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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Mixed Signal Solutions - Timing, East Coast Development Centre.

Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Mixed Signal Solutions - Timing Group.Worked on improving negative resistance of a pierce gate oscillator during startup, to support a wider range of crystals. Verified proof of concept, addressed any risks in the technique, and its impact on phase noise performance of the XO.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Teaching Assistant for ECE 115A, assisting Professor Asad Abidi.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to C++ (PIC 10A), Introduction to Laboratory and Scientific Methodology (LS23L). Lead discussion sessions and hold office hours for a group of 30 Sophomores and Freshmen.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built an on-chip 10 MHz (±1%) precision relaxation oscillator with external resistor component, and verification of its performance across PVT. Design done in 65 nm process node and Cadence Virtuoso.∗ Devised and implemented an ageing-robust frequency compensation technique with 0.1% theoretical drift across lifetime.∗ Implemented accurate leakage current.

Bangalore

• Ported board design and layout of C2000 micro-controller’s Integrated DesignDrive Kit to Altium Designer.
• Performed Silicon Validation for a Next-Gen Output Buffered 14bit Ultra-Low Power Digital-to-Analog Converter. Characterization of the performance related measurements such as ENOB, linearity, offset and gain error.
• Designed test flow and methodology and automated it using NI LabVIEW and NI TestStand.

Bangalore

• Wrote the Final Test program of the device DRV8304S for ETS-364 and performed ATE characterisation.
• Collaborated with applications team to reproduce a slow settling time problem in current sense amplifiers seen by customers.

Goa, India

Responsible for conducting weekly sessions of the Analog and Digital VLSI Laboratory, teaching and assisting students with Lab problems and assisting faculty with invigilation.

Goa, India

Guide: Professor Chembiyan ThambiduraiSimulation of in-band noise folding in fractional-N PLLs due to Charge-Pump Non-Linearity. Development of a novel Zero-Spur Offset technique that performs better than Constant-Current Offset and Reset-Delay Mismatch (in terms of reference spur), simpler in implementation and requires no PVT trimming.Investigated a wide.

Goa, India

Responsible for conducting weekly sessions of the Microelectronic Circuits Laboratory, teaching and assisting students with Lab problems and assisting faculty with invigilation.

Goa, India

Student Instructor for course on Reinforcement Learning

Goa, India

Guide: Professor Tirtharaj DashStudied the optimal architecture for Adversarial Neural Agents in asymmetric board games with imperfect information.Developed a Fuzzy-Granular Decision Tree, which gave a 20% increase in accuracy over existing work.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Guide: C KumaraveluWorked on the multivariate analysis for quality assessment of agro-food industry products using non- destructive Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy techniques.Developed a Signal Pre-processing toolbox in MATLAB, to correct measurement errors in NIR Spectral Data. Further implemented regression, support vector machine, K-means to characterise.

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering, 3.97/4.0

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 9.4/10.0