Research Assistant
Resume:
JAYANT CHAWLA
San Diego, CA *****
****************@*****.*** 619-***-****
www.linkedin.com/in/jayant-chawla
Aim: To work in a challenging environment wherein the focus is on highest quality standards with productivity and effectiveness for achieving the overall objectives of the organization.
Personal Traits: I am extremely sincere, professionally dedicated & proactive personality, blessed with sharp analytical & reasoning skills, passionate to perform as an outstanding team member for the growth of organization.
Education:
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Dec 2017
• Member of SDSU IEEE – Robotics and Automation Society
GITAM University, Andhra Pradesh, India
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, May 2015
• Member of GITAM IEEE – Robotics and Automation Society
Work Experience:
1) Research Assistant in Radar/Lidar Testing lab at San Diego State University, San Diego CA, Sept 2015 – Present
• Certification of Radar/Lidar units. Performed Testing and Calibration, Tuning, Adjustment and Synchronization of Radar System.
• Used testing tools such as Microwave Frequency Counter, Power Density Meter, Laser Speed
Measurement Simulator, Optical Interface Unit, Anechoic chamber with Horn Antennas.
Radar Units - Stalker DSR, Stalker II SDR, Stalker Dual SL
Lidar Units - Ultralyte 200 LR, TruSpeed 20/20, ProLite+, TruSpeed S
Radar Testing
• Internal Circuit Test
• Tuning Fork Calibration Test
• Tuning Fork Test
• Transmission Frequency Test
• Power Density Test
• Low voltage Test
• Directional radar Test
• RFI Test
Lidar Testing
• Beam Alignment Test
• Target Discrimination Test
• Range Accuracy Test
• Low Voltage Test
• Supply Voltage Tolerance Test
• Low and High Speed Test
• Speed Accuracy Test: with and without perturbation
2) RCI, Defense Research and Development Organization Lab, Hyderabad, India
“Development and testing of Rotary Electro Mechanical Actuators for Aerospace Vehicles.” June 2014
• Designed and Tested Brushless DC Motor (BLDC)
• Used PID controller and Hall sensors for controlling the process.
• Analyzed various Motor tests such as Insulation Resistance, Armature Resistance, Armature, Inductance Test, Hall
Alignment Test, Back EMF test, No load Speed Test.
• Visualization of different Environmental testing- Random Vibration, Thermal Cycling Test, Power Burn–In test.
3) Astra Microwave Products Ltd., Hyderabad, India
“Development of Signal Conditioning Unit (SCU) and RF Conditioning Unit.”, May 2013
• Presented technical details, design, layout, test performance of SCU and RFC Unit for use on Aircraft.
• Configured using different subsystem components such as Limiter, SPDT switch, SP6T switch, Gain Equalizer,
Band Pass Filter, Gain Block Amplifier, connector like RS 232 and RS 485 etc.
Academic Project:
1) Modern Communication Theory, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
“Single-Carrier orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM & SC-OFDM) Modem with Modulation in 16 QAM.”, October 2017
• Implemented Modem in MATLAB with 200-point transform and 100 occupied frequency bins,
scaled by 10 FFT (Fast Fourier transform) and separated by a guard band of 50 zero valued samples.
• An SC-OFDM with 64-point FFT and 128-point IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier transform). Overlaid
100 Symbols Real Part Demodulator with/without Channel & Prefix.
2) Principles and Applications of Information Theory, San Diego State University San Diego, CA
“Lossless data compression using LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) Dictionary technique.” April 2017
• Encoded and Decoded sequences of data in MATLAB which are then stored in dictionary and within the compressed file.
• Implemented using lookup table which starts with first data, reads next data, and then update the table for compression.
3) Coding Theory, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
“Error Detection and Correction using Reed-Solomon (RS) Codes.” March 2017
• Wrote a program to Detect and Correct multiple errors including burst errors for a digital data.
• Used a non-binary cyclic error correcting codes to retrieve information either in transmission or storage.
4) Analytical Instrumentation, GITAM University, Andhra Pradesh, India
“Monitoring oil concentration in water.” March 2015
• Reduced the oil content in bilge water below 15ppm (as per IMO standards).
• Devised a single chip computer - 8051 microcontroller with EPROM as storage device.
• Used monolithic CMOS device such as an ADC to convert from analog to digital format for microcontroller.
5) Industrial Instrumentation, Defense Research and Development Lab, Hyderabad, India
“Analysis of Strain in a loaded cantilever beam.” March 2013
• Devised a system using strain gauges, Load Cell analyzing Strength, Stiffness, Ductility using tensile test.
• Measured Force & Elongation using F-ΔL diagram and also finding Modulus of Elasticity using the formula E = σ/ε in Stress-Strain Curve.
Computer Skills:
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Python
• Hardware: Mechatronics
• Design Tools: PSpice, PuTTY, proteus, ADS, MATLAB, AutoCAD
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
• Analysis Software: LabVIEW
Additional Experience:
Research Assistant in Radar/Lidar Testing lab at San Diego State University, San Diego CA, Sept 2015 – Present
• Hands on experience with National Instrument’s Mechatronics sensor and Actuator kit which
includes Piezo electric sensors, pressure sensor, flex gage, potentiometer, IR sensor, Optical sensor, magnetic Field Sensor, Encoder and temperature sensors like RTD, Op Amps.
• Actuators which includes DC Motor control such as Servo Motor Control, BLDC motor control and their programming with LabVIEW and interfacing to NI ELVIS and DAQ. Also Including Biomedical Instrumentation and working with ECG, EEG, EMG testing.
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