Electrical Engineering
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SAMPLE ECE RESUME - Freshman and Sophomore
Current Address Permanent Address
SMC 6236, 5032 Forbes Avenue 18 Walnut Drive
FIRSTNAME M. LASTNAME
Pittsburgh, PA 15289-6236 Nashua, NH 03064-8105
412-***-**** (Cell) 603-***-****
***@******.***.***
U.S. Citizen
OBJECTIVE To obtain a summer internship utilizing my skills in computer engineering and robotics
EDUCATION CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2015
Overall GPA: 3.37/4.00
NASHUA HIGH SCHOOL (NHS), Nashua, NH
High School Diploma June 2011
Overall GPA: 3.80/4.00
Rank: 5/196
RELEVANT Electrical and Computer Engineering* Mechanical Engineering and Physics
COURSES Differential Equations Advanced Programming in Java*
Calculus in Three Dimensions *Fall 2012
SKILLS Programming Languages: Java
Software: Microsoft Office
Operating Systems: W indows XP/Vista, MacOS 8/9/10, UNIX
Spoken Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
PROJECTS Robot, Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU Spring 2012
Constructed smaller circuits using a protoboard to power a beeper, LED, clock,
memory chip, and 2 motors
Combined circuits to create a mini programmable robot
Programmed the robot to successfully complete a test course
Mousetrap Car, Mechanical Engineering and Physics, CMU Fall 2011
Designed and constructed a mousetrap car, in a team of 2 students, to compete in
a competition where the car must travel at least 20 feet, but must stop before it
travels 30 feet
WORK O CONNOR IRRIGATION, Nashua, NH
EXPERIENCE Irrigation System Installation Workman Summer 2012
Assisted Senior Associate with plumbing, head installation, Ditch Witch, trench
digging, wiring, and programming
Developed schematics using proper measurements and gauges
Applied and spread appropriate amounts of loam and grass seed post-installation
ACTIVITIES Varsity Soccer, CMU: August 2011 Present
Intramural Softball, CMU: 2011
Intramural Doubles Table Tennis, CMU: 2011
National Honor Society Secretary, NHS: 2010 2011
Varsity Club President, NHS: 2010 2011
Varsity Soccer Captain, NHS: 2010 2011
Intramural Table Tennis Manager, NHS: Spring 2010
HONORS Dean s List, College of Engineering, CMU: Fall 2011
NHS Mathematics Award: 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Book Award: 2010
U.S. Marines Scholarship: 2010
Who s Who Among American High School Students: 2009, 2010, 2011
SAMPLE ECE RESUME- Junior, Senior, MS
Current Address Permanent Address
SOFIE WARE
SMC 3211, 5032 Forbes Avenue 79 Grand Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15289-3211 Newport, NY 11355
********@******.***.***
U.S. Citizen
OBJECTIVE A challenging position combining my skills in electrical and computer engineering and business
EDUCATION CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2013
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2012
Minor: Business Administration
Overall GPA: 3.21/4.00
COMPUTER Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, MIPS Assembly, Verilog, HTML
SKILLS Application Software: MATLAB, Minitab, Maple
WORK GOLDMAN SACHS, New York, NY
EXPERIENCE Consolidated Equity Finance Analyst Summer 2012
Assisted Senior Associate with monthly closing process
Reconciled books and records to internal and external sources to function as a strong
internal control
Distributed stockholders equity projections to 3 members of senior management
Aided in posting transactions to the General Ledger
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA
Teaching Assistant, Economics Department Spring 2012
Instructed 35 students on the Principles of Economics
Developed class structure and weekly lesson plans, and held weekly office hours
Computing Skills Course Instructor, Computer Education August 2010 May 2012
Instructed required computer skills course for about 50 incoming freshmen
W orked with and evaluated students to promote maximum computing utilization
IBM, Gaithersburg, MD
Intern, E-Business Solutions Summer 2011
Compiled a report on web mining tools to aid in restoring IBM s internal and external sites
Installed and tested the Siebel E-business Transaction Software on IBM Netfinity Servers
Aided the IBM e-business solutions team in researching current e-marketplaces and
B2B/B2C internet companies
PROJECTS Road Sign Recognition, Digital Communication & Signal Processing System Design Spring 2011
Designed and implemented a road sign recognition algorithm on a TI C67 DSP
Presented project at the Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research Symposium
Recession of a Nation, Money and Banking Fall 2010
Composed a proposal delineating the current and future situations of America s economy
based on the trend analysis of various economic indicators as part of a 4-member team
Analog Circuit Design and Analysis, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering Fall 2009
Participated in a series of hands-on labs to build and operate analog circuits
Gained experience in circuit and component modeling, amplifiers, filters and signal
detection and processing
LEADERSHIP OM Spiritual Organization, President: April 2011 Present, Secretary: 2008 2010
Office of the Dean of Student Affairs
Planning Committee, Take Our Children to Work Day: August 2010 Present
Volunteer, Niteline Information Resource/Crisis Control Phone Line: August 2010 Present
Planning Committee, Mosaic Annual Conference on Women s Issues: 2008 2009
Society of Women Engineers, Chair, Annual Winter Semiformal: April 2009 March 2010
HONORS Dean s List, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2009
Sony Scholarship, 2008
SAMPLE ECE RESUME-PHD
XUN (DIANE) CHANG
193 Devonshire Street, APT B12, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-***-**** ******@***.***
OBJECTIVE
To establish a career in electrical engineering that can utilize my knowledge in digital signal processing and
digital communications into industry application and technology development
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
o 7+ years of research and engineering experience in signal processing and communications, specializing in
