Vasanth Krishna Namasivayam                                                                                (213) 741-1186

                                                                                                                                                                            namasiva@usc.edu                                                                                                                             1039 W 23 St, Apt # 204, Los Angeles – 90007

Objective         To obtain an internship that could develop into a full time position in Electrical Engineering

Education        M.S. Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering                Expected Graduation Dec 2005             

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA                                                            GPA: 3.6 / 4.0

                                B.E. Electronics & Communications Engineering                                                                  June 2003

                                Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India                   First Class with Distinction

Projects          Graduate

·         Performance profiling of Xilinx Microblaze(in progress)

·         Analysis of embedded systems that use reconfigurable computing (in progress)

·         Presented seminars on the ISA and memory architectures of embedded processors Altera Nios 2 and Sun Niagara 

·         Implemented random restart hill climbing algorithm for n queen chess problem in C++

·         Implemented a Bayesian network in Genie and used queries to deduce probability distributions

·         Implemented the tic-tac-toe game in Electronic Product Designer

·         Prepared an ontology for semantic web and made intelligent inferences

·         Designed and simulated a 32 bit pipelined MIPS processor in ePD

·         Designed a traditional memory interface for 80486 microprocessor

                                Undergraduate

·         Designed and simulated an eight channel UART in Active HDL

·         Center for Department for Telecommunications, India

·         Implemented a low cost audio video modulator and transmitter

·         Implemented a bus terminal display and tracking system

Experience

·         Grader and Special Course Assistant – System Design Using Microprocessors          Spring 2005

Prof Gandhi Puvvada, University of Southern California

·         Teaching Assistant – Introduction to Digital Circuits                                                         Fall 2004

Prof Gandhi Puvvada, University of Southern California

·         Student Intern –Design of Eight Channel UART                                                               Spring 2003

Center for Department for Telecommunications, India

Skills                 Software – C, C ++, VHDL, Assembly Language (MIPS, 8086, 8051)

                                Tools – Active HDL, Electronic Product Designer, Genie

                                Operating Systems – Win 9x/NT/XP, Linux, UNIX

                                Web Technologies – HTML, Macromedia Flash

Courses            Computer Organization and Design, Advanced Computer Architecture, System Design using Microprocessors, Artificial Intelligence, VLSI Architectures, Real Time Systems, Logic Design and Switching Theory

Honors

·         Selected as Teaching Assistant under Prof. Gandhi Puvvada

·         Selected as Special Course Assistant under Prof. Gandhi Puvvada

·         Awarded gold medal for securing distinctions in all semesters in B.E

·         GRE – 1530/1600 (99 percentile – verbal, 96 percentile – quantitative)

·         University of New South Wales (International Competition for Schools)

o        Distinction in Science – 94^th percentile in India

o        Distinction in English – 96^th percentile in India

Affiliations     IEEE Student member