Embedded Systems Graduate Students

The following individuals are current or past students of Dr. James Conrad.

Current PhD Students (3)
Past PhD Students (0)
Current MS-Thesis Students (6)
Past MS-Thesis Students (12)
Current MS-Project Students (3)
Past MS-Project Students (23)
Current Undergraduate Students (1)
Past Undergraduate Students (5)

Current Ph.D. Students

Sami Lasassmeh (

Resume)

Area: Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee

Internship: Renesas, Durham, NC

Completed coursework and Qualifying Exam.
Expected Graduation: 5/2009

Kevin Hammond

Area: Multiprocessing and Computer Architecture

Completed coursework and Qualifying Exam.
Expected Graduation: TBD

Richard McKinney (

website)

Area: Embedded Systems and Robotics

Started Fall 2007
Internship: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC
Expected Graduation: TBD

Current M.S. Students - Thesis

Benjamin Levine ( Resume)
Area: Embedded Wireless Sensors and Networks (thesis)

Expected Graduation: 5/2008

Photo not available Kunal Bavishi ( Resume)
Area: A Power Measurements Testbed of Embedded Wireless Systems (thesis)

Expected Graduation: 5/2008

Siddharth Ahuja ( Resume)

Area: Embedded Systems

Expected Graduation: 12/2008

Aby Kuruvilla ( Resume)(website)

Area: TBD

Expected Graduation: 5/2009

Photo not available Sharayu Ghangrenkar ( Resume)

Area: TBD

Expected Graduation: 5/2009

Malcolm Zapata ( Resume)

Area: Robotics

Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC
Expected Graduation: 12/2009

Jerry Zacharias ( Resume)
Area: Embedded Systems, DSP

Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC
Expected Graduation: TBD
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Photo not available Mark Ford

Area: Embedded Systems (Part-time)

Employment: Thorlo, Inc., Statesville, NC
Expected Graduation: TBD

Current M.S. Students - Project

Photo not available	Bin Huang ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems and applications (project) Internship: NetApp, RTP, NC Expected Graduation: 5/2008
Photo not available	Anagha Basole ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems and applications (project) Expected Graduation: 12/2008
Photo not available	Monil Neema ( Resume) Area: TBD Expected Graduation: 12/2008
Photo not available	Amit Kumar Area: TBD Expected Graduation: 12/2008
Photo not available	Shrenik Mehta Area: TBD Expected Graduation: 12/2008

Current Undergraduate Research Students

Photo not available Kristen Reband
Area: Stiquito and Embedded Systems

Expected Graduation: 5/2008

Graduated M.S. Students - Thesis

	Chaitanya Misal ( Resume) Thesis Title: Analysis of Power Consumption of an End Device in a ZigBee Mesh Network ( thesis) - 12/2007 Internship: Digi, Boston, MA Internship: Lester Electrical, Lincoln, NE Employment: IPG Photonics, Boston
	Nick Wieder Thesis Title: System-On-Programmable-Chip Design Using a Unified Development Environment ( thesis) - 5/2007 Internship: General Dynamics, Charlotte, NC Employment: General Dynamics, Charlotte, NC
	Sonia Thakur, MSEE, UNC Charlotte ( Resume) Thesis title: Embedded Linux Platform to Collect, Analyze and Store Critical Data for the Navigation of an Autonomous Vehicle ( thesis) - 12/2006 Internship: GE Energy, Melbourne, FL Employment: Hughes Networks, Germantown, MD
	Sandeep Sirpatil, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Thesis title: Implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol Stack For Linux ( thesis) - 11/2006 Employment: Vector Controls, Inc., Newton, MA
	Ishfan Vakil, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Thesis title: Using Optical Communications with Embedded Systems ( thesis) - 11/2006 Internship: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA Employment: Texas Instruments, San Diego, CA
	Gajendra Singh, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Thesis title: Development of Multithreaded Real-time Data Acquisition Solutions ( thesis) - 8/2006 Employment: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC
	Rajan Rai, MSEE, UNC Charlotte ( Resume) Thesis title: IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol Implementation and Measurement of Current Consumption ( thesis) – 4/2006 Internship: Nivis, LLC (Wireless), Atlanta, GA Employment: Ingenient Technologies, Inc, Baltimore, MD
Photo not available	Assad Ansari, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Thesis title: Hardware Development of an Embedded Wireless Evaluation Board ( thesis) – 11/2005 Internship: Nivis, LLC (Wireless), Atlanta, GA Employment: ADS Inc, Columbia, MD
Photo not available	Murari Raghavan, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Thesis title: Testing Of A New Wireless Embedded Board ( thesis) - 11/2005 Employment: Lowes Hardware (IT Center, Headquarters), Wilksboro, NC
Photo not available	Binada Ramachandran, MSCSE, U of Arkansas Thesis title: Parallel Lookahead Procedures with Respect to Constraint Satisfaction Problems – 12/1995 Employment: unknown
	Krishnamurthy Ramalingham, MSCSE, U of Arkansas Thesis title: Comparative Study of the NQueens Problem Using Multiple Parallel Architectures - 10/1995 Employment: Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India
Photo not available	Jerry Mathew, MSCSE, U of Arkansas Thesis title: Parallel Search Algorithms for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems – 12/1993 Employment: Fidelity Investments, RI (formerly: Fedex, Memphis, TN)

