Project Manager Engineering

L-**/B, (Third Floor) Block L

Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017

Mayank Kumar Email: ******.***@*****.***

Mayank Kumar Mobile: +919*********

C AREER OBJECTIVE

To pursue applied research in the field of signal processing and wireless communication to bring out innovation in

ubiquitous connectivity

A CADEMIC DETAILS

Year Degree/Exam Institute GPA/Marks 2010 B.Tech in Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 8.96/10 (DR # 3)

2006 CBSE, Class XII Modi Public School 88 % (PCM)

2004 CBSE, Class X D.A.V. Public School 94 %

S CHOLASTIC ACHIEVEME NTS

Secured Department Rank 3 among 45 B.Tech students in Electrical Engineering in IIT Delhi.

Awarded the Best B.Tech Project Award by Director, IITD for best bachelor thesis project in 2010.

W on Yahoo HackU Award, 2009 organized by Yahoo R&D and judged by Rasmus Lerdorf (Creator of PHP)

Awarded IITD Semester merit Award 4 times in 8 Semesters for outstanding academic achievements.

Awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Award, 2008 (SURA) by Industrial R&D Center, IIT Delhi.

Secured an All India Rank of 272 among 400,000 students in IIT Joint Entrance Examination, 2006.

Selected (among 31 others across India) to be a part of International Physics Olympiad Training Camp, 2006.

Awarded Certificate of merit for being among top 1% of 29585 students in National Physics Olympiad, 2006.

S TARTUP EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (C.T.O) ( Yantrr Electronic Systems Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India)

Astitva SDR General Purpose SDR platform

Sept, 2011 Present

Project Lead

Ideated the development of custom SDR platform especially tailored for TV whitespace applications.

Evaluated existing SDR platforms like USRP2, SFF SDR (Lyrtech) and WARP board as TV whitespace testbeds.

Leading the design team to develop flexible SDR architecture comprising separate RF, IF and baseband boards.

Awaiting initial seed funding through Technopreneurship Promotion Program (TePP) project fund by DSIR, GOI.

Wireless Broadband over TV whitespace in India

March 2011 July 2011

Project Manager

Conducted technical and market feasibility of using TV whitespace spectrum for broadband internet access in

rural and semi-urban India in collaboration with Bharti Airtel.

Studied RF propagation in TV bands, Link Budget to obtain cell edge data rate and cell area and possible PHY

and MAC layer air interface (IEEE 802.22), and technical feasibility of opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) `

Developed business models for last mile rural broadband and urban backhaul for hotspots using TV whitespace.

Intelligent Notice Board (iNB)

Aug 2010 Dec 2010

Project Lead

Designed Intelligent Notice Board System (iNB) to replace paper based conventio nal notice boards in campuses.

Design and development of the system on TI s Leopard Board using GStreamer Media framework to disseminate

multimedia content using Ethernet.

Lead 6-member student team for the implementation and pilot operations of the system in IIT-Delhi.

Conducted market survey of digital signage and outdoor advertisement Industry as a prospective business

opportunity in India.

I NDUSTRIAL E XPERIENCE (1 .5 Y EAR S )

Auditory Brainstem Response Screening System (Stanford India Bio -Design Center, AIIMS, New Delhi)

May 2011 Present

Algorithm & development Consultant

Developed newborn hearing screening device based on automated auditory brainstem response (ABR) detection.

Devised novel algorithm for detecting low (100 nV) ABR signal in presence of 30 dB high EEG and EM noise.

Developed a standalone prototype of the system on TI s DSP with stimulus generation, data acquisition, signal

processing and data storage firmware for conducting clinical studies on adults.

The standalone prototype was a prime attraction in India Medtech summit, 2011 and resulted in one India patent.

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Pedestrian Navigation System R & D (CSR plc, Noida)

Dec 2010 April, 2010

Engineering Consultant

Developed and implemented an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based system error estimator for a pedestrian

navigation system.

Conducted benchmarking and performance evaluation of existing navigation algorithms to highlight scope of

improvements.

Incorporated pedestrian biomechanical constraints in EKF to reduce system error to below 1% for 100 m long

walking cases.

MEMS INS - R & D (Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, IIT Delhi)

Aug 2010 Nov 2010

Research Associate

Error analysis and stochastic m odeling of MEMS INS sensors for performance improvement of attitude and

trajectory calculation

Assessed and modeled the stochastic error present in MEMS accelerometer, gyroscope and compass using

Gauss Markov (GM), Autoregressive (AR) and ARMA models.

Developed optimal Kalman filter based on AR and ARMA analysis of sensor data to adaptively filter out colored

sensor noise

GPS Application (Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore)

May 2009 July 2009

Engineering Trainee

Developed an application to gauge performance of GPS receivers during field trials without reference data.

Improvised the idea of using Google Maps data as reference to generate error statistics.

Conceptualized and implemented the application from scratch to a stage where it is used across all TI centers.

