• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, M.S. candidate, Electrical Engineering (August 2006 - present)
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India, B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, (July 2000 - May 2004)

• Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radio
• UWB based Secure RFID
• RF Integrated circuits

• Founding member of startup company in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Elfsys Embedded Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Technology Business Incubation Unit, IIT Delhi, India (June, 2004 - July, 2006).
  • Member of a team engaged in the development of a low-power networking stack and applications for WSN. Worked on simulation of a proprietary MAC protocol for WSN and development of application/debugging software for WSN based industrial and home-monitoring applications. Also, led the team involved in design and development of the digital processing leg of an electro-optical correlator, a project executed for (Instruments Research & Development Establishmen) IRDE Dehradun. The project involved development of high-speed digital signal processing system using Sundance's multi-FPGA (Virtex-IV & Vitex-II Pro) platform.
• Intern, Virtual Wire Technologies, New Delhi, India (May 2003 - July 2003)
  • Implemented components of Asynchronous Speech Scrambler System for HF Communications. Developed and demonstrated transmitter side scrambling and receiver side descrambling at voice sampling rate of 44.1 KHz, on Xess's Virtex XCV800 FPGA development platform.

Publications

• Vipul Chawla and D. S. Ha, "An Overview of Passive RFID", IEEE Applications & Practice Magazine, pp. 11-17, September, 2007.

Relevant Courses

• RFIC Design
• Analog IC Design
• Advanced VLSI Design
• VLSI Technology & Design
• Software Radios
• Digital Communications
• Electromagnetic Waves

• Gym, Badminton, Exploring the Creator and His Creations – Nature, Traveling, esp Driving
• Then being an engineering grad student, I have got some nerdy instincts like reading about Sci-fi  stuffs and Tech magazines, System Administration and Computer Hardware
• Driving, Hiking & Traveling