SAI ANANTHANARAYANAN P.R.
64A Elizabeth Street, # 3, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, USA.
EMAIL: saianantha21@gmail.com, PHONE: (435) 512-4283.
www.ece.utah.edu/~psai
Objective
Energetic and creative engineer willing to help where needed seeks a position in Electrical Engineering to
contribute to a design team in the field of Electromagnetics, Microwave and Antenna Design.
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. (August 2006-Present),
CGPA 4.00/4.00
M.S., Electrical Engineering: Utah State University, Logan, Utah. (August 2004-Aug 2006),
CGPA 3.92/4.00
B.E., Electronics and Tele Communication Engineering: Mumbai University, Mumbai, India
Summary of Skills
 Wireless Communication Topologies and measurement techniques.
 Microwave circuit design for RF transceivers
 RF and Microwave system design and testing
 RF design tools including ADS, Microwave Office, Sonnet, and CST.
 Antenna measurement and optimization for wireless devices.
 PCB layout design using AutoCAD, Eagle and board design tools (CCAM and Board Master).
 Antenna design and optimization for handheld and wireless applications.
 MIMO system design and optimization.
 Computational EM methods (FDFD, FDTD and MoM)
 Hands on experience with laboratory equipment including network analyzer, frequency
synthesizer, signal generator, oscilloscope and antenna anechoic chamber, MIMO test bed,
antenna fabrication.
Professional Experience
Research Assistant (August 2006–Present)
Center of Excellence for Smart Sensors, ECE Department, University of Utah
 Developing aircraft wiring fault detection technique using optical components for improved
accuracy
 Analyzing various noise models and their impact on MIMO communication
 Building optimal antenna for MIMO communication in handheld devices.
 Studying the effects of polarization agile antennas on channel capacity
Intern Motorola (Summer 2009)
 LTE Antenna Design and optimization for Mobile Application
 Femtocell Antenna Design
 MIMO and diversity measurement for indoor and outdoor environment
Instructor (Fall 2008)
 Teaching ECE 3300 Introduction to Electromagnetics at the University of Utah
RF Lab Development Engineer (August 2006–August 2008)
ECE Department, University of Utah
 Designing laboratory experiments for Microwave, Advanced Microwave and Electromagnetic
courses
 Designing and testing of antennas for wireless applications.
 Advising and assisting Senior Project design groups on antenna and computational EM projects.
Research Assistant (November 2004–May 2006)
Anderson and Mooyen Wireless Lab, Utah State University
 Designing software defined radio ground station for small satellite applications
 Designing and testing communication firmware required for SmallSats
 Developing various algorithms for the FPGA firmware using Matlab, Simulink and Xilinx Simulator
Lecturer (August 2003–July 2004) Mumbai University
Electrical Engineering Trainee (July 2001) Autodata –Mumbai, India
Projects
RF Circuit and Antenna Design
700 MHz LTE Antenna Design
 MIMO Antenna design and optimization
 Analyzing matching techniques
 Exploiting lost energy
 Performing capacity and diversity gain analysis
Antenna and Radar system Toolkit
 Developed a GUI based toolbox for parameter measurement of basic antennas like dipole, loop
and parabola reflectors.
 The toolbox could be used for design of both single antennas as well as multiple antenna arrays.
 Various impedance calculations as well as the radiation pattern and gain plots can be obtained
for the designed antennas
 Radar RCS as well as the system link budget is provided by the radar toolbox.
Design and test of dual and tri-band antennas
 Designed dual band antennas centered at 900 MHz and 1800 MHz and tri-band antennas
centered at 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2400 MHz using Microwave office.
 Built the antennas and tested them for confirming the design results.
 Performed design optimization.
Antenna design for polarization Agile MIMO
 Designed polarization agile MIMO patch antennas at 900 MHz
 Tested the Antennas by measuring the antenna characteristics in an anechoic chamber.
2-D FDTD simulator for EM and antenna Analysis
 Built microwave waveguides and studied the various propagating modes using FDTD
 Built array antennas and studied their radiation characteristics.
 Studied the effects of edge diffraction using FDTD simulations.
Body worn antenna design and optimization
 Fabric antenna design using zelt and felt fabric at 915 MHz
 On body dual patch antenna for soldiers
Maximum Gain and Low noise Amplifier Design
 Built maximum Gain and low noise amplifiers using transistors and FETS with center frequency
of 2.4 GHz
 Performed simultaneous conjugate match for matching the amplifiers for maximum gain.
