ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Rutgers, The State
University of New Brunswick
Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current GPA: 4.0/4.0
Expected Date of graduation: May 2011
SSN College of Engineering(Affl. Anna University, Chennai, India)
BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
First Class with
Distinction(80%)
Graduation: May 2009
PUBLICATIONS
A. N. Arvindan and Karthik Elangovan, Closed Loop Control of a symmetrical
multiphase modulated single-phase bi-directional AC regulator feeding
an inductive load.
International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems( IEEE
PEDS 2009)
PROJECTS
COOPERATIVE
CACHING
MIDDLEWARE
Implemented
a
Cooperative main-memory caching
middleware for distributed file server. Memory of all the servers are
viewed as
a single huge chunk of memory by the middleware reducing the number of
requests
that would be served from disk. Implemented two different placement and
three
replacement policies
EXPONENTIAL
QUEUE
SCHEDULING
Implemented Exponential Queue Scheduler
in Linux kernel
2.4.24. In exponential queue
scheduling incoming tasks
are assigned higher
priorities and shorter time slices.
Tasks using
entire time slice is penalized
by decreasing its priority and
doubling time slice. Starvation prevention is
implemented by
increasing priority of tasks that have
waited for a
certain threshold.
SNOOPY
SECURE SHELL
Implemented
a
secure Unix shell capable of providing the
Operating System to the user. The shell
can understand simple
commands.
In
addition, the shell
- Peeks at the
code section of the
command and compute its digest (SHA1) to prevent a program from
executing if it
has been modified.
- Log the
sequence of the system
calls invoked by the command. If the sequence is not same as last
execution the
program is stopped
- Check that the
program about to be
executed is not black-listed and that there are no calls to
black-listed system
calls.
SMALL
MULTICAST PROTOCOL
Designed
a multicast protocol
that can deliver packets to upto four nodes. The protocol was
implemented on a
C++ based abstract
platform that emulates a
point-to-point communication link by abstracting real physical
connection and
sockets. Routers used this abstract platform to deliver packets,
perform
bootstrapping and discover other routers and end nodes. RIP was used as
the
routing protocol to deliver unicast packets.
BRANCH
PREDICTION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Perceptron
based
branch
predictor was added to the open source computer architecture
simulator -
SimpleScalar using C. The predictor gave lower mispredict rates and
higher IPC.
ANALYSIS
OF HIGHWAY LANE MERGING METHODS
Discrete
Time Markov Chain model was built for two
lane merging schemes in a highway. The model was simulated using MATLAB
for
varying traffic flows and the results were obtained.
FINAL
YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT - CLOSED LOOP CONTROL OF THREE-PHASE
THREE-WIRE AC
CHOPPER
A scheme
for closed loop control of three-phase
three-wire a.c. chopper was devised. The a.c. power control circuit
uses Power
MOSFET embedded discrete component four-quadrant switch (4QSW).
Symmetrical
Multipulse Modulation (SMM) technique was adopted. Discrete analog
component
based PI controller was used in the feedback loop. Phase locked loop
based
circuits were used to generate synchronized gating signals for the
MOSFETs.