A CADEMIC PROJECTS

Navigation System using Inertial Sensors and GPS

Aug 2009 May 2010

Advisor: Prof. Arun Kumar (CARE, IITD), Prof. Manish Sharma (CARE, IITD)

Developed Pedestrian Navigation System (PNS) using in-mobile MEMS Accelerometer, Gyroscope and compass

sensors with CSR SiRF for smart phones to track position, orientation and context (walking, running, stationary

etc) of users in indoors.

Developed an in-field sensor calibration algorithms, Kalman filter based optimal sensor fusion algorithm to

calculate attitude and heading, and step-detection and step-length estimation algorithm to determine trajectory of

pedestrian with below 3% accuracy.

Received the Best B.Tech Project Award by Director, IITD and the work formed integral part of CSR s upcoming

product.

Knowledge Management in Academia: A case Study - IIT Delhi

Aug 2009 May 2010

Advisor: Prof. Poornima Singh (Humanities Department, IITD)

Research into the scope and need of Knowledge Management in academia (IIT Delhi) and developed a student

centric knowledge management model by studying constituents of transferable knowledge and psychological

barriers to knowledge sharing.

Presented the work in Knowledge Management International Conference (KMICe), 2010 and published it in

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA).

Design and Implementation of Parallel Image Processor on FPGA

Jan, 2009 April, 2009

Advisor: Dr. Anshul Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering, IITD

Designed novel parallel processor architecture to accelerate image processing tasks for real time embedded

applications.

Implemented image change detection algorithm on an array of four Microblaze processors on Virtex IV Kit.

Devised mechanisms for inter-processor communication and shared memory architecture for efficient sharing and

flow of data.

Evolutionary Algorithm for FPGA based Design using Genetic programming and VHDL

May 2008 July 2008

Advisor: Dr. Santanu Chaudhury, (Electrical Engineering Department, IITD)

Developed an automated approach to digital hardware design by applying G enetic Programming on VHDL using

GP Kernel.

Automatically evolved circuits lik e multipliers and GCD processors using mutations and crossover operations .

Awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) by Industrial R&D Center, IITD for the

outstanding research.

R ELEVANT C OURSES

Electrical Engineering: Signals & Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Analog and Digital Communications,

Digital Electronics, Embedded Systems, Control Engineering, Computer Architecture, Electromagnetic W aves

Computer Engineering: Introduction to Computer Science, Data Structure, Computer Networks, Operating

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Systems,

Mathematics and Economics: Probability and Stochastic Processes, Introduction to Linear Algebra and Matrix,

Microeconomics and Macroeconomics

T ECHNICAL SKILLS

Language: C/C++, Perl, Java, MATLAB, VHDL (FPGA), Assembly Language, Shell Scripts

Hardware Platform: C5515 DSP, DM355/365 DaVinci, Xilinx Virtex II Pro, Virtex IV Video Starter

Operating Systems Platforms: Linux, Embedded Linux, Android OS, GStreamer

Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Drupal and Wordpress CMS, and AJAX

O THER A CTIVITIES

Co-Founder and KM - Coordinator, Technocracy-IITD

Envisioned and started a student body to promote and coordinate research and development among undergrad

students in IIT-D.

Represented a 70 member Technocracy Team in Senate, IITD to lay down its activities and roadmap to achieve

its milestones.

Led a 15 member Knowledge Management Team for creating an internally accessible KM centric project

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database, Technopedia (a technical campus wiki) and web interest groups in collaboration with computer

services center (CSC, IITD).

Chairman, IEEE- IITD Student Chapter

Rejuvenated IEEE IITD student body by ensuring representation from different years to create a pyramidal

structure.

Led a 5 member team to organize various workshops and competitive events like Shownin120Seconds.

Collaborated with other student branch of IEEE Delhi section for a region level GINI Initiative.

Technology Workshops

Conducted 2 workshops in Drupal and Web Development in IIT Delhi under Technocracy workshop series. .

Organized and conducted two workshops in M ATLAB and one in Robotics as an Ideas2ignite initiate.

P ATENTS AND PUBLICAT IONS

A system and apparatus for Auditory Evoked Potential (AEP) data acquisition for hearing screening (2011

India Patent)

Mayank Kumar and Anuraag Gupta, Knowledge Management in Academia An engineering institute s case

study, KMICe 2010 submitted to American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA) 2011.

W hite paper on Broadband connectivity to Rural masses using TV bands in India, Yantrr Electronic

Systems Pvt. Ltd.

R EFERENCES

Dr. Manish Sharma Dr. Balram Bhargava

Associate Professor, Center for Applied Research in Executive Director, Stanford India Biodesign Center

Electronics (CARE) All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi New Delhi, India

Email: ******@****.****.*****.** Email: **************@*****.***

Dr. Arun Kumar Dr. S.D. Joshi

Professor CARE Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Email: ******@****.****.*****.** Email: *******@**.****.**.**

O THER INTERESTS

Blogging (http://mayank.ideas2ignite.com/blog), Web Hacking, Saint Kabir s and Vivekanand s Philosophy,

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