budget. Also did sub-circuit designing of top-c coupled Butterworth Band- Pass filter in GENESYS. Simulation of Digital Communication Systems (Aug’08): Simulated ASK, M-PSK, DPSK, M-QAM, M-FSK, MSK in Matlab Simulink and integrated those models to Matlab GUI for the ease of comparing results. Also, computed overall Bit Error Rate (BER) for each scheme.Sudoku Solving Program (Mar’07): Presented the C++ project which solves any Sudoku puzzle at a national level technical symposium Prevoyance'07, Nirma University.

Technical Skills: Strong Communications and RF/Microwave concepts (IS-95, GSM, UMTS, LTE-8-9-10, 802.3, 802.11)Strong Signal Processing fundamentals (Image Processing, Video Processing, FFTs)RF/Microwave designing and simulation tools: ADS and GENESYSHands on experience of RF/Microwave Lab equipments such as impedance matching loads, waveguides, Network AnalyzerCoding Skills: Matlab, C, C++, UNIX/Linux (basic Shell Scripting)Other Software Tools: OrCAD Capture, Xilinx, Altera Quartus II, Circuit Maker, PSpice, Mathematica 8, Visual Basic, Microsoft OfficeGraphics Editing and Web Designing Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Swish Max, XHTML

Work Experience: Internet Lab Supervisor, on campus Employment (Sep'11-May'12): Assign lectures to Internet Lab Developers, check developed lectures, keep track of the lecture production and post developed lectures to the internet for remote/online students within a time frame of 24 hours. Write reports about the production; use Google Docks and Excel Sheets to maintain the database of posted lectures.Internet Lab Developer, on campus Employment (Jan'11 - Aug'11): Edit, synchronize slides and presentations to develop recorded lectures using softwares like Accordant, Topaz Moment and Photoshop. I was promoted as an Internet Lab Supervisor.

Activities and Awards:

My band won 3rd prize at the cultural night 2012 at Illinois Institute of Technology where I performed as a rhythm guitarist.Won 1st prize in Art Competition Rang De' IIT 2011 at Illinois Institute of Technology for my pencil sketch. Volunteered for the Big Event 2011, which is the annual event to show appreciation to the surrounding community by completing service projects such as yard work, window washing, and painting for community members around Illinois Institute of Technology campus.Attended workshops on PCB Layout Designing- using OrCAD Capture, LaTeX for Engineers, Linux for Engineers, PHP coding, Maya 3D, Macromedia Flash, Mathematica in Education and Research and Matlab for Engineers. Won 1st prize in "Web Designing" and "Flash Animation" competitions by IEEE student's branch at Nirma University. Won 1st prize in Photography Competition, "Clix & Flix" at Prevoyance'08 at Nirma University. Won 2nd prize in Cartooning, at the Cultural Fest of Nirma University.Member of Electronics & Communication Organization (ECO) (2005 - 2009) at Nirma University.Presented Technical Papers on IPTV, DWDM during my under graduation.

Course Work:

RF Integrated Circuit Design, Technologies for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) of Wireless Communications Networks, Microwave Circuits and Systems with Laboratory, Advanced VLSI Architecture for Signal Processing and Communications, Wireless Communication System Design, Wireless and Mobile Networks, Communication Engineering Fundamentals, Video Communication, Analysis of Random Signals, Antenna Theory, Digital Signal Processing 1, Digital Signal Processing 2.

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