OBJECTIVE
Seeking an Internship in a system design team for Summer 2008.
EDUCATION
Sep 2007 – Current : University of Washington
Candidate for M.S in Electrical Engineering, Fall 2009
Specialization: VLSI
Jun 2003 - Jun 2007 : St. Joseph’s College of Engineering (Affiliated to Anna University), Chennai Bachelor of Engineering degree, June 2007
Specialization: Electronics & Communications Engineering
WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Autumn ‘07: ACME LAB – Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Washington
Research
Position - Image Compression on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays
I work on a team that develops
applications on reconfigurable computing platforms. Currently working to
implement an H.264 encoder on the Ambric Processor Array
Autumn 2007: Department of Computer Science, University of Washington
Teaching assistant, CSE370 Introduction to Digital Design
Mar 2006-June 2007: Digital Processing Lab at IIT, Chennai
Research
assistant – FPGA Implementations
I worked on a
camera interface application that took analog composite video and set it up for
digital video compression on FPGA. Also worked on a Video compression project.
Jan 2006: DSP Learning Center (Analog Devices Inc. & IIT), Chennai
Worked on Digital Signal Processors and Applications
Nov 2005-Dec 2005: St. Joseph’s College, Chennai (Under Asst. Prof. J.Martin Leo)
Research assistant, Security Considerations of the AODV Protocol for use in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
June 2004: Airports Authority of India- Air Traffic Services (ATS), Chennai
Participated in the in-plant training program that gives an overview of the various ATS technologies.
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND HONORS
MERIT SCHOLARSHIP awarded by Jeppiar Educational Trust
- 2004: Received the scholarship for academic distinction in Semesters I and II
- 2005: Received the scholarship for academic distinction in Semesters III and IV
- 2006: Received the scholarship for academic distinction in Semesters V and VI
Best Project Award
– 2007: Received best B.Tech Project award in St. Joseph’s College of Engineering
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
College
Organizing committee of Physics, Mathematics, and Electronics Symposium, Editor of ECE department magazine. Design team of department website. Won several awards in national level inter-collegiate competitions in JAM, drama, elocution, and debate. Directed 3 plays for the Chettinad Players theater group.
High School: School captain, editor of student newsletter, dramatics, elocution, debating, two-time recipient of the ‘All-Rounder of the Year’ award.
SKILLS
Excellent written and oral communication, fast learner, strong problem solving and analytical ability