Ajit Gopalakrishnan

Current

• Analog Design Engineer at Hughes Network Systems

Past

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at North Carolina State University
• Product Engineering Intern at Qualcomm

Education

• North Carolina State University
• Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology
• Our Own English high School

• Swami Vivekanand Junior

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Connections

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Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Summary

I am currently working on the design of high-speed Analog Integrated circuits, and completing my Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Specialties:

Areas: Analog and Mixed-Signal Design, ASIC and Digital Design, High-speed IO Design, RF System and circuit design, Device Physics and modeling

EDA tools: Cadence DF II (Analog Artist, Virtuoso XL, DIVA, Verilog - XL, Encounter, HSPICE, SpectreRF, Awaves); Agilent ADS; Synopsys (Primetime, Design Compiler); Agilent 93000 SOC series IC test suite

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Experience

• Analog Design Engineer

  Hughes Network Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HUGH; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  North Carolina State University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 5 months)

  Teaching Assistant for the following courses
  ECE 331: Principles of Electrical Engineering I 08/05 - 12/05
  ECE 435: Elements of Control 08/05 - 05/06
  ECE 549: RF Design for Wireless 08/06 - 12/06
  ECE 792X: IC Design for Wireless Commns. 01/07 - 05/07
  ECE 511: Analog Electronics 08/07 - 12/07
  
  Duties include grading deliverables, helping students in homeworks and projects and helping with creating course materials.

• Product Engineering Intern

  Qualcomm

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  # Worked on Agilent ATE and Agilent 93000 SOC testing software for
  debugging MSM™ 6260, MSM™ 7200 and MSM™ 7500 chipsets.
  # Worked with Failure Analysis Teams to identify potential leakage
  problems in chip design.
  # Collected and analyzed data obtained from characterization and
  correlation of MSM devices.
  # Assisted senior product engineers with analysis of reliability,
  qualification and yield data.

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Education

• North Carolina State University

  MS , Electrical Engineering , 2005 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Kappa Phi

• Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology

  B.E. , Electronics Engineering , 2001 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  IEEE, Computer society of India (CSI), Students' Forum for Electronics, Debating Society

• Our Own English high School

• Swami Vivekanand Junior

Additional Information

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Interests:

Movies and Independent cinema, Web 2.0 technology, international travel, gourmet cooking, world history, photography, cricket

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Groups:

•    Analog Mixed-Signal and RF (AMS/RF) IC Design and Development Group
•    VLSI Design
•    Hughes Network Systems

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Honors:

Phi Kappa Phi

Ajit Gopalakrishnan’s Contact Settings

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