Vivek Pahwa is seeking a summer internship in network design and hardware starting in May 2017. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University with a focus on network design, security, and wireless networking. He has experience in data analysis, web scraping using Python, and network simulation tools. His past projects include analyzing network protocols using Wireshark and analyzing secondary user throughput in cognitive radio networks using MATLAB.

1. 1625 Crest Road, Apt #3
Raleigh, NC 27606
USA VI V E K PA H W A
+1-(919)-785-6595
vpahwa@ncsu.edu
linkedin.com/in/vivekpahwa93
OBJECTIVE
Seeking summer internship opportunities starting May 2017 in the areas of Network Design and Network Hardware.
EDUCATION
Master of Science North Carolina State University Expected Dec 2017
 MS in Electrical Engineering, GPA: 4.0/4.0
Focus on Network Design and Hardware, Network Security, and Wireless networking
Relevant Coursework: Internet Protocols, Introduction to Wireless Networking, Computer and Networking
Security, Computer Networks, Signal Processing for Communications and Networking, Wireless Communication
Systems
Bachelor of Engineering BITS Pilani – KK Birla Goa Campus May 2015
 B.E. (Hons.) Electronics and Instrumentation, GPA: 7.87/10.0
Relevant Coursework: Telecom Switching Systems and Networks, Digital Communication Networks, Mobile
Telecom Networks, Signals and Systems, Analog Electronics, Microelectronics
Technical Skills:
 Languages: C, Python
 Tools: Cisco Packet Tracer, Wireshark, Pingplotter, MATLAB, Mathematica, LateX
 Hardware Platforms: Arduino
 Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
CERTIFICATIONS
 Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices-1 (ICND-1)
 Certificate in Network Management by NETTECH
WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Data Analyst Exponentia DataLabs Fall 2015
 Wrote scripts for Web Parsing and Web Scraping using Python
 Wrote Python scripts for automating data cleaning process in Excel
 Led a team of 4-5 members responsible for scraping millions of entries from the web, cleaning of data, and
loading data into MySQL for further processing
TECHNICAL PROJECT
 Analysis and simulation of network protocols (2017) – Using Wireshark and PingPlotter to generate packets
and capture them for the analysis of network protocols such as IP, ICMP, DHCP, UDP and TCP.
 Secondary User Throughput Analysis in a Hybrid Underlay-Overlay CR System (2016) - In this project, I
reproduced the results of an existing IEEE transaction paper and proposed an extension to the system model
considered by them. The considered system is a hybrid system where a secondary user can switch between
overlay and underlay modes of transmission with the aim to enhance its throughput. A probabilistic approach is
employed for the primary user channel states modeling them as a discrete Markov Chain. The reproduced results
match both, in trend and in values, to the analytical as well as the Monte Carlo simulation results present in the
paper. The coding is done on MATLAB for both, analytical and simulation results. It is shown that a proper
selection of the access strategy of the secondary user based on the primary user channel characteristics has
throughput advantages over a fixed mode of transmission.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Thesis Analysis of Cognitive Radios Spring 2015
Carnegie Mellon University, Rwanda
 Modeling and formulating primary user’s performance in a cognitive radio network
 Devising a new method to find path loss exponent of a system with no knowledge of the location of the
transmitters, and using Universal Software Radio Peripherals (USRP) along with GNU Radio to validate the
devised theory
PUBLICATIONS
 A. Sundar, V. Pahwa, and C. Das, “Denoising knee joint vibration signals using variational model
decomposition,” 2016 International Conference on Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications,
Springer, West Bengal, India, Feb. 2016.
 A. Sundar, V. Pahwa, and C. Das, “A new method for denoising knee joint vibroarthrographic signals,” 2015
IEEE INDICON, New Delhi, India, Dec 2015.
 A. Sundar, V. Pahwa, C. Das, M. Deshmukh, and N. Robinson, “Comprehensive Assessment of the Performance
of Modern Algorithms for Enhancement of Digital Volume Pulse Signals,” 2016 International Conference on
Biomedical Engineering and Technology (ICBET 2016), Singapore, Mar. 2016
 A. Sundar, and V. Pahwa, “Evaluating the Performance of State of the Art Algorithms for Enhancement of
Seismocardiogram Signals,” 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication
(ICIC2 – 2016), Springer, Kalyani, India, Feb. 2016