AKASH AGRAWAL 3950, Mahaila Avenue Phone: +1 650-686-9608 San Diego, CA- 92122 Email: aka006@ucsd.edu Connect: in/akash-agrawal-31851829 EDUCATION University of California, San Diego, USA Fall 2016 – Present MS in Communication Theory and Systems in ECE Dept. Anticipated June 2018

Courses: Detection Theory, Information Theory, Algebraic Coding Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India 2010 – 2014 B.E. (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering CGPA: 8.56/10 (3.42/4)

INTEREST I am seeking summer internship in Telecommunications, especially in topics like wireless communication, data networks, internet of things, error control, wireless multimedia, image and video compression. EXPERIENCE ARUBA NETWORKS, Bangalore, India Jan 2014 – Jul 2016 Worked as Software Developer

Identified and solved scale challenges of Controller and Access point by developing strong simulation tools for access points, WLAN controllers and clients

Analyzed the limitations and challenges of computer networks under heavy scale load, like loss of fragmented packets and network delay

Examined network protocols like IPv4 & IPv6 and packet formation at L2, L3 and L4 layers of TCP/IP model Applied concepts from computer architecture, socket layer programming, multi-threaded programming

ACADEMIC PROJECTS Throughput of TCP over Cognitive Radio Networks Research Intern Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India May 2013 – July 2013

Modelled a basic topology consisting of two senders, one router and one destination; simulated traffic using the tool Network Simulator (NS-2) and evaluated the output trace file by calculating throughput and probability of retransmission timeout using MATLAB

Extended the work to multiple TCP connections and different models of ON-OFF channel

Learned about TCP, Cognitive Radio, Stochastic Convergence, Markov Chain and Renewal Theory

Optimization of throughput for Cognitive Radio Networks and Femtocell Aug 2012 – Apr 2013

Challenged to maximize throughput of secondary users with minimum interference to primary users Simulated the joint resource allocation problem in MATLAB and optimized the solution using Particle Swarm

Optimization algorithms and its variants under the given real time constraints Learned about different types of users like real time and non-real time users, and their traffic demands and

transmission channel parameters Computed the throughput and it was found to be higher than the claimed maximum throughput

PUBLICATION Poojary S., Agrawal A., Gupta B., Bura A., and Sharma V., “Throughput of TCP over Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE Globecom Conference, December 6-10, 2015, San Diego, California, USA Skills and Extra-Curricular C, MATLAB, Network Simulation, Wireshark, Linux, IEEE 802.11

Actively involved in solving puzzles; was part of college Quiz Club and conducted puzzle competitions during Quark – technical festival of BITS Goa