Engineering Assistant

Asif Al Rasheed

Troy, MI *****

906-***-**** ********@***.*** www.linkedin.com/in/asifalrasheed/

Objective:

Obtain a full time position or internship in RF/Antenna Design.

Education:

Michigan Technological University (MTU) Houghton, MI

MS in Electrical Engineering (GPA: 3.89/4.00) August 2014

Relevant Courses: Microwave Technique & Antennas, Antenna Design, Detection and Estimation Theory, Digital

Communications, Wireless Communications, GPU and Multicore Programming, Biomedical Signal Processing

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Dhaka, Bangladesh

B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (GPA: 3.85/4.00) October 2009

Relevant Courses: Digital Signal Processing, Control System, Biomedical Instrumentation, Advanced

Telecommunication Engineering, Optical Fiber Communication

Certifications:

CCNA (in preparation, exam tentatively scheduled)

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages: C/C++, Embedded C, CUDA, Assembly Languages (Nios II and 80 86), Verilog, VHDL

Hardware: MPC56xx MCU, TMS320C64X Digital Signal Processor, Altera DE2 Development Kit, Atmel ATmega32,

Altera FLEX10K CPLD, Programmable Logic Controller, MCP4821 DAC, MTS -86C, MDA 8086, Rhode Schwartz Vector

Network Analyzer, Stepper Motor, Display (LCD, 7 Segment), Oscilloscope

Simulation and Design Tools: MATLAB, Simulink, NI LabView, NI Multisim, ANSYS SIwave, ANSYS Simplorer,

ANSYS Q3D Extractor, ANSYS Designer, EM.Cube Suite, CadSoft EAGLE, Mathematica, Orcad PSpice, CircuitMaker,

Cadence Tools, MicroWind, DSCH, AutoCAD

Full Wave Electromagnetic Simulators: ANSYS HFSS, ANSYS Maxwell, CST Microwave Studio, FEKO

IDE: Quartus II, Visual Studio, Altera Monitor Program, PonyProg

Standards/Specifications: Voice over WiFi, Voice over LTE, Voice over IP, LTE PHY layer 3GPP 36 series

Operating Systems and Other Applications: Linux, MS Windows, MS Office

Experience:

MTU, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Houghton, MI

Graduate Research Assistant under NSF funded projects Aug 2011 - August 2014

Project: THz Short Range Communications May 2013 - August 2014

Envisioned future and identified current applications of inter- and intra-chip communications including

clock and data transmission in multi core chips and Wireless Network on Chips (WiNoCs)

Proposed approaches for theoretical investigation and simulation in MATLAB and EM.Cube of channel

parameters such as path loss, power delay profile, delay spread, angular spread, beamforming, spatial,

temporal and spectral correlation, fading statistics, antenna and antenna array structures and modulation

and transmission schemes for short range communications in THz band (0.1-10 THz)

Investigated received power in computer motherboard using diffraction theory based ray tracing in

MATLAB and EM.Cube in 100 and 300 GHz. Researched effects of transmitter-receiver distance, height of

transmitter, component population and distribution and number of reflec tions on received power

Project: Impact of Rough Surface on Outdoor Smallcells Aug 2011 - Apr 2013

Derived closed form expression of spatial correlation using Kirchhoff approximation

Evaluated effect of roughness average height, receiver separation, transmitter-receiver distance, transmitter

and receiver heights, roughness correlation distance and ratio of Line of Sight (LOS) to Non-LOS (NLOS)

power on power and spatial correlation for 30, 60 and 300 GHz

Investigated effect of above parameters on power and spatial correlation by ray tracing in MATLAB

Graduate Teaching Assistant Sep 2012 - Apr 2013

Communicated design and construction of I/O devices in Altera DE2 Developm ent Kit to 30 students

Coached NIOS II assembler language, C/embedded C, Verilog, system integration and testing

Primeasia University, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dhaka, Bangladesh

Lecturer for courses on VLSI, Microprocessor and Interfacing and Digital Electronics Oct 2009 - Apr 2011

Generated course content, laboratory manual and exam questions for a total number of 100 students

Instructed Trained students on using MTS-86C, MDA-8086, MicroWind and DSCH

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BUET, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dhaka, Bangladesh

Research Assistant working on undergraduate thesis and projects Jul 2008 - Oct 2009

Thesis: Performance Analysis of Free Space Optical (FSO) Systems over Atmospheric Turbulence Channel

Introduced Intensity Modulation scheme for transmission, Sequence Inverse Keying correlator for reception

and scintillation by gamma-gamma pdf to simulate atmospheric turbulence

Simulated the effect of varying number of users and degrees of scintillation on BER performance of FSO

CDMA and Multi Carrier (MC)-O(Optical)CDMA for different length of non-orthogonal codes in MATLAB

