HARSHA KALVANKAR
Research Assistant
Folsom, CA *5630
adbirx@r.postjobfree.com
Seeking an exciting, challenging opportunity to add value to your organization in hardware and analog IC design.
Research Assistant
Sungkyunkwan University
March 2016 to March 2016
Microwave Ultra band circuits and design
• Designed two 4-bit active Phase Shifters for X- and Ku- band (8-18 GHz) and K- band (18- 26 GHz) using Cadence Virtuoso involving complex calculations to Create Layout Cell view, Design Rule Checking, Layout Parameter Extraction and Layout vs. Schematic Comparison. for supply voltage, impedance matching and switching circuit.
• Developed IQ Vector Modulator and Quadrature All-Pass filter on Cadence.
• Single ended I/Q network based on low pass and high pass topologies.
• Differential quadrature all-pass filter.
• Analog differential adder with output impedance matching network. Trainee
Unitech Automation Pvt. Ltd
February 2015 to December 2015
RFID based security system with GPRS" project was developed for material/product tracking and receiving message of the material status. Used complex circuit design and complex calculations to determine transmission range.
COURSEWORK PROJECTS
Active Down conversion Mixer Design and Simulation
• Designed single-balanced mixer sensing RF inputs using Cadence Virtuoso which requires an overdrive voltage of 300mV for the input V/I converter transistor.
Camera Calibration and Pose Estimation using MATLAB, Python and OpenCV
• Implemented pose estimation of checkerboard images using OpenCV library in python
• Analyzed images for corner extraction and reprojection of errors to reduce distortion and improve accuracy. H
WORK EXPERIENCE
Arm Based Robot with Speech Recognition System, Hand Gesture and Camera Interfacing
• Developed and designed a portable 'module that can be mounted on the wheelchair' with microcontroller (ARM), accelerometer sensor, speech recognition circuit, GSM module and audio-video camera interfacing which interpreted human communication via
mathematical algorithm.
M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University
August 2018
B.S in Electronics and Telecommunications
Trinity College of Engineering
May 2014
CADENCE (Less than 1 year)
VIRTUOSO (Less than 1 year)
MATLAB (Less than 1 year)
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Cadence Virtuoso and ADE, Layout, HFSS: Parametric model creation
• MATLAB: Camera calibration and pose estimation, Lab view, 4nec2 software for wave antenna design
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