Pratik Yadav

– Responsible for system design and firmware development to meet functional requirements of various digital thermostats. – Implemented easy to use UI menu along with keypad/touch-screen drivers to change and select various thermostat settings. – Integrated temperature and humidity sensor and devised humidity control algorithm in the pre-existing HVAC system. – Developed firmware for occupancy and presence detection using thermopile/pyroelectric sensors that reduced the energy consumption in a standard HVAC system by 20%. – Designed and programmed a serial communication-based software test protocol to automate the testing of various building blocks in different thermostats that improved the factory manufacturing productivity by 50%. – Programmed device drivers for various memory modules to support over-the-air firmware updates.

– Delivered microcontroller bring up by coding low layer APIs for GPIOs, I2C, SPI, UART, RTC, ADC, RTC, PWM, low power modes, etc. – Successfully supported multiple projects to develop IoT products using Ingenu’s RPMA wireless communication technology: Smart street light controller, Battery operated object tracking system, Ultrasonic parking meter solution, Soil moisture detection, Temperature, and humidity monitor. – Experience with Python scripting for data parsing and analysis of various electrical sensors. – Test and provide code reviews, write technical reports, and developed training manuals/documents for the customers.

Master's thesis topic: "An efficient hardware implementation of an energy detection-based spectral estimator for cognitive radios."

Help residents of dormitories to grasp mathematical concepts regarding Calculus, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics..

– Successfully registered IoT-enabled devices SAM W25, SAM D21, SAM 4S on Atmel and AWS cloud using Atmel studios. – Developed GUI on python for REST API to access IoT devices registered on the cloud server and display their statistics. – Porting agent code on Raspberry pi-2 kit to register it on cloud portal and transmit parameters and statistics to the cloud server.

The core curriculum of the Embedded Systems Engineering program divulged deep into embedded systems hardware design, Embedded-C programming, Real-time systems, Real-time operating system (RTOS), and Embedded Linux.

– Gained experience in developing and programming FPGA-based embedded systems using Verilog HDL and Matlab. – Analyzed various digital signal processing algorithms and devised a novel system design for low power and high throughput Verilog HDL implementation of energy detection-based spectrum sensing. – Designed, implemented, and verified fixed-point arithmetic operators, Logarithmic functions, IIR, and FIR filters.

– Hands-on experience with microcontroller bring-up for various embedded applications using C programming. – Trained for testing and debugging integrated circuit boards using lab equipment like digital multimeters, digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, logic analyzer, etc – Learned fundamentals for various communication technologies, signal processing, computer architecture, software programming, and operating systems.