komala madineedi

Designed an efficient algorithm for tracking a maneuvering target using Extended Kalman Filter and demonstrated the performance of the tracker in terms of the error in position, velocity, acceleration, filter estimated variance and Kalman gain

* Developed VHDL code for Advance Encryption Standard (AES) and verified the same using "Rijndael Inspector" * Presented the work in an IEEE * Women In Engineering (WIE) Student Conference and was awarded the "First Prize"

● Worked as a Verification Engineer on a Pre-Silicon design team tasked with delivering a complex packet scheduler that enables quality of service in a network ● Owned a test plan for a sub-unit of the design. Responsibilities included, reviewing design specifications, helping define test conditions, implementing functional coverage conditions in SystemVerilog, analyzing coverage collection from regression testing and holding team reviews ● Implemented self-checking test sequences in the OVM testbench to verify memory accesses through configuration registers. Correlated expected test behavior in the design by analyzing design interfaces, bus monitor outputs and wave traces from simulation ● Recognized twice by members of the team for being proactive, organized, disciplined and result oriented and for the tasks accomplished

* ● Serving as Teaching Assistant for 2 courses: * 1. "Digital Design: Theory and Practice" (CMPEN 270) * 2. "Introduction to Digital Systems" (CMPEN 271) * at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park (Main) campus * ● Conducting weekly lab sessions for the course and supervising 75 undergraduate students * ● Teaching the concepts required for completing the lab tasks and coding through Verilog * ● Designing FPGA circuits using Verilog, Altera Quartus II software and ModelSim EDA tool * ● Clarifying the queries on assignments and concepts taught in the class * ● Updating the lab scores on the Course Management System * ● Holding Office Hours and responding to emails within 12 business hours

* Project Cahir : Penn State students united against poverty * ● Held meets with the Department Heads of various colleges on campus to include our resource on their respective syllabi page/website * ● Presented our goals in faculty meetings to make them aware of this initiative * ● Worked extensively on "Library Course Reserve" project - An initiative aimed at having at least one prescribed textbook on Course Reserve in the libraries * ● Successfully completed "USEED: An Online Crowd-funding Campaign" by reaching our goal of raising $5000 in one month * ● Mentioned weekly ideas and views on a blog which can be viewed at * http://sites.psu.edu/projectcahir/tag/komala-s-madineedi/"

* Komala works as a Verification Engineer for a Pre-Silicon design team tasked with delivering a complex packet scheduler that enables quality of service in a network (Data Center Group) * Board Member of NextGen Professionals Network * an Employee Resource Group at Intel * Event Lead for Intel Lab Tours at Chandler : Organized 24 sessions of Chandler Lab Tours across 12 different labs in the course of an year, which catered to increasing lab-specific knowledge among 250 employees across various business units

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with minor in Computational Science - Masters Thesis : A platform for evaluating embedded multi-core systems - A Cahir Corps member : group of Penn state students united against poverty. Activities and Societies: Cahir Corps Member - Project Cahir - Penn State students united against poverty ; Indian Graduate Student Association - Penn State ; AID - Penn State ; Penn State Yoga & Integral Living Club

Activities and Societies: IEEE student chapter, Active Member of The Electronix Club, National Service Scheme (NSS), College Throwball Team Captai, IETE (The Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers)