Tapas Mandal

1315 Lawson Street Apt#2 Houston TX 77023, Cell: 806-401-3038, E-mail: tapasspb@gmail.com Education:
Master of Science (Thesis) in Electrical Engineering Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, TX Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Technology, Technical Physics Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia (SPbSPU), Saint Petersburg, Russia; Thesis- Investigation of surface waves in dielectric layer with screen in Integral Phased Array Antennas May13 CGPA:3.6/4 Dec08 Blue Diploma(~84%)

Skills
Computer and software: Cadence Spectre, ADS, Cadence Virtuoso, AWR MWO, LabVIEW, C, Maple, MATLAB, Mathcad, Mathematica, MultiSim, PSpice, Origin, TINA, Cadence,Code Composer Studio, good statistical data analyzing ability. Test Equipments: Programmable Load, Multimeter, Frequency Synthesizers, Venable frequency response Analyzer, Oscilloscope,ATE(PXI) Languages known: Fluent in Bengali(native), Russian and English Hands on training and experience: THz Spectroscopy-Menlo K15 System, Photolithography-ABM Inc,ICP Dry Etching-Oxford Plasmalab80 Plus,Wet Etching,Hall Voltage Measurement-MMR Tech,Dicing Machine-DAD 2H/6T,Sputtering-INFICON Deposition Controller IC/5 and Thermionics,Spin Coating-Headway PWM32 Controller Spinner (Semiconductor processing and characterization)

Research Experience:
Terahertz Spectroscopy of VO2 grown on a-plane sapphire: Masters Thesis,Texas Tech University,Fall'12-Spring13 Determined different properties of VO2/a-plane from THz measurements and compared with VO2 on other planes Designed experiment and calculated birefringence & THz amplitude variation due to substrate related birefringence Made a program in MathCAD to calculate optical conductivity and refractive index at different temperatures. Tools used:-Menlo K15 system, Mathcad, Matlab, Origin A major contributor to NSF supported project "Electrically Controlled Metal-Insulator Transition and Its Terahertz Applications "

Graduate Academic Experience:

Self-biased operational amplifier,Fall'12,Texas Tech University Designed, simulated and made layout using Cadence AMI06 CMOS process. Checked DRC and LVS matching. Did performance evaluation in worst corners by variation of design parameters. Tools Used- Cadence Spectre, Cadence Virtuoso DC-DC Buck Converter(Step Down),Fall'12,Texas Tech University Did trade-off study, Simulated and selected components, designed compensation circuit, Programmed TI MSP430 microcontroller to generate PWM signal according to feedback and assembled PCB Wrote detailed test plan, performed load regulation, line regulation, load transient, line transient, efficiency, ripple voltage, phase and gain measurement Tools used:-PSpice, Matlab, Maple, Orcad, oscilloscopes, Venable gain and phase analyzer, programmable load, multimeters and power supplies Speech Signal Recovery,Fall'11,Texas Tech University Built Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters for three different noisy signals, using fdatool in MATLAB. Analyzed frequency spectrum of signals to determine the cut off frequency for each. 3 Band Equalizer,Fall'11,Texas Tech University Designed Low Pass, High Pass and Band Pass, FIR and IIR Filters in MATLAB. Implemented the filters in parallel to obtain All Pass filter. Tools used-MATLAB's fdatool Jigsaw Puzzle solver using Matlab,Fall'11,Texas Tech University This project involved solving a scattered jigsaw puzzle using matlab. Inputs was an image of a scattered puzzle of different pieces. Applied segmentation, connected Component analysis, shape analysis and then matched the pieces based on shape information and intensity information. Output was a gathered image of a solved jigsaw puzzle. Tools used-MatLab Medical Imaging project,Fall'11,Texas Tech University Used 2D Power Cepstrum technique to find the shift among the images Reported a surface plot of disparity map. Calculated the error between the disparity map and ground truth. Tools Used:-MatLab Leadership: Event Secretary: Association of Bangladesh students and Scholars,lubbock, TTU ;International Student's Association, Spb, Russia

Work Experience:
Research Associate, Nano Tech Center, Texas Tech University 7/1/2013-now working to develop an algorithm in MatLab to calculate experimental data obtained from THz Spectroscopy Teaching Assistant, Intro to ECE course, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University(TTU) Fall'12 Conducted demonstration class of 80 undergraduate students and helped them to solve problems of Matlab and Basic Electronic Circuits. Graded classroom tests and homeworks. Tutor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Physics, Texas Tech University(TTU) Spring'12 Helped to solve problems of Basic Algebra, Calculus, Geometry and physics courses of undergraduate students Technical coordinator and engineer, Mediacell.bd Ltd Dhaka, Bangladesh March,2009-May,2011 Helped to coordination, communication, translation of technical documents from Russian to English.and installation and maintenance of floor mounted deposit machines for payment of electricity, water and gas bill, loading mobile sim cards, depositing bank cheques, notes

Awards and Honours:

Russian Government Scholarship for Bangladeshi Students Scholarship from Russia-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce, Moscow. Electrical Engineering Department Scholarship of Texas Tech University Fundamental of Engineering Certification by NCEES (Dec/2003-Dec/2008) (August/2004-June/2005) (Fall 2011-Spring 2013)

Related Courseworks: Medical Imaging, Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, Analog IC, Microwave Solid State Circuits, DC-DC Converter
Design and test, Plasmonics and Metamaterials, Nanophotonics (Graduate)