Sameer Desai
Email: sameerdesai@rediffmail.com

Objective
A full time position in the fields of ASIC/VLSI design, embedded design, digital/analog circuit design.

Education
M.S. Electrical Engineering (December 2002)
North Carolina State University, NC
GPA: 3.80/4.00

B.E. Electronics and Communications (June 2001)
L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, INDIA
GPA: 4.00/4.00

Computer skills
Languages: C, C++, VHDL, Verilog HDL, C#, Visual Basic .NET, Assembly (Intel & Motorola),
                  Visual Basic, JAVA, Shell, HTML, PHP, M (formerly MUMPS)
Design/Simulation Tools: MATLAB, Xilinix, Altera Max+Plus II, ORCAD, Sonnet, PSpice, Protel,
                                     Cadence IC Design Tool (including Synopsys, HSpice, Artist, Layout,
                                     AWaves, Spectre), MS Office, CVS
Computer Networks: TCP, IP, UDP, Ethernet, Token Ring, IPv6
Databases/Servers: MS Access, MySQL, Oracle 7.5/8i/9i, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Crystal
                              Enterprise Reporting, Teradata, Data warehousing
Operating Systems: Solaris, Linux, MS Windows-NT/95/98/2000/XP/2003/Advanced-2000, MacOS,
                              DOS, eCos

Professional Experience
Technical Services Engineer, EPIC Systems Corporation, Madison, WI (June `03 - Current)

• Primary duties include supporting and trouble shooting data warehouse feed process or ETL

• Leading a performance task force to improve extract process, network settings for transfer and best practices for loads in various database platforms as well as reporting through Crystal

• Developed timing analysis tool for performance monitoring, task controller, and XML parser for ETL configurations

Research Student, NC State University. Advisor: Dr. Rotenberg (Jan `02 - Dec `02)

• Carried on research in high performance computer architecture with a view to current CMOS scaling trends. Studied and implemented a variable depth pipeline for variable MHz processors for energy savings up to 44%. Published a paper on the obtained results (See below)

Intern/Research Assistant, Space Application Center (SAC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad, INDIA (Jun `00 - May `01)

• Simulated Communication system in MATLAB, designed and implemented the ˝ and 1/3 Convolutional CODEC using VHDL on an FPGA based system, implementing unique word detection synchronization

• Enhanced performance using Turbo En (De) coding and implementing the same in VHDL

• Used MATLAB, VHDL to simulate (de) coding and (de) modulation functions

Systems Programmer, Developer and Maintenance (Jun `98 - May `00)

• Designed GUI Admissions software for Alpha Science Academy where I worked as a Lecturer

Teaching Assistant for ‘C’, L.D. Engineering College, Ahmedabad, INDIA (Jun `00 - Dec `00)

Research Assistant, L.D. Engineering College, Ahmedabad, INDIA (Jan `99 - May `01)

• Wrote software for P2P communication between computers and provided specifications, tutorial and the source code to faculty and students. Also build various research equipments for departmental projects

• Involved in team for development of the Undergraduate department under project "Impact". Projects involved setting up network, maintenance of research equipments and network security

Tutor in Calculus, Solid Geometry, Statistics and Physics, Undergraduate Tutorial Center, NC State University (Sep `01 - Dec `02)

Lecturer/Tutor, Alpha Science Academy, Ahmedabad, INDIA (May `97 - May `01)

Projects
Computer Architecture

• Researched and developed efficient heuristics for instruction steering in complexity effective superscalar processors

• Implemented Pipeline in Alpha 21264 simulator

• Simulated and designed Dynamic Branch Scheduler, Branch Predictors and N-way set associative Cache

Analog Chip Design

• Led a 10 member team and designed and implemented 6 Bit Flash ADC with sparkle code correction encoder at 500 MS/s

Image Processing

• Developed algorithms and code for demosaicing sub sampled Bayesian pattern images

IPv6 Router Chip in ASIC

• Designed and Implemented pipelined IPv6 Router Forwarding Engine and DRAM interface
  with 40ns lookup time for each hop for based on algorithm developed by departmental
  research

4 bit slice Microprocessor in VLSI

• Lead a team to designed AMD 2901 microprocessor in TSMC 0.35µ CMOS

RS-232 Communications (Jan`01 - May `01)

• Developed software for transmitting packets over twisted line for P2P communication

• Developed tutorials and specifications; and imparted necessary training to faculty and the students

Computer interfaced multi-meter through Serial Port with Graphic view (Home Project)

• Developed software to calculate the value of unknown RLC value by reading frequency generated by a built oscillator board, through a serial port

Horizontal Oscillator and EHT section of TV (Jan`00 - May `00)

• Developed the testing, specifications and guidelines for undergraduate laboratory work. Provided proper packaging

Computer Programming

• Projects involved graphics programming, numerical computation for Physical computation, image compression algorithms
  

Leadership/Extra-curricular activities

• Participant and member of IEEE; member of Graduate Indian Students' Association; active participant in Undergraduate Student Government, participant in NC State International Office (OISSS) activities

• Extra curricular activities also include tennis, cricket, and soccer, playing guitar, flute, and harmonica, reading novels and computer graphics

Paper Publications

• J. Koppanalil, P. Ramrakhyani, S. Desai, A. Vaidyanathan, and E. Rotenberg. "A Case for Dynamic Pipeline Scaling". 2002 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES'02), October 2002

• A. Dutta, S. Desai, N. Pandya. "Advances in Picture Coding". Presented in National Symposium held at Watumull Institute of Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology (WIEECT), Mumbai

• The other presentations include that on "Clustered Microarchitecture", "Carbon Nanotubes" and "Turbo Codes"

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