Graduated M.S. Students - Project

	Praneeth Bajjuri ( Resume) Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007 Internship: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA Employment: Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
	Sravanthi Chalasani Area: Power Scavaging - 12/2007 Internship: Mentor Graphics, OR Employment: Mentor Graphics, OR
Photo not available	Santhosh Ramani ( Resume) Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007 Internship: Sapphire Technical Solutions, Charlotte, NC Employment: MicroBlade, Inc, Madison, WI
Photo not available	Ashwin Subramaniam ( Resume) Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007 Employment: TBD
	Gurunath Athalye ( Resume) Area: Educational Board for Stepper Motor Interface -8/2007 Internship: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC Employment: TBD
	Chitti Srilekha Area: Performance Analysis of an RTOS - 8/2007 Internship: Bellsouth, Raleigh, NC Employment: TBD
Photo not available	Prikanka Krishna Area: Performance Analysis of an RTOS - 8/2007 Internship: xxxxx, xxxx Employment: TBD
	Sushant Sengupta Area: A Wireless Strain Gauge Measurement System - 5/2007 Internship: Nokia, San Diego, CA Employment: Verizon, Cedar Rapids, IA
Photo not available	Christina Warren Area: Embedded Systems Micro File System (project) - 5/2007 Internship: Texas Instruments, San Diego, CA Employment: Texas Instruments, San Diego, CA
	Pinank Mahesh Shah Project title: A Wireless Strain Gauge Measurement System - 5/2007 Internship: Family Dollar (IT, Headquarters), Charlotte, NC Employment: TBD
	Asma Khizer Area: USB Solutions for Small Embedded System Applications (project) - 3/2007 Employment: Embedded Systems and Software, Inc. (Peoria, IL)
Photo not available	Venkat Dronamraju Project title: Educational Board for Stepper Motor Interface - 12/2006 Employment: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC
	Ritesh Savla, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: A Wireless Strain Gauge Measurement System - 12/2006 Internship: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC Employment: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC
	Michael Thomas, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: DSP algorithms on a microcontroller – 8/2006 Employment: Renesas, Durham, NC
	Guru Mysore, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: Embedded Linux – 8/2006 Employment: Logitech, San Jose, CA
	Aarthi Balan, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: Software Development Processes – 5/2006 Employment: Bell Labs, Murray Hills, NJ
Tej With Jack Ganssle	Tejaswini Gadicherla, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: Communication Between a Zigbee Board and Renesas MSV30262-SKP Board Using I2C – 5/2006 Employment: SSI Embedded Systems Programming, Chicago, IL
Photo not available	Nagalakshmi Kurnella, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: Wireless Communications between Stiquito Robots– 4/2006 Employment: unknown
	Brian Newberry, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: Data Storage Solution for Digital Signal Processors- 12/2005 Internship: Nekton Research, Durham, NC Employment: Nekton Research, Durham, NC
	Arthi Varadarajan, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: Porting a Real-time Operating System to the ATmega 128L – 12/2005 Employment: unknown
Photo not available	William Snyder, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: USB2.0 Communications – 5/2005 Internship: Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC Employment: unknown
Photo not available	George Sandler, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: A High-Precision Coulomb Counter Circuit – 8/2004 Employment: unknown
Photo not available	Venkateswara R. Chitturi, MSCSE, U of Arkansas Project title: Success of an Institute on Engineering and Technology Institute for Secondary School Teachers – 8/1995 Employment: unknown

Graduated Undergraduate Research Students

Photo not available Malcolm Zapata

Area: Robotics -12/2007

Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC
Graduated: December 2007

Photo not available Mark Ford
Area: Embedded Systems

Graduated: December 2007
Employment: Thorlo, Inc., Statesville, NC

Melina Dees ( Resume)
Area: Stiquito and Embedded Systems

Internship: UVA, Blacksburg, VA
Graduated: May 2007
Employment: GE, VA

Jerry Zacharias
Area: Embedded Systems, DSP

Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC
Graduated: December 2006
Employment: IBM

Photo not available Andrew McClain

Area: Robotics

Graduated: May 2005
Employment: Michilen, Charlotte, NC

Please note: I have also worked with countless undergraduate students on Senior Design Projects.

	Benjamin Levine ( Resume) Area: Embedded Wireless Sensors and Networks (thesis) Expected Graduation: 5/2008
Photo not available	Kunal Bavishi ( Resume) Area: A Power Measurements Testbed of Embedded Wireless Systems (thesis) Expected Graduation: 5/2008
	Siddharth Ahuja ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems Expected Graduation: 12/2008
	Aby Kuruvilla ( Resume)(website) Area: TBD Expected Graduation: 5/2009
Photo not available	Sharayu Ghangrenkar ( Resume) Area: TBD Expected Graduation: 5/2009
	Malcolm Zapata ( Resume) Area: Robotics Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC Expected Graduation: 12/2009
	Jerry Zacharias ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems, DSP Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC Expected Graduation: TBD	" "
Photo not available	Mark Ford Area: Embedded Systems (Part-time) Employment: Thorlo, Inc., Statesville, NC Expected Graduation: TBD

Photo not available	Malcolm Zapata Area: Robotics -12/2007 Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC Graduated: December 2007
Photo not available	Mark Ford Area: Embedded Systems Graduated: December 2007 Employment: Thorlo, Inc., Statesville, NC
	Melina Dees ( Resume) Area: Stiquito and Embedded Systems Internship: UVA, Blacksburg, VA Graduated: May 2007 Employment: GE, VA
	Jerry Zacharias Area: Embedded Systems, DSP Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC Graduated: December 2006 Employment: IBM
Photo not available	Andrew McClain Area: Robotics Graduated: May 2005 Employment: Michilen, Charlotte, NC