Arvind Balakumar is seeking a summer internship and has relevant experience and skills. He has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from USC and a Bachelor's degree from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering. His technical skills include tools like Cadence and programming languages like C/C++. He has taken courses in computer systems organization, VLSI circuit design, and network processor design. His past internship and projects involved designing circuits and processors. He has research experience in wireless power distribution and published a paper on traffic congestion control using fuzzy logic.

1. ARVIND BALAKUMAR
1337 West 24th street, Los Angeles, California-90007 Mobile: +1 (213)-327-4496 Email: balakuma@usc.edu
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain a summer Internship in a simulating and challenging milieu, that enables maximum utilization of my skills and
expertise in order to make a positive difference in the organization
EDUCATION:
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California August 2014-May 2016
Viterbi School of Engineering
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering CGPA: 4.0/4.0
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, India August 2010-May 2014
Bachelors of Engineering, Electronics and Communication CGPA: 8.67/10
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Ø Tools : Cadence-Virtuoso, Cadence-Allegro Design Entry Capture, Xilinx ISE, ModelSim, LTpice,
Matlab, Xcode
Ø Programming Languages: C, C++, Objective-C, SQL
Ø Scripting Languages : Perl, Bash
Ø Operating systems : MacOSX, Windows
COURSES:
Ø Fall 2014 : EE457-Computer Systems Organization, EE477L –MOS VLSI Circuit Design, EE590- Directed Research
Ø Spring 2015: EE533- Network Processor Design and Programming, EE577A- VLSI System Design
INTERNSHIPS:
• Larsen & Toubro, Technology services: December 2013-May 2014
- Developed a Universal Wireless Mobile Charger based on the Qi (“Chee”) wireless power standard.
- Designed the complete schematics in Cadence Allegro Design Entry Capture following the specifications provided by the
company.
- Completed the entire board bring up in the given time and carried out required test cases to ensure proper functionality.
PROJECTS:
• Design of a Multi Core Network Processor on NetFPGA: Spring 2015
- Designed a 5 stage Pipelined data path using Xilinx ISE, in Verilog. Emulated it on Vertex 2 Pro NetFPGA.
- Designed a custom ISA for the Network processor, which supports 30 instructions.
- Built a compiler using Perl that converts MIPS assembly code to our custom machine language that can directly be fed
into the Instruction Memory of the processor.
• Network Intrusion Detection (IDS) Engine: Spring 2015
- Designed a Network Intrusion Detection engine partially in Schematics and partially in Verilog using Xilinx ISE.
- The engine detects malicious Network packets and drops them without forwarding to the next node.
- The engine can detect up to 20 malicious packets of 7 Bytes wide each, which can be programmed during run time.
• Single Core Processor – VLSI System Design: Spring 2015
- Designed a single core processor at gate level using Cadence Virtuoso. Improved performance of the processor by adding
Forwarding and Hazard detection units.
- Built a 512 bit SRAM with single read and write port, that was used as the Memory in the processor.
- Reduced the combinational logic path delay by sizing the gates using Logical effort. Also optimized the power
consumption of critical cells using Power gating.
• Design of a Neuron cell - MOS VLSI Circuit Design: Fall 2014
- Implemented a neuron cell that provides a firing pulse based on the input stimuli.
- Learned key layout strategies and techniques to make circuits small and fast.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:
• Directed Research: Wireless power distribution to sensor clusters using electromagnetic induction under Professor
Dr.Edmond A.Jonckheere, University of Southern California.
• “Pixel detection and elimination algorithm to control traffic congestion aided by Fuzzy logic”- Fifth International
Conference on Advanced Computing, ICoAC 2013 (IEEE Madras section), ISBN: 978-1-4799-3447-8.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND POSITIONS:
• Secretary of Electronics and Communication Association in College and organized a National Level Symposium
“PANORAMA”.
• Served as an external guide for school students at M.K.M Matriculation school, for an electronics project “Laser in
Communication”.