PRANAV SOOD

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Education
Masters in Electrical Engineering (M.S EE), Candidate for December 2013 Columbia University in the city of New York. Fall 2012 course work: MOS Transistors, Digital VLSI Circuits, Analog Electronic Design, Control Theory. Spring 2013 course work: Analog Systems in VLSI, Advanced Analog Intergrated Circuits, Advanced Digital Circuits, Communication Circuits. SRM University, Chennai, India. May 2012 Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech): Electronics and Communication Engineering. CGPA: 9.231/10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Visiting Student for 2010-2011 CGPA: 4.3/5 November 2012 Design and layout of an 8-bit Microprocessor Core operating at 200Mhz. Designed the microprocessor to perform operations such as addition, subtraction and shifting. Used the Cadence Virtuoso Environrment for schematic entry, functionality verification and layout. Columbia Integrated Systems Laboratory, Columbia University in the City of New York. September 2012-Present Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTS) Assembled and Tested the Low Power, Ultra Wide Band-Impulse Radio(UWB-IR) transceiver boards. Final Project for Microcomputer Project Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Dept, MIT. May 2011 Speech Controlled Robot Arm using the 8051 Microcontroller. Designed the circuit to implement speech recognition in hardware which was controlled by the 8051. Performed colour recognition using phototransistors. Integrated Systems Group, MIT, Cambridge February 2011 Update of testbeds for MEMS Chips & module synthesis using Cadence. Updated the Printed Circuit Boards used in testing MEMS chips Performed module synthesis and place and route using cadence tools such as RTL Compiler and Encounter. Autonomous Robot Design Competition, MIT. January 2011 Autonomous Robot used in performing assigned tasks. Designed and constructed a robot using LEGO parts. Programmed the robot in C language to operate autonomously and perfom tasks such as identifying and avoiding obstacles and gathering obejcts from a given area. Final Project for Digital Systems Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept, MIT. November 2010 Emulation of the Shazam Player on a Field Programmable Gate Array. Designed an algorithm to save, read and match audio files on an FPGA. Analyzed the various audio processing algorithms used in audio and speech recognition and implemented them using Verilog HDL. June 2011

Projects Final Project for Digital VLSI Circuits, Columbia University in the City of New York.

Internship LTE Project, Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon, India.

GSM & 4G LTE Base Station Emulators. Learned about the GSM and 4G LTE protocols. Tested scripts written in C++ used in these Base Station Emulators.

Achievements Granted Scholarship to study at MIT as a Visiting Student by SRM University, India. August 2010 Runners-up in MITs Autonomous Robot Design Competition. January 2011 Awarded the Best Robot Design in MITs Autonomous Robot Design Competition. January 2011 Skills Software Skills: Cadence design tools (Vituoso, Spectre, RTL Compiler, Encounter), Verilog, Assembly Language for
MCS-51 family of Microcontrollers, MATLAB, PSpice, PCB Design, C, Python, LaTeX, Photoshop. Operating Systems: LINUX, Windows, MAC OS X. Languages Known: English, Hindi and French. Others: Soldering and Architectural Drawing.