Project System Administrator

Kartik Mohta

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Permanent Address Present Address

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New Ramdaspeth, Philadelphia, PA

Nagpur - 440 010, USA 19104

Maharashtra, India Phone: +1-215-***-****

Education

Year Degree/Certi cate Institute/Board CGPA/Aggregate

2010 2011 M.S.E. in Robotics University of Pennsylvania 3.81

2004 2008 B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay 8.32/10

HSC (Class 12th )

2004 Maharashtra State Board 90.67%

SSC (Class 10th )

2002 Maharashtra State Board 87.6%

Achievements

Silver Medallist at the 35th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2004) held in South Korea.

Institute Person of the Year (Technical Activities) for the years 2005 06 and 2006 07 at IIT Bombay.

All India Rank 108 among around 180, 000 students in IIT-JEE 2004.

All India Rank 4 in the National Science Olympiad 2004.

Was among the National Top 1% in the National Standard Examination in Physics held in 2003-04.

Research Experience

Memory Subsystem in System-on-Chips

August 2007 April 2008

The aim of the project was to implement a cache coherence protocol for MemSim, a multi-processor

memory subsystem simulator being developed at IIT Bombay. I designed a protocol and worked on its

sample implementation. This project was done under the supervision of Prof. Madhav P. Desai.

Interference of Light using Lasers and Ophthalmic Lenses

December 2005 December 2006

We studied the interference patterns due to re ected light from the front and back surfaces of ophthalmic

lenses. We got various patterns depending on the type and the power of the lens. This method can be used

to characterise the lenses, study the surfaces of the lenses and also detect the imperfections in them. This

was done under Dr. Rajesh Khaparde at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education.

Work Experience

Insilica Semiconductors

July 2008 October 2009

At Insilica, I have worked on a wide range of projects such as programming a VLIW architecture based

DSP in a dye-sublimation printer, UI development for Digital Photo Frames (DPF) and parsing of online

RSS/Atom feeds from photo-sharing sites to get slide shows of user s online photos on the DPF.

GE Healthcare (Internship)

May 2007 July 2007

During my internship at GE Healthcare (Bangalore) I worked on designing a Serial Peripheral Interface

(SPI) on a FPGA in their ECG machines to replace the proprietary interface they had earlier.

Course Projects

Secure Wireless transmission of data using encryption and frequency hopping

Autumn 2007

We made a secure wireless system using encryption and frequency hopping for secure transmission of data.

The encryption was done using PN (Pseudo Noise) Codes. Frequency hopping ensures that even if

someone with a receiver is listening for our signal, he would get only a part of the signal and would not be

able to decode it properly, making the system very secure.

PID controller

Autumn 2006

The purpose of the project was lifting a variable weight (within some limits) using a motor, to a xed

height which can be set by the user. The motor was controlled by PWM which in turn was controlled by

a PID controller. This was done under Prof. Mukul Chandorkar and Prof. Mahesh Patil as a part of the

Analog Electronics Lab.

Mathematical Package in C++

Autumn 2004

Developed a mathematical package in C++ which had a wide variety of capabilities including calculating

Fourier coe cients of a function, solving di erential equations numerically etc. This was done as a course

project under Prof. Sharat Chandran.

Personal Projects

Micromouse

A micromouse is an autonomous robot which has to nd the centre of an unknown maze starting from

one end in the shortest time. In 2007 our micromouse won the Best Design prize at Techfest (the annual

technological festival of IIT Bombay). At Techfest 2008, our micromouse came rst with a record time of

12.6 seconds placing it amongst the fastest micromice in India.

Image Processing

Developed prototype robots and their software using the OpenCV library for image processing competitions

in Techfest 2007, 2008 and 2009. The competitions involved the use of colour detection, edge detection and

object detection algorithms of Image processing.

Electronics and Computer Skills

Micro-controllers: 8051, Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC, ARM

Languages: C/C++, Java, Visual Basic

Scripting: PHP, Python, Bash, Javascript

Packages used: Spice, MATLAB, Mathematica, OpenCV, Eagle (PCB Layout)

Operating Systems used: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

Extra-Curricular Activities

Awarded the Institute Citation for contribution to technical activities at IIT Bombay

Awarded Institute Technical Colour for the year 2004-05 for extra-curricular technical activities

Have won various competitions at Techfest (the annual technological festival of IIT Bombay):

1. Viscometer (2005) The task involved making the most accurate meter to measure viscosity of

di erent liquids.

2. Decathlon (2005) It was a team event, consisting of several small competitions related to various

branches of engineering.

3. iClean (2006) This event required us to make an autonomous vacuum cleaner which cleaned up the

oor guided by a grid of lines laid on the oor.

4. Codemaestros (2007) This was a team event consisting of various parts, each related to a di erent

domain of computers like programming, networking etc.

Posts Held

Was the convener of the Electronics Club of IIT Bombay for 2006-2007

Served as the System Administrator of my hostel at IIT Bombay for the years 2006-2008

Was the Computer Secretary of my hostel at IIT Bombay for the year 2005-2006

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