Nachiket Desai
http://web.mit.edu/ndesai/
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
50 Vassar Street, Rm. 38-107
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: ndesai@mit.edu
Tel: +1 (617) 253-0164
+1 (617) 256-5825
AREAS OF INTEREST
• Wireless Power Transmission
• High-Efficiency Power Converters
• Low-power Analog & RF IC Design
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• GPA: 5.0/5.0
Cambridge, MA
• Thesis topic: Circuits for high-efficiency, targeted wireless charging; Research advisor: Prof.
Anantha Chandrakasan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• GPA: 5.0/5.0
Cambridge, MA
• Thesis title: “A Low-Power, Reconfigurable Fabric Body Area Network for Healthcare Applications”; Research advisor: Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
B.Tech. (Honors) in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
• GPA: 9.73/10.00
Kharagpur, India
MAJOR PROJECTS
Authenticated Wireless Power Transfer
MIT, Fall 2015 - Present
• Designing protocols and circuits for selective wireless power transmission in a single transmittermultiple receiver scenario.
Maximum-Efficiency Tracking for Wireless Charging
MIT, Summer 2013 - Summer
2015
• Designed a receiver using a new rectifier topology along with a purely receiver-side maximumefficiency tracking technique for wireless charging from smartphones to IoT devices.
• The receiver can achieve up to 14% savings in transmitter energy by tracking the maximumefficiency point across the charging cycle of a standard Li-ion battery.
e-Textiles Body Area Network
MIT, Fall 2010 - Spring 2013
• Designed circuits for the PHY and MAC layers of a network of sensors placed around the human
body that monitor vital signs.
• The sensors are connected to network interface ICs that are remotely powered by and transmit
data back to a base station IC using e-textiles.
Nachiket Desai
http://web.mit.edu/ndesai/
LVDS Driver with Active Termination
IIT Kharagpur, Fall 2009 - Summer 2010
• Designed an IC with a Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) standard-compliant output
driver.
• The design used an active termination scheme as an asymmetric impedance match and achieved
up to 40% reduction in power over comparable designs using passive termination.
INTERNSHIPS
Texas Instruments
Santa Clara, CA, Summer 2014
• Worked on rectifier modeling, architectures for power regulation and in-band signaling for wireless
power transmission systems.
Texas Instruments
Dallas, TX, Summer 2012
• Worked on designing high-efficiency integrated power converters to cold-start and harvest energy
from low voltage-output thermoelectric generators.
Qualcomm
San Diego, CA, Summer 2009
• Worked on channel diversity analyses as part of the 802.11ac standardization effort.
PATENTS
• N. V. Desai, Y. K. Ramadass, “Voltage conversion and charging from low bipolar input voltage”,
US Patent App. 14/180,945, Feb. 2014.
AWARDS AND HONORS
• IIT Kharagpur Institute Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis
• Gold Medal at the Indian National Chemistry Olympiad, 2006
PUBLICATIONS
• N. Desai, J. Yoo, A. P. Chandrakasan, “A Scalable, 2.9 mW, 1 Mb/s e-Textiles Body Area
Network Transceiver With Remotely-Powered Nodes and Bi-Directional Data Communication”,
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 1995-2004, Sep. 2014.
• N. V. Desai, Y. Ramadass, A. P. Chandrakasan, “A bipolar ±40 mV self-starting boost converter
with transformer reuse for thermoelectric energy harvesting”, Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 221-226, Aug. 2014.
• N. V. Desai, J. Yoo, A. P. Chandrakasan, “A Scalable 2.9mW 1Mb/s eTextiles Body Area
Network Transceiver with Remotely Powered Sensors and Bi-Directional Data Communication”,
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 206-207,
Feb. 2013.
• P. V. S. Rao, N. Desai, P. Mandal, “A Low-Power 5-Gb/s Current-Mode LVDS Output Driver
and Receiver with Active Termination”, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 31, no. 1,
pp. 31-49, Feb. 2012.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Long-Distance Running - Ran the 2014 Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC. Raised
$2300 for the charity Association for India’s Development (AID) to help various NGOs in India.
• Student Groups - Served on the exexutive board of the Indian students’ association, Sangam,
and AID’s MIT student chapter. Was involved in planning social events, lectures by eminent
social workers from India and concerts for charity on campus.