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Resume - Affan, Syed.

Education:

Masters of Science Electrical Engineering (May 2004)

University of Southern California

C.G.P.A: 3.97

Relevant Courses (EE 599 Wireless Sensor Networks, CS 694a Adv. topics in networking and distributed systems, EE 555 Broadband Networks, EE 550 Design & Analysis of computer comm. Networks, CS 571 Web Programming Languages, CS 551 Computer communications)

Honors: Awarded the prestigious TROSS scholarship, by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan.

Bachelor of Engineering (with Honors) 1998-2001

National University Of Science And Technology (Pakistan)

C.G.P.A: 3.86 (Ranked 3rd in Graduating Electrical Engineering Class)

Honors: Dean’s list and merit scholarship throughout undergraduate studies for 4 years.

Undergraduate Papers:

  1. • Waheed Uz Zaman, Syed Affan Ahmed et.al "Mobile IP based Mobility Based Management for 3G Networks", symposium proceedings of International Symposium on Wireless Systems and Networks (ISWSN’03) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, March 24-26, 2003.
  2. • Waheed Uz Zaman, Syed Affan Ahmed et.al,."Modeling Of Processor Delay And Overall Reduction In Network Latencies For Real Time, Interactive Applications", IEEE Student Conference (ISCON), pp. 76-79, Lahore, Pakistan, August, 2002.
  3. • Adeel Abbas, Affan Ahmed "Object Oriented Parallel Processing", In proceedings of IEEE Student Conference (ISCON), pp. 89-93, Lahore, Pakistan, August, 2002.
  4. • Adeel Abbas, Arslan Ahmed, Affan Ahmed et.al, "A Retargetable Tool Suite For The Design of Application Specific Instruction Set Processors Using a Machine Description Language", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2002, Vol. 1 pp. 425-428, Phoenix, USA, May 2002
  5. • Affan Ahmed, Adeel Abbas "BPDL - Processor definition language with support for cycle accurate DSP architectures"1, 5th IEEE International Multi-Topic Conference, pp. 200-204, Lahore, Pakistan, Dec. 2001. (Best Student Paper)

Skills:

Programming Languages: C/C++, nesC, Java, Java-Script, CSS, PHP, JSP, mySql, HTML, XML , Perl, Verilog, tcl/otcl.

Platforms: TinyOS, Windows 95/NT/98/2000, Linux, Unix (Sun Solaris).

Applications: TOSSIM, Visual C++ / MFC, K-Develop, MS-Office, ns-2.

Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat.

Industry Experience:

Summer Internship at Sensicast Systems (Needham, MA) May 2004 to August 2004

• Performed in depth analysis of the existing commercial wireless sensor networking platforms, to ascertain suitability for diverse applications. This involved devising and performing tests that exposed the strengths and weaknesses, both technical and commercial, of each platform.

Design Engineer for Avaz Networks (Corp HQ, Irvine, CA) May 2001 to December 2002

• Designed and implemented Point to Point Protocol (PPP) using C and Linux as platform.

• SIP proxy resolution using NAPTR and SRV Records. RAS, VPN, NAT and firewall setup in a Linux box for a soft router solution.

Educational Experience:

University Projects:

• Simulation of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN): WSN Simulation with CSMA at MAC layer, One Phase Pull at network layer. (CS 551)

• WSN Project: Modeling of spatial properties in sensor networks & demonstrating their efficacy in applications such as sensor calibration and node localization. (EE 599)

• Edge Tracking in WSN: Implementing an edge tracking application on the TinyOS/Mica2 platform with simulation in TOSSIM. (CS694a)

• E-commerce Site: Design and development of a complete e-commerce site using HTML, JavaScript, Perl/PHP with mySql database. (CS 571)

• Network Queue Simulator: Simulated Markovian queues to study the effects of queuing, feedback and congestion. (EE 465)

Undergrad Projects:

• MobileIP implementation on a Linux platform with a Qt based front-end.

• Token ring based LAN, designing our own hardware NIC and implementing the protocols.

Leadership/Organizations:

College House Captain: Coordinated social events and maintained general discipline of my house.

Pakistani Trojan Website: Development and maintenance of a Pakistani community website (www.pakistanitrojans.com ).