1. Srikar Potta
3142 Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh, NC-27606 | (919) 360-6896 | spotta@ncsu.edu
OBJECTIVE:
Actively looking for an entry level position to use my skills and knowledge to lead innovation in the field of wireless
communication/networking.
EDUCATION:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC GPA 3.83/4
M.S. in Electrical Engineering Aug’15 – Dec’16
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India GPA 9.12/10
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering Jul’11 – May’15
SKILLSET:
 Languages: C, Python, MATLAB, Ruby, R, Assembly, MySQL
 Tools: IBM Bluemix, Multisim, Arduino, Keil uVision, Proteus, CISCO VIRL, OPNET, Photoshop, After effects
 Protocols and Technologies: OFDM, UMTS, HSPA, GSM, CDMA, LTE, LTE-A, BLE, TCP/IP, 802.11, BGP, OSPF
PROJECTS:
 California Water Drought Challenge Jun’16 – Nov’16
Designed a solution for the National Geography Challenge on California water problem using Data Analysis and IoT
 Machine learning & MIMO on USRPs Mar’16 – Nov’16
Programmed the USRP MIMO setup for file transfer and estimating signal degradation using machine learning
 Combline Butterworth Filter Sep’15 – Nov’15
Design of a Third-Order Butterworth Combline Bandpass Filter using MCLIN in AWR
 Peer to Peer with centralized index Sep’15 – Nov’15
Implemented a FTP file transfer between peers and used go-back-N for reliability, in Python
 VTOL drone Jun’16 – Dec’16
Built a GPS enabled and fully autonomous VTOL drone from Skywalker X-8 and used KK2 controller
 Marauder’s Map using Intel Edison Jun’16 – Jul’16
Configured, deployed and evaluated Intel Edison boards and their location using RSSI-WiFi localization
 San Francisco crime classification Feb’16 – Apr’16
Evaluated classification algorithms(Random forests, Bagging, Decision Trees) in R for the crime dataset
 Rainfall and Pore water prediction using Neural Networks (Capstone) Dec’14 – May’15
Predicted rainfall and pore water pressure, and thus landslides resulting from them through various neural
network models
 Home Automation Feb’13 – May’13
Designed a secure home automation system, where the user can access and control the home appliances via
internet. It was made using ZigBee, Raspberry Pi and Arduino
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:
 Analogics Tech India Ltd Jun’12 – Jul’12
Worked in manufacturing and testing of Spot billing machines and wireless energy meters
 Bharat Electronics Ltd Jun’13 – Jul’13
Studied the working of stabilizer units, radar, and turret manufacturing for T72, T90 army tanks
CO-CURRICULAR AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACHIEVEMENTS:
 Spectrum ShaRC Contest 2015-16 – Winner of the Spectrum Sharing Radio Contest – A cognitive radio design
challenge using open source SDR software hosted by Motorola and Virginia Tech
 Application Development using ARM - A 50 hours education program conducted by TIFAC (research place in VIT)
where we had hands on experience with ARM
 CANSAT - Developed a Can-sized satellite which measures Altitude, Temperature and Pressure when deployed
RELEVANT COURSEWORK:
Wireless Communications, Advanced Wireless Networking, Internet of things, Router Network Design, Internet
Protocols, Object Oriented Design, Digital Signal Processing RF Design for wireless, Automated Learning and Data
Analysis