Role description: Working on assessing various aspects of navigation using LEO satellites.
Role description: Developing a GNSS high accuracy corrections service that would enable sub-meter level user position accuracy required for a variety of use cases (e.g. automotive, robotics, IoT, and other mass-market applications).
Role description: Developing a location-based assistance service software that would improve user position accuracy in a variety of use cases (e.g. automotive, IoT, robotics)
Role description: Perform independent research on GNSS antenna array processing and GNSS weak signal processing, collaborative research with other senior research associates and coordinate/assist grad students in the Navigation lab.
Role description: Perform independent research on distortion analysis in array processing and space-time processing (STP) for GNSS interference, Assist senior research associates in their research and laboratory activities.
Role description: Responsible for being an interface between the family housing office and residents of the community, being proactive in organizing activities that bring the community closer, learning opportunities for the community members.
June 2012- March 2013: Project Leader - GNSS Technology and Aerospace Engineering, Accord Software & Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, India
(Role description: Involve in GNSS receiver R&D and engineering (firmware and hardware) targeted to avionics and aerospace segment, Lead a team of 4-8 engineers in achieving project goals, project planning, management and execution, Fresh engineer training.)
April 2011- May 2012: Project Leader - GNSS Technology and Embedded Systems, Accord Software & Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, India
(Role description: Involve in GNSS receiver R&D and engineering (firmware and hardware) aimed at automotive product market, Lead a team of 2-6 engineers in achieving project goals, project planning, management and execution.)
January 2008- March 2011: Senior Systems Engineer, Accord Software & Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, India
(Role description: RF front-end design and evaluation, PCB and hardware design, Base-band processing on Xilinx FPGAs using VHDL programming, Assembly and C programming for Analog Devices DSPs (e.g. SHARC, Blackfin), Generating design documents and test plans)
July 2005- December 2007: Systems Engineer, Accord Software & Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, India
(Role description: Testing GNSS hardware for environmental tests (vibration/temperature/pressure/humidity), software integration and testing, Generating user documents and test reports.)
Involved in research on the Space-Time Processing (STP) methods (for signals from an antenna array), as applied to GNSS signals.
The major contributions are towards:
Satellite orbit, satellite clock, ionosphere & troposphere correction generation,
Field/lab experiments using in-house/third-party tools, positioning clients and hardware receivers,
PPP and RTK functionality evaluation and performance assessment using statistical methods.
Involved in signal processing and embedded system design for 7 years and 9 months at Accord Software and Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru.
The major contributions during this period are given below.
Lead a team of engineers in achieving the project goals
Manage project planning and execution
Member of recruitment team (technical)
Induction training to fresh batch of engineers (on SHARC processors and Hardware design)
GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver R&D for automotive and airborne applications
One among the six-member team which developed first GLONASS receiver at Accord
1 PPS accuracy improvement in GLONASS only mode of operation of the GPS-GLONASS receivers
Integrating the GPS and GLONASS measurements to compute position
Integrated GPS/GLONASS/Pseudolite receiver design
Development and implementation of acquisition and tracking algorithms
Base-band processor development for Fast TTFF GPS-GLONASS receiver
Hardware design for high dynamics and for small form-factor GNSS receivers