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(Sept 2007 - Present) PhD in Electrical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

June 2001 – May 2005  Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering
Anna University, Chennai, India
Aggregate percentage: 85% 

May 2006 - Present Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Research Area: MIMO downlink communications with Limited Feedback
Advisor: Prof. Nihar Jindal

Sept 2005 - May 2006 Research Assistant
Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Project: Interactive software for a high-volume renderer
Advisor: Prof. Paul Woodward

•  Programming languages: Highly proficient in C, C++, C# .net, VB
•  Simulation & Analysis: Well versed in Matlab, Simulink, GloMoSim
•  Others: ASP, SQL, PERL

•  Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
Total 1480/1600, Quantitative 800/800, Verbal 680/800 Analytical Writing 5.0/6.0
•  Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): 300/300 Essay: 6.0/6.0
•  SPEAK Test (Test of Spoken English): 60/60

1. N. Ravindran, and N. Jindal, "Multi-User Diversity vs. Accurate Channel Feedback for MIMO Broadcast Channel", Submitted to: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), September 2007
   
2. G. Caire, N. Jindal, M. Kobayashi, and N. Ravindran, "Achievable Throughput of MIMO Downlink Beamforming with Limited Channel Information", IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), August 2007 (Invited Paper)
   
3. N. Ravindran, N. Jindal, and H. Huang, "Beamforming with Finite Rate Feedback for LOS MIMO Downlink Channels", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), November 2007
   
4. G. Caire, N. Jindal, M. Kobayashi, and N. Ravindran, "Quantized vs. Analog Feedback for the MIMO Downlink: A Comparison between Zero-Forcing Based Achievable Rates", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2007
   
5. N. Ravindran and N. Jindal, "MIMO Broadcast Channels with Block Diagonalization and Finite Rate Feedback", IEEE nternational Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 2007
   

Detection and Estimation (April 2007):
CSI feedback in MIMO downlink channels with time-correlated fading

Convex Optimization (April 2006):
Worst-case capacity and (robust) power allocation for MIMO systems when channel estimates with a bounded error are available at the transmitter

Wireless Communications (April 2006):
A study on the design and performance of space-time coding for MIMO systems

Error Control Coding (April 2006):
Implementation of encoders and decoders for BCH , RS and Turbo Codes (Berlekamp-Massey, Meggitt, Soft Viterbi and log-MAP decoders) in MATLAB

Digital Communications (December 2005)
A study on the design techniques and performance of Multi-tone FSK systems and their implicit frequency diversity characteristics in Rayleigh fading channels

Senior Undergraduate Projects (May 2005):
•  Design & simulation of a robust hierarchical (two level) multicast routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks, with the upper level operating at the application layer and the lower level based on the Differential Destination Multicast (DDM) method
•  Simulation and performance analysis of a Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol on a wireless ad hoc network simulator, modified to account for signal strength information made available at the routing layer

Junior Undergraduate Project (May 2004):
MATLAB implementation of adaptive noise cancellation algorithms with correlated signal leakage

Graduate (Includes current):
Fall 2005     : Probability and stochastic processes, Digital communications
Spring 2006 : Wireless communications, Error control coding, Convex optimization (with applications in adaptive beamforming, equalization etc)
Fall 2006     : Information theory, Mathematical analysis-I
Spring 2007 : Detection & Estimation theory, Game theory, Mathematical analysis-II
Fall 2007     : Computational Aspects of Matrix Theory, Theory of Probability including Measure Theory

Undergraduate (Relevant):
Digital signal processing, Adaptive filtering, Communication systems, Cellular mobile communications and Wireless standards, Antenna design, Electromagnetic waveguides, Computer communication networks, Control systems, Data structures, Analog and digital circuit design.