recording channel design and wireless communications physical layer development
o Intensive experience in both simulation and spin-stand waveform processing of magnetic recording and
optical recording channels, familiar with laboratory measurement equipment and high speed circuit
operations, strong programming (Matlab, C) and hardware (DSP) design skills
o Thorough knowledge in the areas of communications theory, coding theory, linear algebra,
estimation/detection/identification theory, information theory, and applied statistics
o Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with a dedication to promoting effective teamwork
EDUCATION
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering August 2013
Thesis: Advanced Detection for High Density Magnetic Recording Channel
SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY Shanghai, China
M.E. in Communication and Information Systems (Graduated with Honors) December 2008
Thesis: Study of Adaptive Turbo Coded Modulation for Future Wireless Communications
B.E. in Communication Engineering July 2006
Thesis: Application of Reed-Solomn Codes in Frequency Hopping Radio Systems
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Carnegie Mellon University, Data Storage Systems Center
Research Assistant January 2009 Present
Developed advanced detection schemes for future perpendicular recording channels using
communication theory and signal processing technology, sponsored by Seagate Technology
Proposed a novel jitter sensitive detection algorithm for transition noise dominant perpendicular
recording channels, which provides lower Bit-Error-Rate (BER) than state-of-the-art signal-
dependent noise cancellation schemes (Patent pending)
Proposed a simulation-based algorithm to compute, with higher accuracy than existing methods, the
achievable information rate of ISI channel in presence of signal dependent transition noise
Developed an iterative algorithm to estimate the statistics of transition jitter from spin-stand read-
back waveform
Developed a complete simulation system for read channel (in C), comprising turbo/LDPC
encoder/decoder, realistic perpendicular recording channel model, AGC/timing recovery, GPR
target/equalizer design module, noise-whitening filter, SOVA/APP detector and post processing
Investigated SNR sensitivity of capacity-achieving codes in both adaptive wireless transmissions
and data storage systems
Sony Corporation, Optical Recording Development Group, Tokyo, Japan
Electronics Engineer (Intern) September November 2011
Developed innovative detection schemes for future optical recording systems
Evaluated performance of numerous advanced detection schemes, with spin-stand waveforms, on
Blu-ray discs and near-field recording systems
Proposed and implemented (in C++) a new detection algorithm for near-field recording channel,
creating great interest at SONY
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XUN (DIANE) CHANG
Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Teaching Intern
Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design (Graduate Level) Spring 2012
Led projects and enhanced student DSP theory and hardware design skills withTMS320C67X
Signals and Systems (Undergraduate Level) Fall 2011
Led labs and recitations involving digital audio and image processing
Shanghai Jiaotong University, W ireless Communications Lab
Research Assistant March 2005 December 2007
Developed adaptive transmission schemes for wireless communication systems
Proposed a new variable rate coding scheme for frequency-hopping spread spectrum systems
Implemented Reed-Solomn encoder and decoder with DSP processor TMS320C54X
Trusted to write the proposal Adaptive Turbo-TCM for Future Multimedia Mobile Communications,
approval by China-NSF committee
INVENTION
X. Yang, X. Chang, R. Tse, E. M. Smith, Jitter-Sensitive Maximum-a-posteriori Sequence Detection,
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Patent pending, filed June 2012.
PUBLICATIONS (Late submission due to pending patent)
X. Chang, R. Tse, Information rate computation for perpendicular recording channel with non-
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Gaussian transition noise, Submitted for publication
X. Chang, R. Tse, Jitter sensitive detection in transition noise dominant perpendicular recording
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channel, To be submitted
X. Chang, R. Tse, Channel identification based on spin-stand read back waveform, To be submitted
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X. Chang, T. Horigome, Advanced detection in near-field recording system, To be submitted
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X. Chang, H. Lee and W. Song, Design and implementation of error-correcting code in Frequency
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Hopping communication systems, Communications Technology, vol.9, 2008
X. Chang, H. Lee and W. Song, Application of RS code in frequency hopping systems and its
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implementation, Telecommunications Information, vol.3, 2008
COMPUTER SKILLS
Languages: C/C++, Pascal, Assembly
Software: Matlab/Simulink
Hardware: DSP
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Reviewer for
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2012
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International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2012
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IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2011
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2011
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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), 2010
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SELECTED HONORS
Research Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009 Present
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Research Fellowship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2006 2008
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SIEMENS Fellowship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2007
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