Electrical Engineer Assistant

Siddharth Saxena

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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA OHNEKA FARMS ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

August 2014 – October 2014 New York

MSE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Expected May 2015 Philadelphia, PA • Worked on their first product ROOT to build its functional prototype with

GPA: 3.17/4.0 embedded sensor interface and controllers to control the artificial LED lighting,

nutrient and water flow into the plant tower depending on the plant grown

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI • Formulated test plans and executed them on prototypes and pre-production

BE IN ELECTRONICS AND TELECOM samples

Grad. July 2013 Mumbai, India

GPA: 4.0/4.0 DETKIN LABORATORY LABORATORY TEACHING ASSISTANT

September 2013 – Present Philadelphia, PA

LINKS • Created and demonstrated labs for undergraduate electrical engineering

Courses on various micro-controllers, op-amps, BJT, FET, fiber optics,

Github:// sidd-saxena oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers

LinkedIn:// siddharth saxena

• Mentored students in their projects and helped them from prototyping their

YouTube:// siddsaxena

idea to presenting it in front of venture capitalists as a business model

SKILLS RESEARCH

PROGRAMMING

HIGH SPEED PHOTONICS LABORATORY RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Over 5000 lines:

May 2014 – July 2014 Philadelphia, PA

Java • C++ • C • MATLAB • HTML

• Worked under Prof. Firooz Aflatouni to create an interface to control the

• Simulink • Pebble

stepper motors to take the measurements of an optical fiber using MATLAB

Over 1000 lines:

• Designed an electronic circuit to characterize an optical amplifier

Shell• Python • Assembly • OpenCV

Familiar:

SAMEER, IIT BOMBAY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

ns3 • Android •LabView • RTOS

June 2012 – May 2013 Mumbai, India

HARDWARE • Designed a signal processing circuit in order to obtain signals from nerves in the

ARM • Arduino • Raspberry Pi • mbed arm and convert them to the specified amplitude and required range of

•Galileo•3-D Printing•Cypress Psoc frequencies

• i Robot Roomba • Programmed the micro controller in embedded C in order to perform various

functions on a 3-D printed arm according to the signals obtained (Published)

COURSEWORK

KEY PROJECTS

GRADUATE

Real Time Embedded Systems

SMARTHOME Fall 2014 (Team of 3)

Embedded Software Programming

• Involved in building a centralized server to communicate in real time to various

Networked Systems

embedded devices such as Roomba,Android, Pebble, Raspberry pi, Arduino

Wireless Networking

WEATHER AND STOCK APP Fall 2014

Computer Vision

• Developed an app on Pebble which gives the current time and weather

UNDERGRADUATE according to your location and also gives information about your stocks

Microprocessor and Micro-controllers

RO-VR Penn Apps 2014 (Team of 3)

Computer Programming

• Designed a robot controlled by Myo gesture band which had integrated

Computer Communication Networking

webcams which hosted live video to the Oculus Rift.

Wireless Networks

PENN SEARCH Fall 2013 (Team of 4)

Image Processing

• Designed a peer to peer search engine using C++ in ns3 which is layered over

Penn chord, a distributed hash table (DHT) implementation based on chord.

Designed efficient routing by implementing link state and distance vector

routing protocol

LOGO DETECTION AND REPLACEMENT Fall 2013 (Team of 2)

• Used HOG feature descriptor for detection while the feature vector was

searched in the image based on Chi squared distance for the histograms

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