Sneha Latha Kottapalli - Clemson University

Summary
Sneha Latha Kottapalli
220 ELM ST #422 Clemson SC 29631
(404) 547-5749 • skottap@clemson.edu • http://myweb.clemson.edu/∼skottap
• Seeking a full-time position in design, development and testing of wireless communication systems & networks.
• Research experience in physical layer design of mobile packet-radio networks, OFDM, and white space detection
for cognitive radios.
• Rigorous coursework and projects in Digital Modulation and Coding, Channel Access Protocols, Signal Processing,
Estimation & Detection, Fading channels, OFDM, and Spread Spectrum techniques.
• Knowledge of wireless technologies and standards such as CDMA, GSM, WiFi, WiMAX, and 3GPP LTE.
• Excellent problem-solving, coding and FPGA programming skills. Strong written and oral communication skills.
Education
Clemson University Clemson, SC, U.S.A. Aug’12
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering • GPA: 4.0/4.0
National Institute Of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India May’09
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering • GPA: 8.32/10.0
Skills
Languages/Applications: (Strong) C · MATLAB · VHDL (familiar with)· Bash scripting · Perl · OPNET
Operating systems: Linux · Windows
Work Experience
Center for Research in Wireless Communications, Clemson University Summer’11-Now
Graduate Research Assistant
• Designing adaptive modulation & coding protocols for mobile packet-radio networks in fading channels.(Masters’
thesis)
• Advisor: Michael B. Pursley
• Languages: C, MATLAB, Bash scripting, Perl.
Center for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Bangalore, India Dec’09-Jul’10
Research Scientist
• Designed layer-2 HDLC protocol transmitter and receiver in VHDL at the register-transfer level (RTL).
Synthesized and simulated using Quartus-II software and Modelsim. Implemented on Altera Cyclone-II FPGA.
• Language used: VHDL.
Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore, India May’09-Nov’09
Project Assistant
• Investigated OFDM channel estimation and feedback in channels that are sparse in the time-domain.
• Investigated white space detection for dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radios. Work published in ICC’11.
• Language used: MATLAB.
Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India Summer’08
Intern
• Investigated acoustic-phonetic segmentation as an alternate method for speech recognition.
• Languages used: MATLAB, Perl.
Publications
Y. R. Venugopalakrishna, C. R. Murthy, D. N. Dutt, and S.L. Kottapalli, Multiple transmitter localization and
communication footprint identification using sparse reconstruction techniques, Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Communications (ICC), Tokyo, Japan, June 2011.
Honors
Projects
• Awarded the NSF travel grant to attend Grace Hopper Conference, Portland, USA, Nov 2011.
• Awarded Graduate Teaching Assistantship by Clemson University for Fall’10-Spring’12.
• Selected to attend Grad Cohort Workshop, Boston, MA, April 2011.
Spectrum sensing of modulated signals Fall’11
• Designed a detector (based on a combination of Generalized Likelihood Ratio test and Bayesian approach) to
detect the presence of M-ary PSK modulated signal in an AWGN and a Rayleigh fading channel.
• Probability of detection and false alarm were determined for both the channels.
Monte-Carlo simulation of convolutional codes Spring’11
• Implemented hard-decision, soft-decision Viterbi decoder, and BCJR algorithm based decoder in MATLAB.
• Simulated performance of Maximum-likelihood and MAP decoders, 8-PSK Trellis-coded modulation system in
MATLAB.
Viterbi encoder and decoder on FPGA Fall’07
• Implemented on Xilinx SPARTAN 2E FPGA.
• Designed in VHDL and synthesized using the EDA tool – Xilinx foundation series v8.2i ISE.

• Tested extensively using ModelSim SE 6.2g simulator for pre-synthesis and post-synthesis simulations.
Monte-Carlo simulation of Hamming codes Spring’12
• Implemented a systematic (7,4) Hamming encoder. Implemented the minimum-distance hard-decision decoder and
the maximum-likelihood soft-decision decoder in MATLAB.
• Simulated and compared the performance of the two decoders.
Multi-hop Ad hoc Network Spring’12
• Configured single-hop and multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc networks.
• Implemented multi-hop routing using Optimized Link State Routing Protocol and tested using ping packets.
Switched LANs Spring’12
• Simulated different Ethernet LAN configurations using switches and hubs in OPNET
• Evaluated the performance of the configurations based on Traffic Received, Delay and Collision count with time.
Video compression Fall’08
• Implemented intra-frame coding for a H.264 encoder in C.
ROBDD generation Spring’09
• Built an efficient generator of Reduced Ordered Boolean Decision Diagram (ROBDD), a data structure used in
logic synthesis to represent a Boolean function. Language used: C.
Relevant Coursework
Graduate: Information Theory & Coding · Random Processes · Advanced Coding Theory · Digital Communications ·
Telecom Networks · Advanced Calculus · Detection & Estimation Theory.
Undergraduate: Computer Networks · Analog Communications · Digital Signal Processing · Digital Signal Compression
· Digital System Design · Programming in C · Data Structures & Algorithms · Computer Organization & Architecture.
Activities
• Member
• IEEE • Robotics club at NITK • SPIC MACAY, NITK chapter • Association for India’s Development, Clemson
Chapter