Karthick Lakshmanan

Current

• Graduate Research Assistant at E-Textiles Lab, Virginia Tech

Past

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at Virginia Tech
• Embedded Software Engineer at Delphi Automotive Systems

Education

• Virginia Tech
• Thiagarajar College of Engineering
• TVS Lakshmi MHSS

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Connections

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Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Lab

Karthick Lakshmanan’s Summary

Possess 3 years of embedded system development experience.Currently pursuing Masters in Computer Engineering focusing on computer systems(architecture design for distributed embedded applications).

Research/Career Interests: Embedded Software/Systems Development, FPGA/ASIC Design

Karthick Lakshmanan’s Specialties:

Embedded Systems development and testing with exposure to almost all the phases of product development, Exposure to Object-Oriented Design,Scripting experience (Python and Perl), FPGA and ASIC implementations (System Verilog, Synopsys Tools), Computer Architecture (Dataflow) ,Automobile engine systems.

Karthick Lakshmanan’s Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant

  E-Textiles Lab, Virginia Tech

  (Higher Education industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Design and development of a dataflow pipelined processor architecture using System Verilog with Synopsys tool-chain and an architecture exploration framework for the same using Python, C and C++ on Linux.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Virginia Tech

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

  Independent lab supervisor for Electronic Networks course.

• Embedded Software Engineer

  Delphi Automotive Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DPHIQ; Automotive industry)

  July 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 1 month)

  --> Application layer development and feature level testing of embedded software for Engine Management Systems (EMS)
  --> Development of PERL based automation tools
  --> Project coordinator managing a team of Software engineers, handling work allocation, and improving the productivity and quality metrics of the team
  --> Been the point of contact for Teamwork tool management, training and server maintenance.
  --> Key member in the training team giving hands-on training to new entrants of the team.

Karthick Lakshmanan’s Education

• Virginia Tech

  Master of Science , Computer Engineering , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

  Thesis: Design of a novel embedded architecture for E-Textiles applications
  Courses: Parallel Computer Architecture, Configurable Computing, Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing,
  Analysis/Design of Embedded Systems, Digital Design II, Testing and Verification of Digital Systems

  Activities and Societies:

  E-Textiles Lab, IEEE

• Thiagarajar College of Engineering

  2001 — 2005

  Participated in various design contests, hardware and software contests and won prizes.

  Activities and Societies:

  Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Class Committee member.

• TVS Lakshmi MHSS

Additional Information

Karthick Lakshmanan’s Websites:

• My Lab

Karthick Lakshmanan’s Groups:

IEEE

•    Alumni Network of TCE, Madurai
•    Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
•    DELPHI Automotive Alumni
•    TVS Lakshmi MHSS - LOSA
•    Virginia Tech ECE
•    Madurai Small Scale IT Companies
•    Engineers of South India

Karthick Lakshmanan’s Honors:

--Rated “Outstanding” in the annual performance appraisal at Delphi for the year 2007-2008.

--Received the coveted Quality Performance Award and a cash reward at Delphi citing “flawless execution of RSA project development” and “excellent training” provided to the new entrants.

--Received the Quality Performance Award once more for proactively developing many PERL based tools that automated most of the routine jobs eliminating manual errors and substantially decreasing the time required.

--Qualified for the final round of National Talent Search Examinations conducted by the National Council of educational Research and Training-an apex educational body of the Government of India.

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