Experience

Research Intern, Qualcomm (Feb'22 - present)

Goal: Research on Machine Learning techniques and algorithmsfor the application/usecase of 5G and XR (eXtended Reality)
Internship part of the M2 (master's final year) thesis

Goal: Part of an open-source research community for the development of a voice-controlled neural network-based synthesizer for generating musical sounds
Named-entity Recognition (NER) of musical instruments and qualities using spaCy
Currently underway writing a research paper for a journal

Goal: Perform a study on GANs and research on artificial data generation
Contributed to YData's repository for small bug fixes
Published 2 articles regarding tabular and timeseries synthetic data generation on Towards Data Science

Literature Review and a detailed study about CHISEL language and multiplication based convolution
Proposed a modified approach for convolution incorporating parallelism

Performed a study of MIMO communication system; Implemented a basic model in MATLAB; made use of various signal processing techniques like Multi-path fading, block coding
Implemented Transmitter as well as Receiver, both incorporating various blocks like QPSK Modulator/ Demodulator, Filter, Ramanujan Phasor Estimation to name a few
Translated the model in Simulink and interfaced with USRP board (SDR, Software-Defined Radio based)
Studied about possible data encoding techniques like Arithmetic Coding, Huffman Coding; Antenna Switching and Spatial Modulation
Conducted a tutorial session on behalf of Prof. Vijay K. Chakka for introducing MIMO to a junior undergrad batch

Learnt about Hardware Trojan (HWT); Reported extensive literature review; Implemented a metric for finding out number of HWT trigger attacks in order of millions using C++ and MATLAB
Optimized trigger calculation and reduced computation time in the order of days to minutes
Met Specific deadlines for finalizing two scientific papers; "demonstrated to have above-average software engineering skills, rigor, scientific curiosity, perseverance and demonstrated important human relation skills", as mentioned by the supervisor
Contributed to 2 research papers for publishing in an international conference

Goal: Understand the basics of a GPS system and implement a smaller version of signal phase and frequency locker; End of 2nd year bachelor’s internship
Reported a background study on GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) technology
Implemented part of GPS receiver in MATLAB & improved an algorithm for error calculation.

Goal: Learn the basics and programming of a microcontroller, Object Oriented Programming for Java and Android; Industrial summer trainee at the end of 1st year of bachelor’s
Designed and implemented an Android app; Established a wired connection between the app and microcontroller for data transfer; Textual and graphical display of data on the app