Sachin P Namboodiri

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I am a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNLV.

Office location: SEB 4219 (Office hours: Please send me an email so that we will fix a time to meet)

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Area of interests

Analog and digital circuits, biomedical circuits and embedded systems

Skills

EDA tools:  Cadence Virtuoso, ModelSIM, Xilinx ISE
HDLs: Verilog, VHDL
Packages/Simulation Tools: MATLAB, NI Multisim, LTspice, and Labview
Programming Languages: C/C++
FPGA Boards: Cyclone IV (Altera families) and Spartan3E(Xilinx families)
Architectures and Hardware:  PIC16F877A microcontroller, W65C02 processor, USB protocol and architecture

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering                                                                               December 2020

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Master of Science in Computer Engineering,                                                         December 2015
Villanova University, USA.

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering,                 May 2012
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India.

Projects

LiDAR Readout IC

Photon counting circuit test chip

FTD Chip

TDC chip

TIA chip

Publications

· Namboodiri, S. P., Arteaga, G., Skelly, J., Mata-carlos, F., Roy, A., and Baker, R. J., "A Current-Mode Photon Counting Circuit for Long-Range LiDAR Applications," IEEE 63^rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August 9-12, pp. 146-149 2020. 

· Vinayaka, V., Namboodiri, S. P., Roy, A., and Baker, R. J., "Segmented Digital SiPM," IEEE 62^nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August 4-7, pp. 1118-1121, 2019.

· Mellott, J. K., Monahan, E., Vinayaka, V., Namboodiri, S. P., Roy, A., and Baker, R. J., "Variable Fast Transient Digitizer," IEEE 62^nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August 4-7, pp. 125-128, 2019. (poster)

· Vinayaka, V., Namboodiri, S. P., Abdalla, Kerstetter, B., Mata-Carlos, F., Senda, D., Skelly, J., Roy, A., and Baker, R. J., "Monolithic 8x8 SiPM with 4-bit Current-Mode Flash ADC with Tunable Dynamic Range," Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), pp. 57-62, Tysons Corner, VA, May 9-11, 2019. 

· Namboodiri, S. P., Zhu, H., Khuon, L., Van der Spiegel, J., and Caverly, R., “Low Cutoff Frequency Integrated Neural Amplifiers Using Symmetrical Pseudo Resistors”, in the proceeding of 42nd Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Binghamton, NY, April 5-7,2016.

Courses as Teaching Assistant

EE420/ECG 620 – Analog IC Design (Spring 2020)

EE220 – Circuits I (Fall 2018)

EE361 – Signals and Systems II (Spring 2018)

EE421 – Digital IC design (Fall 2017)

EE421L – Digital electronics lab (Fall 2017)

EE320 – Engineering electronics I (Spring 2017)

EE450L – Solid state electronics lab (Spring 2017)

EE360 – Signals and Systems I (Fall 2016)

EE221 – Circuits II (Fall 2016)

Experience

Research Assistant                                                                                                January 2014 - December2015
Villanova University and University of Pennsylvania


Electrical Engineering Summer Intern                                                                    May 2014 - August 2014
Florida Research Instrumets, FL, USA

Research Assistant                                                                                                August 2012 - July2013
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India


Hobbies

Reading    (favourite book: The Fountainhead)

Movies     (favourite movie: The Shawshank Redemption)

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