Aditi Vedantam - University of Southern California
Aditi Vedantam - University of Southern California
Aditi Vedantam - University of Southern California
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<strong>Aditi</strong> <strong>Vedantam</strong><br />
2632, Ellendale Place, Apt 110, Los Angeles, CA-90007 (919-607-6920)<br />
E-mail: aditi.vedantam@gmail.com<br />
Graduate Electrical Engineer<br />
Focus Areas:<br />
Embedded Systems, Control Systems and Robotics, Image Processing and Data Acquisition Systems.<br />
Experience:<br />
Industrial Automation and Drive technology Intern, Siemens, Mumbai, India May 2010 – July 2010<br />
Intern in the Industrial automation and Drive Technology team.<br />
Study and testing <strong>of</strong> Siemens Drives in the M3 segment (V60 and S120)<br />
Study and testing <strong>of</strong> Siemens controllers (Simotion D)<br />
Project Intern, Tata Institute <strong>of</strong> Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India July 2008 – June 2009<br />
Simulated a Data Acquisition System for the Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source Machine<br />
System implementation using the MCB2300 emulator board with ARM7 microcontroller and Keil<br />
Microvision IDE.<br />
System programming in C and front end designing in LabView.<br />
Undergraduate Intern, Seto Teknolog Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, India June 2007 – July 2007<br />
Trained in departments <strong>of</strong> Assembly, Wiring and Testing <strong>of</strong> production <strong>of</strong> industrial automated<br />
products.<br />
Overview and introduction to design and development <strong>of</strong> automated systems.<br />
Student Operator, Network Operations Center, USC, Los Angeles, CA Sept 2010 – Present<br />
Responsible for monitoring various network points on and <strong>of</strong>f-campus belonging to USC using<br />
multiple monitoring tools.<br />
Also provide customer support for all USC - supported online portals as well as Los Nettos and<br />
other Colocation customers.<br />
Education:<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>California</strong>, Los Angeles, CA, Aug 2009 - May 2011<br />
Master <strong>of</strong> Science, Electrical Engineering<br />
Significant Courses Taken:<br />
Game Hardware Architecture Sensing and Planning in Robotics Digital Control Systems<br />
Digital Image Processing Introduction to Programming Systems Robotics<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Mumbai: Ramrao Adik Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology, Mumbai, India Aug 2005 - July 2009<br />
Bachelor in Electronics Engineering<br />
Significant Courses Taken:<br />
Control Systems Engineering C and C++ Programming Computer Organization<br />
Filter Theory and Application Introduction to Robotics Discrete Time Signal Processing<br />
Digital Design I and II Image Processing Microwave and Fiber Optic<br />
Communication
<strong>Aditi</strong> <strong>Vedantam</strong><br />
2632, Ellendale Place, Apt 110, Los Angeles, CA-90007 (919-607-6920)<br />
E-mail: aditi.vedantam@gmail.com<br />
Technical Skills:<br />
Languages : C, C++, Embedded C, Embedded C++, MATLAB, LabView, Simulink, OpenMP, CUDA,<br />
HTML.<br />
Hardware : Microprocessor 8085/86, Microcontroller 8051, Emulator LPC 2378.<br />
Platforms : Windows, Linux, Macintosh.<br />
IDEs : Micros<strong>of</strong>t Visual Studio, Keil Microvision, Visual C++, GNU, Turbo C++<br />
Projects:<br />
Implementing Image Processing techniques – Fall 2010<br />
Image Manipulation, Image Enhancement, Noise Removal<br />
Edge Detection, Morphological Processing, and Digital Halftoning<br />
Geometric Modifications, Texture Analysis and Segmentation, and Optical Character<br />
Recognition<br />
Building a Supercomputer – Spring 2010<br />
Combining computation abilities <strong>of</strong> a CPU and two GPUs (GeForce 8000 and Tesla)<br />
Implementing basic graphic algorithms with CUDA programming to examine performance<br />
enhancement on supercomputer<br />
Particle Filtering for Robot Localization – Fall 2009<br />
Simulated position tracking for robot and audio source for audio-localized robot.<br />
Implemented using LabView and Bayesian particle filtering for belief map updates.<br />
Line Tracker Robot – Fall 2008<br />
Implementation <strong>of</strong> embedded systems project on line tracker robot using assembly level<br />
language on an AT89S52 microcontroller chip<br />
Display screens using Seven-Segment Displays – Spring 2008<br />
Interfacing a 8051 Microcontroller with seven-segment displays for use in various applications<br />
such as railways stations and marquees<br />
Microprocessor-based Car Parking Slot Indicator – Fall 2007<br />
Interfacing an 8085 microprocessor with peripheral input/output device (8255) and sevensegment<br />
display. Input is taken in the form <strong>of</strong> switch outputs.<br />
Extracurricular Activities:<br />
Participant and frequent winner, IEEE-Mumbai Robotics Competitions<br />
Event Head at various IEEE technical festivals, cultural and athletic college festivals<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> Core Organizing Committee for the All- India Twenty 20 tournament.<br />
Editor <strong>of</strong> college technical and general magazines (2008-09)<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> Student Careers Committee (2007-09)<br />
National-level badminton player and state-level basketball player<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>icient orator with numerous wins at various debates and elocution
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