PRASANNA VENKATESH ARIYAKULAM SUDARSANAM 805-637-7865/asprasannavenkatesh@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE :

To obtain a full time position which will provide me a good opportunity to collaborate with the best brains of the Engineering

domain and expound new path breaking technologies.

EXPERIENCE :

SENIOR FIRMWARE ENGINEER, DATA CENTER PRODUCT DEPLOYMENT, WESTERN DIGITAL, IRVINE, CA FEB 2014 – PRESENT

• Senior Firmware Engineer involved in the coding and development of Embedded Firmware for Hard drives for Data

Center related products and SATA drives and Personal Cloud Storage Solutions.

• Currently working on coding disk drive firmware using C++ for SATA drives & developing new features for new products.

• Writing PERL test scripts and running test scripts and combos, root causing failures and doing the required firmware

fixes, validating changes and using version control for code maintenance.

INTERIM ENGINEERING INTERN IN MULTIMEDIA R&D TEAM AT QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INC, SAN DIEGO,CA SUMMER 2013

• Worked on designing and developing the Fingertip detection and tracking android application and an application to

take picture of the object pointed by that finger and displaying the data associated with that object

• Also worked on a designing a background tracking android application that can track any arbitrary background and

augment an object on top of the tracked background.

SUMMER INTERN AT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS MAY-JULY 2011

• Carried out experiments on condition monitoring of high voltage transformers under transient voltages

• Applied signal processing techniques to the acoustic signals obtained by mounting acoustic sensors on the equipment

• Classified the various types of partial discharge based on frequency domain responses and ternary plot

TECHNICAL SKILL SET :

Programming Languages : C, C++, Java

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux

Scripting Languages : PERL, Python

Software Skills : MATLAB, JAWS, Trace Decoder, Verilog, VHDL, Firmware Drivers, Vuforia SDK, HD

Tune Pro and other performance benchmarking tools, UART/JTAG Debuggers, Eclipse

IDE and Android SDK and NDK, Open CV, Open GL Basics.

Hardware : DSP Processor MSP 430, TIc6X DSP, XGIG Bus Analyzer, Arium Sourcepoint

Emulator, Spectrum Analyzer, CRO, UART/JTAG Debuggers, SATA/SAS drives.

EDUCATION :

MASTERS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (Communications, Control and Signal Processing) – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA

BARBARA SEP 2012 - DEC 2013

• RELEVANT COURSES - Stochastic Processes in Engineering, Information theory , Mobile Embedded Systems, Advanced

Topics in Wireless Communications, Multimedia Systems, Error Correcting Codes, Matrix Analysis and Computations,

Computer Networks and Computer Arithmetic GPA 3.81/4

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (B.E.) IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING – SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,

ANNA UNIVERSITY, INDIA AUG 2008 –JUN 2012

• COURSES: Wireless communication, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Electronics, Probability and Random Processes,

Computer Networks, High Speed Networks, Digital Communication, VLSI design, Microprocessor and Microcontroller,

Data Structures and OOPs. GPA 8.7/10 WITH DISTINCTION

PUBLICATIONS :

“Understanding of partial discharge activity in transformer oil under transient voltages adopting acoustic emission technique”

in the 6th

International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2011)(conducted by IEEE) held at the University

of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS :

RESEARCH AND INDIVIDUAL STUDY PROJECT (UNDER PROF. DR. TIM CHENG) SPRING 2013

DEVELOPMENT OF EVALUATION FLOW OF MOBILE OBJECT TRACKING (C AND JAVA FOR ANDROID)

• Carried out mobile object tracking based on vision based algorithms in OpenCV by using colored markers.

• Carried out mobile object tracking using Qualcomm markers and Vuforia SDK and compared the two for tracking.

• Generated ground truth for the tracking results by keeping 4 markers around the object and tracked them.

ANDROID APP FOR DATA SHARING VIA WI-FI DIRECT (Under Prof. Dr. Tim Cheng) – (C AND JAVA) FEB 2013 - MAR 2013

• An application to set up device to device communication through Wi-Fi Direct.

• Share data and do video streaming between two devices and controlling one device using another android device

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF LINEAR AND NON LINEAR TRANSMITTER PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES IN CDMA SYSTEMS

(UNDER PROF. DR. YASAMIN MOSTOFI) WINTER 2013

• Comprehensive comparative analysis of various Transmitter Preprocessing Techniques in C and MATLAB.

• Analyzed Linear Preprocessing Techniques like Zero Forcing and Minimum Mean Squared Error.

• Non Linear Preprocessing techniques like SVD and Tomlinson Harashima Precoding

• Extension of these techniques to Successive Optimization (SO) technique

PERFORMANCE OF ADAPTIVE SWITCHING AIDED MIMO-OFDM SYSTEM WITH BIT LOADING (C and MATLAB) JUN 2011 –APR2012

• Implemented adaptive strategies like Adaptive Modulation and Coding and adaptive bit loading in MIMO-OFDM systems

• Estimated the Channel state information and modified the transmission scheme adaptively to improve performance

• Designed a system to switch between Space time coding and Spatial Multiplexing depending on Signal to noise ratio

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SPACE TIME DIVERSITY IN MIMO SYSTEMS (C and MATLAB) JULY 2011–SEP 2011

• Analyzed the performance of Space time codes for various antenna profiles in MIMO Systems.

• Analysis of Alamouti code and Space Time Block codes.

UNDERSTANDING OF PARTIAL DISCHARGE ACTIVITY IN TRANSFORMER OIL UNDER TRANSIENT VOLTAGES ADOPTING

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TECHNIQUE (C and MATLAB) MAY 2011 – JULY 2011

• Applied signal processing techniques to the acoustic signals obtained by mounting acoustic sensors on the transformer

• Classified the various types of partial discharge based on frequency domain responses and ternary plot

• Under Professor Dr.Ramanujam Sarathi at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)

ANDROID APP USING 3D TEXTURE MAPPING AND RENDERING GRAPHICS USING OPEN GL (JAVA)

• Created 3D cube using Open GL and texture mapped the faces of the dice on the 3D cube to simulate a dice

• Implemented an app for rolling a dice to get random outcomes.

ANDROID APP FOR FACE DETECTION USING ANDROID NDK AND OPEN CV (JAVA)

• Implemented a customized Camera interface and also Augmented Graphics to the images captured.

• Face Detection using OpenCV Library and overlaid a mask over the detected face.

4-20 mA TRANSMITTER FOR A BRIDGE TYPE TRANSDUCER – Electronic circuit design OCT 2011

• A Bridge transducer employing Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) was used.

• An instrumentation amplifier stage and a voltage to current converter was designed using op-amp.

• Variation of output current with light intensity was studied.

AWARDS WON :

• Silver merit certificate for the distinctive performance in 4th

National Cyber Olympiad conducted by Science Olympiad

Foundation.

• Chairman’s Medal for securing overall 44th

Rank among 9000 students in the ECE department of Anna University, INDIA

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES :

• Event coordinator of the Circuit Debugging event “Circuitrix” event in the department’s National level technical

symposium “ORBITCE 2K11”.

• Have actively participated in social welfare activities. I have been awarded with the life saver certificate for the

successful completion of the training on Basic Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness and also for training in Basic Life

Support and First Aid Skills by Usha Fire Safety Equipments (P) Ltd., an ISO certified institution.

• Member of University of California Santa Barbara’s Acapella Team Ravaani (Music Band).

VISA STATUS: H1B VISA HOLDER Effective from 1st

October, 2015 (H1B already APPROVED). Currently on Optional

Practical Training (F-1 Student VISA)