ANKUR SHRIVASTAVA, *** Englewood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14214,
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EDUCATION
• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering, Expected Jun 2011
GPA 3.96/4.0
• University Institute of Technology-Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, June 2009
GPA 3.1/4.0
EXPERIENCE
RuffaloCODY, University at Buffalo Call Center, SUNY at UB
Student Fundraiser February 2011-present
• Recently hired as a Student Fundraiser
• Responsible for calling Alumni providing updates and fundraising.
Centre for Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), SUNY at UB.
Senior Research Aide, Mail Piece Truthing Aug 2010-January 2011
• Worked as a truther to evaluate mail pieces against the address recognition software
• Projects from USPS and Lockheed Martin
Centre for Research and Industrial Staff Performance (CRISP), Bhopal, India.
Intern, Embedded Systems Design, June-July 2008
• Programmed a 16 bit Microcontroller kit in assembly language and C on Codewarrior IDE
• Included interfacing of microcontroller with Stepper motors, DC motors and keypad etc
PROJECTS
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
UBTorrent protocol, Oct 2010 - present
• Simplified implementation of P2P BitTorrent protocol in C under UNIX
• Shares files using TCP connection, implements Rarest First and Optimistic Unchoke algorithms
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
CDMA Receivers and Signature designs, Jan-Apr 2010
• Designed High performance Adaptive filter receivers like Auxiliary Vectors, RAKE, Non linear filters
• Simulated minimum TSC binary signatures, and adaptive signature designs.
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Differential Space Time Coding in MIMO architecture, Apr 2010
• Implemented a Non coherent scheme of detection using Cyclic Space Time Block codes
• Performed analysis of above scheme in Simulation, on MATLAB.
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Cognitive Radio, Mar-Apr 2010
• Efficient utilization of occupied frequency spectrum in absence of licensed user
• Examined a new concept of Cooperative Sensing in Simulation, on MATLAB
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Smart Antenna Beamforming, Mar-Apr 2010
• Created beamformers like zero forcing, MMSE, MVDR,MF, ML,RLS, LMS etc
• Estimated angle of arrival using MF and MVDR techniques, Space Time processing of CDMA signal in an array.
TECHNICAL SKILL SET
• C/C++ , Assembly language , OOPs, MATLAB, LTSpice, HFSS
• Microcontroller kit programming using Codewarrior IDE
• PCB designing in PCB Express and related works like soldering, troubleshooting etc
• Windows XP/Vista, MS Office 2007
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Modern Networking concepts, Operating Systems, Microprocessors and Interfacing, Analog and Digital Circuits, Communication Electronics, RF/Microwave Engineering, Data Communications, Information theory and coding.