Resume Oct07

RAVI KIRAN MANAPURAM 4322 Leeland st., Apt 2, Houston, TX 77023, 281 236 3405; [email protected] OBJECTIVE:

Graduating electrical engineering student seeking a full-time or internship position to inculcate, integrate and implement all the innovative ideas to learn and work in a professional environment. Interested in the design and testing of optics based instruments. Willing to relocate; available December 2007.

EDUCATION:

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Houston, TX. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Expected Dec 2007 GPA: 3.03/4.0 Major GPA: 3.2/4.0 Master’s Thesis: Development of High-Speed Phase-Stabilized Low-Coherence Interferometer for Biomedical Applications. Courses: Modern Optics, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Stochastic Process, Advanced Micro Processors, Nano Scale Devices, Wireless Sensor Networks, Digital Communications and Networks, Networking Lab, Introduction to Electromagnetics. ANDHRA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AP, INDIA Bachelor of Technology in Instrumentation Technology May 2004 GPA: 73.3/100 Project: Fiber Optics Based Pressure Measuring Device. Courses: Optoelectronic devices and Lasers, Fiber Optic Sensors, Optical Instruments, Biomedical Instrumentation, Industrial Instruments, Process Control, Advanced Control systems, Digital Logic, Electrical Machines.

SOFTWARE SKILLS: Programming Languages: C, MATLAB, Lab View, Mathematica Operating System: Windows, Linux. TECHNICAL PROJECTS:  Development of High-Speed Phase-Stabilized Low-Coherence Interferometer for Biomedical Applications. In this project as my master’s thesis, a new Phase Sensitive Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography system that provides a unique diagnostic and experimental tool in biomedical applications was developed. I am the only student working on this project in our group. I used LabView for data acquisition, Origin, MATLAB and Mathematica for data analysis. I worked on this project over a period of ten months which included literature searching, ordering components, assembling, experimenting and analyzing data.

 Fiber Optics Based Pressure Measuring Device. In this undergraduate project, a pressure sensor based on the macro bend losses of the fiber was developed. I was part of a 3 member group and accomplished the task collectively over a period of 4 months including documentation. My major part was to develop the sensor: the mechanical design, effective use of fibers to get optimized result and calibration.

 Echo cancellation using MATLAB. In this Digital Signal Processing course project, a digital message that suffered from noise and multipath interference was recovered using filters in MATLAB.

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Data transmission in routers. Data networking course, RIP, OSPF, and BGP using Cisco routers, Linux PC’s and hubs were configured to observe the convergence times of RIP and OSPF and also observed problems such as Count to Infinity. The differences in bulk and interactive data transmission using TCP and UDP over fast and slow links were studied. Phenomena like delayed acknowledgements, piggybacked acknowledgements, slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit and fast recovery were observed.

EXPERIENCE:  Research Assistant in the field of Optical Coherence Tomography in the Biomedical Optics lab at the University of Houston.  Served as a tutor for math, physics and chemistry for undergraduate students at the University of Houston  Served as a teaching assistant in the University of Houston, Sept 2005-Sept 2006 for the course ECE4339: Physical Solid State Devices and the lab ECE4119: Photonics lab which includes testing of optical devices.  Visiting graduate student to the Biomedical Optics Lab at the University of Houston for Summer2005.  Research Assistant in the field of optical sensors at the University of Houston from Sept 2004 to May 2005.  Assistant Trainee in the field of sensors as a part of summer internship in the steel industry. AWARDS AND HONORS:  Published a paper in Asian Journal of Physics (Vol.15, pp 15-27, Jan 2006) on Identification of Artificial Finger Prints Using Optical Coherence Tomography Technique.  Co-authored a paper published in Optics Info Base (Conference paper, Dec 2005) on Optical Wireless Surveillance and Access Control Network.  Co-authored a paper published in Applied Optics (Vol.45, pp 9238-9245, 2006) on Artificial Finger Print Recognition Using Optical Coherence Tomography With Autocorrelation Analysis.  Presented a poster on Spectroscopic Decomposition of a Gas Mixture with Tunable Laser at a Graduate Research Conference conducted by the Department of ECE, University of Houston in May2006. EXTRACURRICULAR:  Student member of IEEE, SPIE, MAES.  Prepared a case study on Angular Measurement Using Electro-Optic Effect.  Placed 2nd in a national level tech debate in March 2003.  Chess Champion in the university level during my undergraduate studies. (References available on request)