 Built and tested the circuit and obtained a gain of 14 dB.
Dual and tri-band antenna designs
 Designed dual band antennas centered at 900 MHz and 1800 MHz and tri-band antennas
centered at 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2400 MHz using Microwave office.
 Built the antennas and tested them for confirming the design results.
 Performed design optimization.
Broadcast antenna design for hilly and mountainous terrains
 Design, test and analysis of various wire antennas for broadcast applications
 Matching and optimization of antennas
 Analyzing the effect of including radials on gain of antennas.
77 GHz vehicular Antenna characterization
 Radar characteristics measurement
 Path loss measurement for the radar
 Field measurement of the device
Communication
Advanced Software Defined Radio Design for Small Satellite Applications
 Designed and built a low cost PC-based and FPGA-based SDR for USU smallsat.
 Helped in the design of the chassis and the multi-layer PCB.
 Implemented modulation schemes like BPSK, QPSK and FSK along with various error control
schemes
 Rebuilt the system for increasing the flexibility of the system along with on the fly control
 Designed the up-converter and the down-converter software and hardware flow.
Wireless Channel modeling and analysis
 Designed a 2-D ray tracing algorithm for measuring wireless channels.
 Tested the model for SISO as well as MIMO communication
 Introduced various channel fading scenarios and studied its affect on system performance
 Applied the model to various wireless environments.
 Modeled various wireless channels starting with an i.i.d and Gaussian channel to various nonGaussian channels
Statistical Modeling of Multi-path Communication Channels
 Different types of multipath channels and their corresponding statistical characterization were
studied.
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Structural models for the simulation of multipath channels, based on statistical characterization,
for both diffuse and discrete category were discussed.
 Examples of various structural models were examined.
MMSE Interference Suppression for Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum CDMA
 Studied how MMSE interference suppression works for direct-sequence spread spectrum CDMA.
 Implementation schemes of cyclically shifted filter banks and Oversampling analogous
fractionally-spaced equalizer were examined.
MIMO channel capacity measurement
 Measuring the indoor MIMO channel using a 4X4 MIMO transceiver test bed
 Making use of polarization agile MIMO antennas
 Developing software for comparing the measured capacity with the modeled capacity
 Optimizing the MIMO antennas for improving the capacity for both water-filling and equal power
distributed MIMO transmitters.
Channel estimation using inversion Algorithms
 Estimating multipath communication channels in presence of noise
 Using linear and non-linear matrix inversion techniques for signal estimation
 Determining signal for both under determined and over determined cases
Femtocell characteristics and coverage analysis
 Measuring the coverage characteristics of Femtocell
 Analyzing voice, data and video coverage
 Analyzing femtocell antenna
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Proposing improved antenna design and using LTE for Femtocell applications.
VLSI
Design of fingernail sensor processor
As part of a group of 4 students we designed and tested a 16 bit processor and UART for processing
the data obtained from fingernail sensor for use in robotic arms
Design and testing of Phase locked loop chip
 Designed a low power VCO using op-amps and switch capacitors.
 VCO has an operating range of 18 kHz to 136 kHz
 The chip was developed using the 0.5 micron process and has been fabricated and tested.
Skill Set
 Operating Systems - Windows 95/98/XP/2000, Linux(basics).
 Languages: C, Assembly Language, Verilog, Perl (basics).
 RF and antenna design tools: Agilent ADS, CST, Microwave office, HFSS, NEC.
 CAD Tools: Cadence (SOC encounter, ICC CAR, Virtuoso), Synopsis (Design Compiler).
 Web Technologies: HTML.
 Hardware: 8085, 8051.
 Signal Processing and Communication deign tools: Matlab and Simulink Toolboxes, Labview
(basics).
