Embedded Systems Graduate Students

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

Current PhD Students (2)
Past PhD Students (0)
Current MS-Thesis Students (3)
Past MS-Thesis Students (18)
Current MS-Project Students (7)
Past MS-Project Students (37)
Current Undergraduate Students (0)
Past Undergraduate Research Students (8)

Current Ph.D. Students

Richard McKinney (

resume)

Area: Embedded Systems and Robotics

Started Fall 2009 (after earning an MS)
Internship: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC
Employment: AREVA, Charlotte, NC
Expected Graduation: TBD

Adam Harris (

Website,

Resume)

Area: Robotics and Simulation

Started Fall 2011 (after earning an MS)

Current M.S. Students - Thesis

Vasanthsekar Shekar ( Resume)

Thesis: Lab on a Chip: Portable Microfluidic System (joint advisor: Dr. Srinivas Akella, Computer Science)

Expected Graduation: 5/2012

Shweta Gupte ( Resume)

Area: Embedded Systems

Expected Graduation: 5/2012

Steve Erdmanczyk ( Resume)
Area: Embedded Systems (thesis)
Expected Graduation:12/2012
Employment: Charlotte, NC

Current M.S. Students - Project

Tom Meiswinkel
Area: Machine Vision for Navigation

Expected Graduation: 8/2012
Employment: BeaconMedaes (Rock Hill, SC)

Walter Barfield
Area: TBD

Expected Graduation: 5/2012
Employment: NexJen Systems, Charlotte, NC.

Jeff Skelnik
Area: TBD

Expected Graduation: 8/2012

Craig Pavlich ( Resume)
Area: Embedded Systems in Automotive Controls

Expected Graduation: 8/2012
Employment: Jacobsen Textron, Charlotte, NC

Yevgeny Fridlyand ( Resume)
Area: Embedded Systems

Expected Graduation: 8/2012
Employment: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC; Defense Contractor, Atlanta, GA

Manoja P Rao ( Resume)
Area: Embedded Systems

Expected Graduation: 12/2012
Internship: Intel, CA

Sam Shue ( Resume)
Area: Embedded Systems

Expected Graduation: 12/2012

Current Undergraduate Research Students

Past PhD Students

Graduated M.S. Students - Thesis

Suraj Swami ( website, Resume)
Area of Interest: Embedded Systems, Robotics.
Thesis title: Temperature, Strain and Acoustic Emission Monitoring of a Natural Boulder Exposed to the Sun: a Test of the Efficacy of Insolation on Physical Weathering ( thesis) - 8/2011. (joint advisors: Dr. Kimberly Warren, Civil Engineering; Dr. Martha Eppes, Geology & Earth Sciences)
Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Onkar Raut (website, Resume)
Thesis title: Shape Recognition for Plane Closed Curves Using Error Model of an Elliptical Fit and Fourier Descriptors ( thesis) - 8/2011.
Employment: BNS Solutions, Boston, MA

Sunil Kumar Gurram ( Resume)
Thesis title: Implementation of Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus in an Autonomous All-Terrain Vehicle ( thesis) - 8/2011.
Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Adam Harris (Website, Resume)
Thesis title: Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Robotics Simulator ( thesis) - 5/2011

Employment: Pursuing PhD

Siddharth Ahuja ( Resume)

Thesis title: System Design and Software Architecture of a Differential Global Positioning System for an Autonomous All-Terrain-Vehicle ( thesis) - 8/2009

Employment: Tyco Electronics, Lynchburg, VA; Electronics, India

Sharayu Ghangrekar ( Resume)

Thesis title: A Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for an Autonomous Robotic Vehicle ( thesis, programs) - 5/2009

Employment: TBD

Chaitanya Misal
Thesis title: Analysis of Power Consumption of an End Device in a ZigBee Mesh Network ( thesis) - 12/2007

Internship: Digi, Boston, MA; Lester Electrical, Lincoln, NE
Employment: IPG Photonics, Boston; The MathWorks, 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; Broadcom, Inc.

