Anil Kandangath

Email: anilkumar@ieee.org , Web: http://www.ecogito.net

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a full-time position in the areas of digital signal processing and telecommunications systems.
EDUCATION

• Master of Science: Electrical Engineering        Graduation: Dec 2004    Arizona State University
  GPA: 3.74/4.0                                                
• B.Tech: Electrical and Electronics Engineering 1997-2001                     Calicut University, India
  Ranking: Honors

WORK EXPERIENCE

GPS ENGINEERING INTERN – Motorola GPS Products, Tempe, AZ. Jun 2004 – Aug 2004

• Performed competitive analysis on Motorola GPS receivers under development, legacy receivers and receivers from Motorola’s competitors.
• Analyzed existing test procedures, designed and implemented new procedures and created a framework for future competitive analysis that included procedures, setups, documentation and test tools.
• Developed new test utilities for competing products using C++ and modified existing utilities to incorporate new test standards from client.
• Created new test setups to ensure an unbiased comparison of receivers with different operating standards and analyzed Binary/NMEA data using MATLAB, C++ and Excel-VB.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT - Dr. Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University. Sept 2003 – Dec 2004

• Investigated anti-jamming methods for GPS receivers.

• Designed methods of inducing chaos in driven circuits in association with the Air Force Research Laboratory.
• Gained experience in working with circuits, scopes, data acquisition systems and LabView.

PROGRAMMER - Tech Based Learning & Research, Arizona State University. Sept 2002 - Sept 2003

• Developed tools for research and analysis in various projects using server based programming.
• Created software specifications, documented code and used a version control system (CVS).

TEAM LEADER - Mindgenes Consulting, India. Nov 2001 - Jun 2002

• Led an implementation team of 3 for various development projects.
• Integrated the statewide operations of a major pathological laboratory using custom web-based applications.

PROJECTS

Jamming mitigation in spread spectrum communication systems
Tools: MATLAB.

• Investigated and compared existing methods based on constraints such as cost, size and environment.
• Implemented an anti-jamming solution for use in spread spectrum communications such as GPS and CDMA.
• Time-frequency domain transform based on the Wigner distribution was used for jammer extraction.
• Bilinear signal synthesis method was used for signal reconstruction from the t-f domain.

Simulation of multipath fading channels with Rayleigh fading
Tools: MATLAB.

• Simulated multipath fading channels using the Jakes model and the Filtered Gaussian Noise model.
• Investigated the effect of channel estimation using pilot symbols and pilot duration over the BER.

Implementation of a Viterbi decoder
Tools: MATLAB.

• Implemented the Viterbi decoding algorithm for performance analysis over an AWGN channel.
• The encoder, AWGN channel and the decoder were simulated using MATLAB.

PROJECTS CONTD..

Design of a content based image search engine
Tools: MATLAB.

• Developed a self-learning image search engine  based primarily on Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
• Designed a way to improve existing text based search engines by build an understanding of image content.
• Technique correlates image features with textual queries and user responses as a learning process.

Linear Predictive Coding
Tools: MATLAB.

• Implemented the Linear Predictive Coding algorithm used in cellular phones.

Inducing Chaos in systems using the Duffing Oscillator
Tools: NI data acquisition system, LabView, MATLAB, FORTRAN, Unix shell scripting.

• Built the Young-Silva Chaotic Oscillator as an implementation of the Duffing equation.
• Added a LM 565 Phase Locked Loop (PLL) to drive the circuit based on the output frequency.
• Interfaced the circuit with a NI PXI module to acquire data and to control the driving signal.
• Wrote LabView VIs to control data acquisition, and to plot outputs for preliminary analysis.
• Analyzed data to investigate chaotic behavior using a combination of MATLAB and FORTRAN.

Verilog implementation of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Tools: Cadence Verilog XL.

• Led a team of 3 to simulate an expandable PDA using Cadence Verilog XL at the RTL and gate levels.
• Conceived and created the overall design involving a calculator, address book, scheduler and expansion slots.
• Wrote Verilog code for the scheduler module.

SKILLSET

Pspice, Cadence tools, Verilog	MATLAB, LabView, C/C++	ASP, PHP, Perl
Laboratory work	MySQL, MS SQL 2000	Visual Studio .Net

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

• Wireless Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Random Signal Theory, Digital Image Processing and Compression, Digital Communications, Signal Processing for Wireless Communications,  Digital Systems/Circuits, Verilog HDL

AWARDS

• Awarded Best Presentation at the Research in Engineering and Applied Sciences (REAS) Symposium, 2004 at ASU among all graduate students for research presentation “Inducing Chaos using Resonant Perturbations”.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

• Webmaster and Officer of the student branch of IEEE at ASU.

• Ranked 2^nd in the 2003 IEEE International student branch website competition for designing the ASU IEEE student branch site
• Actively participated in organizing workshops and industry seminars at ASU..