Relevant Coursework
Antennas, Wireless Communication, Smart antenna Design, Advanced topics in Wireless
Communication, Microwaves, Radar, Remote Sensing, Digital Communication, Advanced
Communication, Advanced Electromagnetics, Numerical EM, Digital Communication, Analog
Communication, Wireless Communication and Lab , Inversion theory, estimation theory
Publications
Journal Articles
1. James R.Nagel, Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Alyssa Magleby Richards, Dr. Cynthia Furse,"
Measured multiuser MIMO capacity in aircraft", accepted for publication in IEEE Antenna and
Propagation Magazine (March 2010)
2. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Alyssa Magleby Richards, and Dr. Cynthia Furse,” Measurement
and modeling of Interference for multiple antenna system", accepted for publication in Microwave
and Optical Technology Letter (April 2010)
3. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R.,, Alyssa Magleby Richards, Dr. Cynthia Furse,” Measurement and
Modeling of Electromagnetic Interference in Aircraft Channels”, submitted to IEEE Transaction
on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Feb 2010
4. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Alyssa Magleby Richards, and Dr. Cynthia Furse,” Measurement
and modeling of Multi-Antenna systems in aircraft”, submitted to Journal of Aerospace
Computing, Information, and Communication, June 2010
5. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse,” Measurement and accurate modeling of
interference and noise in Multi-user Multiple antenna system in aircraft", submitted to
Microwave and optical technology letter July 2010
6. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse, “Joint detector and antenna optimization for
aircraft sensors," in preparation for IEEE Sensors Journal.
7. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse, “UTAH antenna for aircraft sensor
communication," in preparation for IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters.
8. Alyssa Magleby Richards. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse," 3D Simulation of
Multi-antenna system in enclosed Environments," in preparation for IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology
9. Alyssa Magleby Richards. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse," Aircraft and other
complex channel modeling," in preparation for IEEE Transaction on Vehicular communication
10. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse, Dr. Darin Furgeson," A novel Microwave ablation
antenna for generating quasi-spherical ablation regions for thermo-sensitive PolymerChemotherapy for Cancer," in preparation for Journal of Bioelectromagnetics.
11. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Ryan Lindeman, Cameron Parker, Dr. Om P.Gandhi," Novel
miniaturized dual band patch antenna for off body communication", in preparation for IEEE
Antenna and Propagation Magazine.
12. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., , Dr. Darin Furgeson," Novel Combination Therapy for Breast
Cancer", in preparation for Journal of Bioelecromagnetics.
Conference Papers
[1]. Sai. Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse,” System Level Noise and Interference
analysis for Multiple Antennas (MIMO)”, presented at IEEE Antenna and propagation
Symposium, San-Diego, July 2008
[2]. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. David Landon, and Dr. Cynthia Furse,” Iterative array level
optimization of MIMO antennas”, presented at URSI General Assembly, Illinois, Aug 2008
[3]. Sai. Ananthanarayanan, Alyssa Magleby, Dr. Cynthia Furse,” MIMO Wireless Communication
for Aircraft Sensors”, presented at Aging Aircraft 2009 Conference, May 2009
[4]. Sai. Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. Cynthia Furse,” Enabling Wireless Communication in
Aircraft”, presented at IEEE Antenna and propagation Symposium, Charleston, June 2009
[5]. Sai. Ananthanarayanan P.R., James R.Nagel, Dr. Cynthia Furse,” Combination of surface
wave and wireless propagation for aircraft sensor communication”, accepted for presentation at
Aircraft, Airworthiness and Sustainment conference May 2010 (Selected for Student Paper
Competition)
[6]. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Alyssa Magleby, Dr.Cynthia Furse," Measurement and modeling
of noise and interference in aircraft system," presented at IEEE APS/URSI 2010 Symposium
[7]. Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Dr. C. Furse, “2.45 GHz Microwave Thermal Ablation for
performing thermosensitive Polymer-Chemotheraphy for Cancer,” presented at IEEE
APS/URSI 2010 Symposium
[8]. Jason Saberian, Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Jason Carter, Tejal Shah, and Dr.Cynthia
Furse," Fabric antenna design and optimization for on body communication," presented at IEEE
APS/URSI 2010 Symposium
Awards
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IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Graduate Scholarship, May 2007
School of Graduate studies Honors Roll at Utah State University Fall 2004, Spring 2005 
Placed in top 5% of the class as an Undergraduate
Received the Best student paper award for the paper “Electrostatic precipitator control using
PLC”, at the national level IETE symposium, 2003
 Received the Best Outgoing Student of the School in 1997
Services
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Student Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation; IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Magazine, IEEE AWPL, IEEE Transaction on Education
Member of IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Education Committee
Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) member at University of Utah
Member of IEEE APS GOLD chapter editorial board
 Member of Technical
References
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