Gajendra Singh, MSEE, UNC Charlotte
Thesis title: Development of Multithreaded Real-time Data Acquisition Solutions ( thesis, programs) - 8/2006

Employment: Handheld Devices, (now Honeywell) Rock Hill, SC; Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.

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

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; GE Inspection Technologies, State College, PA; Qualcomm.

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; Microsoft, Seattle, WA (contractor), Incomm Technologies, Atlanta, GA

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

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

John Cortner
Area: Autonomous ATV Steering - 12/2011

Employment: TBD

Vikram Gill ( Resume)

Area: Robotics Simulation and Control - 12/2011

Employment: TBD

Paul Mohan Das ( Resume)

Area: Controls and Embedded Systems, Avionics - 12/2011

Internship: Automotive Robotics, Inc. Stanford, NC
Employment: Mathworks, Boston, MA

Archana Subramanian ( Resume)

Area: ADCs/DACs and Audio Data on Renesas Microcontrollers - 5/2011

Employment: TBD

Aswin Ramakrishnan ( Resume)

Area: Analysis of Floating Point Operations in Microcontrollers - 12/2010

Internship: Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, CO
Employment: Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, CO

Suganya Jebasingh ( Resume)

Area: Throughput of Sensor Fusion Using Renesas RX62N and QSK62P Plus Microcontrollers - 12/2010

Employment: Intel, Santa Clara, CA

Jerry Zacharias ( Resume)
Area: Environmental Monitoring with Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles - 8/2010

Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC; Hersey Meters, Charlotte, NC
Employment: Hersey Meters, Charlotte.
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Balasubramaniya Chandrasekaran

Area: Path Calculation and Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for an Autonomous Robotic Vehicle - 5/2010

Pursuing Ph.D. at U of Mass.

Amit Kumar ( Resume)

Area: Restaurant Paging System (Embedded Systems) - 12/2009

Employment: Nexxus Lighting, Charlotte, NC

Malcolm Zapata ( Resume)

Area: Autonomous ATV controls and obstacle avoidance - 12/2009

Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC
Employment: Charlotte Medical Center Imaging, Charlotte

Kailash Toshniwal

Area: An Interrupt-based, Web-interfaced Embedded Monitoring Application in Linux for an Autonomous ATV - 12/2009

Employment: TBD

Richard McKinney (website, resume)

Area: Components of an Autonomous ATVs (Robotics and Embedded Systems) - 5/2009

Internship: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC
Current Employment: AREVA, Charlotte, NC
Currently pursuing PhD

Anagha Basole ( Resume)
Area: Wireless Communication between Autonomous Vehicles -12/2008

Employment: Sperian Protection Instrumentation, LLC (Middleton, CT)

Shrenik Mehta ( Resume)

Area: Line Extraction using LIDAR -12/2008

Employment: Austin International, Inc., York, SC

Praneeth Bajjuri ( Resume)
Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007

Internship: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Employment: Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

Sravanthi Chalasani ( Resume)
Area: Energy Harvesting for Embedded Systems - 12/2007
Paper: Sravanthi Chalasani and James M. Conrad, "A Survey of Energy Harvesting Sources," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville, AL, April 2008, pp. 442-447.

Internship: Mentor Graphics, OR
Employment: Mentor Graphics, OR

Santhosh Ramani ( Resume)
Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007

Current Area: Embedded System design, Embedded Controls, Automation and Robotics.

Internship: Sapphire Technical Solutions, Charlotte, NC
Employment: MicroBlade, Inc, Madison, WI

Ashwin Subramaniam ( Resume)
Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007

Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Gurunath Athalye ( Resume)
Area: Educational Board for Stepper Motor Interface -8/2007

Internship: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC
Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA; Motorola Mobility, Pune, India

Srilekha Chitti
Area: Performance Analysis of an RTOS - 8/2007

Internship: Bellsouth, Raleigh, NC
Employment: Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore

Prikanka Krishna

Area: Performance Analysis of an RTOS - 8/2007

Internship: Bellsouth; T-Mobile
Employment: State of Michigan-Bridges Project

Sushant Sengupta
Area: A Wireless Strain Gauge Measurement System - 5/2007

Internship: Nokia, San Diego, CA
Employment: Verizon, Cedar Rapids, IA

Christina Warren
Area: Embedded Systems Micro File System - 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: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC; Family Dollar (IT, Headquarters), Charlotte, NC
Employment: Family Dollar, Charlotte, NC; Lowes Companies, Inc., Mooresville, NC.

