Neevan Ramalingam

3877 Creststone Pl, San Diego, CA-92130; neevan.snap@gmail.com; 515-203-5501.

Education

Iowa State University:: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Mathematics; Graduation: Fall 2011; GPA: 3.61 on 4, Advisor: Prof.Zhengdao Wang
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras:: B.Tech in Electrical Engineering; CGPA: 7.34 on 10; Graduation: Spring 2006

Qualcomm, Inc.: San Diego, CA.Staff Engineer: January 2012 - Present: Design and implement next generation wireless modems: 5G NR; Implement cycle efficient machine Learning and signal processing algorithms on Qualcomm's hexagon DSP; Primary architect on 4G LTE: IRAT and measurement features.; Primary architect on 3G TDSCDMA: IRAT and demfront features.; Design, implement, test, integrate, verify and provide customer support for many major features across 3 generations of wireless modems.; Work closely with hardware,software, RF and systems team to develop and implement efficient modem features.
Qualcomm, Inc.: San Diego, CA. Internship: January 2009 - July 2009: HS-DIO interface and application for WCDMA physical layer testing; Design a complete high speed digital interface for acquisition/streaming of baseband data from/to the modem; Implement drivers, FPGA/Modem scripts and solved clock synchronization issues.
Cambridge Silicon Radio: Bangalore, India. Internship: May 2005 - July 2005: Memory Optimization of layer one integrated WCDMA protocol stack for 3G devices; Optimizing the memory pool of the protocol stack and testing it in real time simulation.
HCL infosystems Noida, India. May 2004- June 2004: Design and Testing of broadband wireless networks (Wi-Fi, 802.11 Technologies).

Graduate Research: 2006 - present: Relay Channel: Analyze the rates achievable by superposition of decode-forward and compress-forward strategies for memoryless relay channel; Multi-user information theory: Develop new coding algorithms for general discrete memoryless networks with multicast using superposition and noisy network coding; Wireless Communication: Improving the achievable capacity of MIMO systems with channel state information.
Graduate Student Instructor: 2008-2011: Signals and systems: Instructor for lab course implementing signal and image processing tehniques in MATLAB; Teaching assistant for graduate courses on modern control systems and electric circuits
Communication and signal processing projects 2006-2007: Sum rate of OFDMA: Implementing OFDMA for MIMO systems over fading channels in Matlab; Space-time codes: Implementing optimal space-time codes for an N-relay co-operative channel.; Wireless Sensor Networks: Use of virtual MIMO channels to improve rates in co-operative multihop networks.
Undergraduate Research: 2005-2006: Dispersion Managed Solitons: Develop methods for solution of nonlinear schrodinger equations in fiber optics; Reduced State Sequence Estimation: Study and simulation of RSSE with set partitioning and decision feedback.

Journal Papers: N.Ramalingam and Z.Wang, "On the Rate Achievable for Gaussian Relay Channels Using Superposition Forwarding", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, October 2010 (Submitted).
Conference Papers: N.Ramalingam and Z.Wang, "Superposition Noisy Network Coding", In Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Info. Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 2011.; N.Ramalingam and Z.Wang, "MIMO Transmitter Optimization with Mean and Covariance Feedback for Low SNR", In proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, USA, 2008.

Graduate and Professional Student Senate at Iowa State University (2008–2009)
President (2008-09) and Treasurer (2007-08) of Cricket Club funded by GSB at Iowa State University
Received the National Talent Scholarship (NTSE), a national level competition in India