µSYC Key Past Members

Praween

Institute Ph.D Scholar (2019 - 2024)

Current Profession: Postdoctoral Researcher at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Thesis title: Modeling and design of improved planar spiral microstrip RF inductors and their applications

Praween has worked primarily on the design, development, and experimental verification of circuit models of improved planar RF inductors, topologies, and high directivity hybrid RF coupling structures.

Lopa

Institute Ph.D Scholar (2022 - 2024)

Current Profession: Engineer at OPTCL

Lopa has worked on the design and development of narrowband tunable RF filters.

Rachel

Summer Intern (2023)

Current Profession: UG Student at Government Engg College, Thrissur

Rachel has worked to develop a foundation for having an indigenous inductance calculator tool, that allows the user to select a PCB inductor configuration, and enter some desired geometrical parameters. The tool then extracts the electrical parameters of the inductor, useful for an RF designer!

Abhishikth

Undergraduate Student (2022 - 23)

Current Profession: Product Manager at ICICI Bank

Thesis title: Design of broadband digital phase shifters

Abhishikth has explored and investigated the design of broadband phase shifters to achieve near-flat 90- and 180-degree phase shift with minimum amplitude imbalance, primarily for the sub-6GHz frequencies.

Victor

M.Tech. Student (2021 - 22)

Current Profession: RF Software Engineer at Qualcomm

Thesis title: Improved bandwidth six port reflectometer using edge coupled microstrip couplers

Victor has worked on the design of six port reflectometers using loosely coupled sub-structures, and extending their performance to achieve broader measurement bandwidths with reasonable accuracy.

Jatin

Undergraduate Student (2020 - 21)

Current Profession: Applied Power Architect at NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Thesis title: Improved bandwidth higher order branch line hybrids

Jatin has worked extensively on the design of improved bandwidth four- and five-section branch line hybrids by tackling the classical problem of resulting high branch impedance values.  Thanks to him, we have the world's first fully microstrip five-branch high bandwidth hybrid!

Mamta

M.Tech. Student (2020 - 21)

Current Profession: Silicon Design Engineer II at AMD Inc.

Thesis title: Broadband tunable CMOS RF bandpass filter

Mamta has contibuted to the design of tunable RF CMOS bandpass filter having high Q and broad tuning bandwidth. Her design involves a modified active inductor-based on-chip tunable bandpass filter in 180nm technology for 1 to 4GHz.

Saurabh

M.Tech. Student (2019 - 20)

Current Profession: Testcase Development Engineer at Xilinx Inc.

Thesis title: Broadband CMOS RF power detector for sub-6GHz network analyzer testsets

Saurabh has contributed to the design of high dynamic range, broadband logarithmic RF power detectors on 180nm CMOS technology for sub-6GHz 5G applications. His designs work all the way from 300MHz to 5.4GHz!

Swapnil

Undergraduate Student (2023 - 24)

Current Profession:

Swapnil worked on the integration of developed planar RF inductor models into a single software tool that helps the user extract electrical parameters of their inductor geometry.