Asma Khizer
Area: USB Solutions for Small Embedded System Applications - 3/2007

Employment: Embedded Systems and Software, Inc. (Peoria, IL)

Venkat Dronamraju
Project title: Educational Board for Stepper Motor Interface - 12/2006

Employment: Handheld Devices (Now Honeywell), Rock Hill, SC

Ritesh Savla, MSEE, UNC Charlotte
Project title: A Wireless Strain Gauge Measurement System - 12/2006

Internship: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC
Employment: Evergreen Associates (Wachovia), Charlotte, NC, now Wells Capital Management, Menomonee Falls, WI

Michael with Mythical TV personalities
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; Flextronics, San Jose, CA.; Apple, Inc., Cupertino, 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

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: iRobot (formerly 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

William Snyder, MSEE, UNC Charlotte
Project title: USB2.0 Communications – 5/2005

Internship: Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC
Employment: unknown

George Sandler, MSEE, UNC Charlotte
Project title: A High-Precision Coulomb Counter Circuit – 8/2004

Employment: Austin International, Inc., York, SC

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

John Wilkes ( Resume)

Area: LabVIEW and Robot Control

Graduated: May 2011
Employment: Intern, NexJen Systems, Charlotte, NC.

Jesse Bikman ( Resume)

Area: Machine Vision and Control

Graduated: May 2011
Employment: Pursuing MS in Marine Science, UNC Chapel Hill

Kristen Reband ( Resume)
Area: Stiquito and Embedded Systems

Graduated: May 2008
Employment: Huntsville, AL

Malcolm Zapata

Area: Robotics

Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC
Graduated: BS: December 2007, MS: December 2009
Employment: CMC Imaging, Charlotte

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, SC

Jerry Zacharias
Area: Embedded Systems, DSP

Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC
Graduated: BS: December 2006, MS: summer 2010
Employment: Hersey Meaters, Charlotte, NC.

Andrew McClain

Area: Robotics

Graduated: May 2005
Employment: Michelin, Charlotte, NC

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

This page maintained by James Conrad. Updated 2011-08-14
Copyright 1994-2011 James M. Conrad. All rights reserved.

	Vasanthsekar Shekar ( Resume) Thesis: Lab on a Chip: Portable Microfluidic System (joint advisor: Dr. Srinivas Akella, Computer Science) Expected Graduation: 5/2012
	Shweta Gupte ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems Expected Graduation: 5/2012
	Steve Erdmanczyk ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems (thesis) Expected Graduation:12/2012 Employment: Charlotte, NC

	Tom Meiswinkel Area: Machine Vision for Navigation Expected Graduation: 8/2012 Employment: BeaconMedaes (Rock Hill, SC)
	Walter Barfield Area: TBD Expected Graduation: 5/2012 Employment: NexJen Systems, Charlotte, NC.
	Jeff Skelnik Area: TBD Expected Graduation: 8/2012
	Craig Pavlich ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems in Automotive Controls Expected Graduation: 8/2012 Employment: Jacobsen Textron, Charlotte, NC
	Yevgeny Fridlyand ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems Expected Graduation: 8/2012 Employment: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC; Defense Contractor, Atlanta, GA
	Manoja P Rao ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems Expected Graduation: 12/2012 Internship: Intel, CA
	Sam Shue ( Resume) Area: Embedded Systems Expected Graduation: 12/2012