Developed analytical model of Multi Carrier (MC)-CDMA Rake receiver for Rayleigh multipath fading

channel based on Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) diversity and evaluated BER performance for different

fingers using MATLAB simulation and compared against a conventional MC-CDMA receiver

Robi Axiata Limited (GSM) and Citycell Limited (CDMA) Dhaka, Bangladesh

Trainee with different divisions such as NOC, switching, planning and monitoring Dec 2008

Gained knowledge about VLR, HLR, BTS, BSC, MSC, GPRS and infrastructure of cellular networks

Projects:

Design of an E-shaped Patch Antenna for Local Positioning Applications Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

Devised antenna for 2.45 GHz center frequency, 80 MHz bandwidth, 90 degree beamwidth and low front to

back lobe ratio to be used as part of an antenna array employed in Wireless Local Positioning systems

Calibrated patch and slot dimensions, feed point locations of the antenna through FEKO simulation of far-

field pattern, beamwidth, bandwidth, S-parameter, Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) and impedance

Fabricated the antenna on RT Duriod 6002, tested for far-field pattern in anechoic chamber and used Rhode

Schwartz Vector Network Analyzer to measure S-parameter, VSWR and antenna impedance

Optimization of Orbit Transfer from Low Earth orbit (LEO) to Geostationary orbit (GEO) Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

Computed thrust angle history for minimum fuel consumption, 5% tolerance in final velocity and radius of

final orbit of the satellite and perpendicularity of velocity and radius of orbit in final position

Ran pattern search method using initial guesses to meet the constraints and utilized constrained

optimization for optimizing velocity and radius of orbit in MATLAB

Demonstrated satellite maneuver path from LEO to GEO with the computed thrust angles

Time of Arrival (TOA)-Based RF Localization in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

Created simplified but functional human body model in FEKO and used Finite Element Method (FEM) to get

TOA of an endoscopic capsule on its travel inside the stomach, small intestine and large intestine using

different number of sensors and sensor array configurations in the MICS band (402-406 MHz)

Implemented localization using trilateration in MATLAB to get localization accuracy from TOAs and capsule

locations inside the three organs

Compared localization accuracy for different number and/or configurations of sensors and capsule locations

Radar Signal Detection: Amplitude and Time of Arrival Estimation Mar 2012 - Apr 2012

Analyzed signal corrupted by additive Gaussian noise received from distant targets to determine presence

Constructed a correlation receiver with a variable start time and a matched filter to compare their results

Conducted Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) Neiman-Pierson hypothesis test for a given false alarm rate

Simulated for numbers of targets, their TOA and amplitudes in MATLAB

Motion Estimation in CUDA Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

Utilized parallelism for 1D and 2D motion estimation in CUDA 2.x for variable block and search sizes

Computed different transfer timings within GPU, tested and benchmarked against CPU in NVIDIA GF100

Improved algorithm and memory efficiency to achieve maximum speed up ratio of 100 or more indicating

100 times or faster performance than compared CPU

Modified Booth Multiplier and Filter design Oct 2009 - Mar 2010

Developed a modified 8x8 Booth multiplier taking into account polarity of multiplier and multiplicand

Constructed the multiplier in CircuitMaker and observed output for different combination of inputs

Designed FIR and IIR filters using MATLAB’s FDATool for desired sampling frequency, and attenuation

Design of Eye Motion Controlled Mouse using ATmega32 Microcontroller Jun 2009 - Oct 2009

Placed solid gel electrodes on the user’s face to detect bioelectric potential due eye movement

Created and implemented Electrooculogram (EOG) biopotential amplifier in CircuitMaker to operate

between 10 Hz and DC to amplify and differentiate eye movement as part of Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)

Programmed ATMEGA32 in embedded C to work as Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) to communicate with

PC through serial port to demonstrated bioelectric potential and cursor movement in MATLAB

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Publications and Presentations:

“Rough Surface Impact on Spatial Correlation: 30, 60 and 300 GHz,” IEEE Global Communications

Conference (GLOBECOM), Atlanta, GA, Dec 2013

“A New Approach in the Modeling of an MC-CDMA RAKE Receiver and Its Performance Evaluation

under the Effect of Multipath Fading Channel”, 2010 International Conference on Computational

Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), November 2010

"Effect of Atmospheric Turbulence on Free Space Optical Multi-carrier Code Division Multiple

Access," 2010 12th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim), March 2010

“Performance Analysis of A Free-Space Optical Code Division Multiple Access Through Atmospheric

Turbulence Channel,” ICCIT, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, August 2009

Poster presentation on undergraduate thesis findings in EEE Undergraduate Project Workshop (EUProW),

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Oct 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Awards and Affiliations:

NSF Research Fellowship in MTU

BUET Merit Scholarship

Dean’s List in all undergrad semesters

IEEE Student Member

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