	Suraj Swami ( website, Resume) Area of Interest: Embedded Systems, Robotics. Thesis title: Temperature, Strain and Acoustic Emission Monitoring of a Natural Boulder Exposed to the Sun: a Test of the Efficacy of Insolation on Physical Weathering ( thesis) - 8/2011. (joint advisors: Dr. Kimberly Warren, Civil Engineering; Dr. Martha Eppes, Geology & Earth Sciences) Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
	Onkar Raut (website, Resume) Thesis title: Shape Recognition for Plane Closed Curves Using Error Model of an Elliptical Fit and Fourier Descriptors ( thesis) - 8/2011. Employment: BNS Solutions, Boston, MA
	Sunil Kumar Gurram ( Resume) Thesis title: Implementation of Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus in an Autonomous All-Terrain Vehicle ( thesis) - 8/2011. Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
	Adam Harris (Website, Resume) Thesis title: Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Robotics Simulator ( thesis) - 5/2011 Employment: Pursuing PhD
	Siddharth Ahuja ( Resume) Thesis title: System Design and Software Architecture of a Differential Global Positioning System for an Autonomous All-Terrain-Vehicle ( thesis) - 8/2009 Employment: Tyco Electronics, Lynchburg, VA; Electronics, India
	Sharayu Ghangrekar ( Resume) Thesis title: A Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for an Autonomous Robotic Vehicle ( thesis, programs) - 5/2009 Employment: TBD
	Chaitanya Misal Thesis title: Analysis of Power Consumption of an End Device in a ZigBee Mesh Network ( thesis) - 12/2007 Internship: Digi, Boston, MA; Lester Electrical, Lincoln, NE Employment: IPG Photonics, Boston; The MathWorks, 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; Broadcom, Inc.
	Gajendra Singh, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Thesis title: Development of Multithreaded Real-time Data Acquisition Solutions ( thesis, programs) - 8/2006 Employment: Handheld Devices, (now Honeywell) Rock Hill, SC; Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.
	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
	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; GE Inspection Technologies, State College, PA; Qualcomm.
	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; Microsoft, Seattle, WA (contractor), Incomm Technologies, Atlanta, GA
	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
	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)

	John Cortner Area: Autonomous ATV Steering - 12/2011 Employment: TBD
	Vikram Gill ( Resume) Area: Robotics Simulation and Control - 12/2011 Employment: TBD
	Paul Mohan Das ( Resume) Area: Controls and Embedded Systems, Avionics - 12/2011 Internship: Automotive Robotics, Inc. Stanford, NC Employment: Mathworks, Boston, MA
	Archana Subramanian ( Resume) Area: ADCs/DACs and Audio Data on Renesas Microcontrollers - 5/2011 Employment: TBD
	Aswin Ramakrishnan ( Resume) Area: Analysis of Floating Point Operations in Microcontrollers - 12/2010 Internship: Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, CO Employment: Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, CO
	Suganya Jebasingh ( Resume) Area: Throughput of Sensor Fusion Using Renesas RX62N and QSK62P Plus Microcontrollers - 12/2010 Employment: Intel, Santa Clara, CA
	Jerry Zacharias ( Resume) Area: Environmental Monitoring with Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles - 8/2010 Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC; Hersey Meters, Charlotte, NC Employment: Hersey Meters, Charlotte.	" "
	Balasubramaniya Chandrasekaran Area: Path Calculation and Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for an Autonomous Robotic Vehicle - 5/2010 Pursuing Ph.D. at U of Mass.
	Amit Kumar ( Resume) Area: Restaurant Paging System (Embedded Systems) - 12/2009 Employment: Nexxus Lighting, Charlotte, NC
	Malcolm Zapata ( Resume) Area: Autonomous ATV controls and obstacle avoidance - 12/2009 Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC Employment: Charlotte Medical Center Imaging, Charlotte
	Kailash Toshniwal Area: An Interrupt-based, Web-interfaced Embedded Monitoring Application in Linux for an Autonomous ATV - 12/2009 Employment: TBD
	Richard McKinney (website, resume) Area: Components of an Autonomous ATVs (Robotics and Embedded Systems) - 5/2009 Internship: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC Current Employment: AREVA, Charlotte, NC Currently pursuing PhD
	Anagha Basole ( Resume) Area: Wireless Communication between Autonomous Vehicles -12/2008 Employment: Sperian Protection Instrumentation, LLC (Middleton, CT)
	Shrenik Mehta ( Resume) Area: Line Extraction using LIDAR -12/2008 Employment: Austin International, Inc., York, SC
	Praneeth Bajjuri ( Resume) Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007 Internship: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA Employment: Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
	Sravanthi Chalasani ( Resume) Area: Energy Harvesting for Embedded Systems - 12/2007 Paper: Sravanthi Chalasani and James M. Conrad, "A Survey of Energy Harvesting Sources," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville, AL, April 2008, pp. 442-447. Internship: Mentor Graphics, OR Employment: Mentor Graphics, OR
	Santhosh Ramani ( Resume) Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007 Current Area: Embedded System design, Embedded Controls, Automation and Robotics. Internship: Sapphire Technical Solutions, Charlotte, NC Employment: MicroBlade, Inc, Madison, WI
	Ashwin Subramaniam ( Resume) Area: Power Measurements of Embedded Wireless Systems - 12/2007 Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
	Gurunath Athalye ( Resume) Area: Educational Board for Stepper Motor Interface -8/2007 Internship: Handheld Devices, Rock Hill, SC Employment: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA; Motorola Mobility, Pune, India
	Srilekha Chitti Area: Performance Analysis of an RTOS - 8/2007 Internship: Bellsouth, Raleigh, NC Employment: Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore
	Prikanka Krishna Area: Performance Analysis of an RTOS - 8/2007 Internship: Bellsouth; T-Mobile Employment: State of Michigan-Bridges Project
	Sushant Sengupta Area: A Wireless Strain Gauge Measurement System - 5/2007 Internship: Nokia, San Diego, CA Employment: Verizon, Cedar Rapids, IA
	Christina Warren Area: Embedded Systems Micro File System - 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: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC; Family Dollar (IT, Headquarters), Charlotte, NC Employment: Family Dollar, Charlotte, NC; Lowes Companies, Inc., Mooresville, NC.
	Asma Khizer Area: USB Solutions for Small Embedded System Applications - 3/2007 Employment: Embedded Systems and Software, Inc. (Peoria, IL)
	Venkat Dronamraju Project title: Educational Board for Stepper Motor Interface - 12/2006 Employment: Handheld Devices (Now Honeywell), Rock Hill, SC
	Ritesh Savla, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: A Wireless Strain Gauge Measurement System - 12/2006 Internship: Wachovia, Charlotte, NC Employment: Evergreen Associates (Wachovia), Charlotte, NC, now Wells Capital Management, Menomonee Falls, WI
Michael with Mythical TV personalities	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; Flextronics, San Jose, CA.; Apple, Inc., Cupertino, 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
	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: iRobot (formerly 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
	William Snyder, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: USB2.0 Communications – 5/2005 Internship: Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC Employment: unknown
	George Sandler, MSEE, UNC Charlotte Project title: A High-Precision Coulomb Counter Circuit – 8/2004 Employment: Austin International, Inc., York, SC
	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

	John Wilkes ( Resume) Area: LabVIEW and Robot Control Graduated: May 2011 Employment: Intern, NexJen Systems, Charlotte, NC.
	Jesse Bikman ( Resume) Area: Machine Vision and Control Graduated: May 2011 Employment: Pursuing MS in Marine Science, UNC Chapel Hill
	Kristen Reband ( Resume) Area: Stiquito and Embedded Systems Graduated: May 2008 Employment: Huntsville, AL
	Malcolm Zapata Area: Robotics Internship: Zapata Engineering, Charlotte, NC Graduated: BS: December 2007, MS: December 2009 Employment: CMC Imaging, Charlotte
	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, SC
	Jerry Zacharias Area: Embedded Systems, DSP Internship: IBM, Charlotte, NC Graduated: BS: December 2006, MS: summer 2010 Employment: Hersey Meaters, Charlotte, NC.
	Andrew McClain Area: Robotics Graduated: May 2005 Employment: Michelin, Charlotte, NC