Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · India

• A membership-based community initiative started with the mission to close the gender gap and increase diversity in 6G related careers. We aim to provide inspiration, support and education to women who aspire to get into 6G related roles.

Mar 2020 – Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, India and San Francisco, United States · Hybrid

• Started as a small, unique COVID learning initiative during the first lockdown in early 2020, which eventually led to the development of a first-of-its-kind Ethical, Responsible, Transparent and Sustainable LLM that was meant to redefine how Gen-Z students learn and showcase their skills. The LLM was acquired by a leading technology firm in early 2024 - even before its public launch.
• While building the LLM, we empowered over 5,000 students across 23 countries to upskill through super affordable initiatives and learning series from May 2020 to March 2024.

Oct 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, India · Hybrid

• With close to a decade of experience, I have worked on over 220 major R&D projects for more than 100 clients worldwide, including startups, telecom firms, research universities, labs, and government projects. I have contributed in various capacities as a high-impact R&D consultant, architect, and advisor in AI and wireless communications, particularly 5G and 6G.
• Most of my clients come from India, the United States of America, Japan, Germany, UK, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Greece, UAE, Israel, Singapore and a few other countries.

Feb 2017 – Aug 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• ▪ Examined the effects of precipitation, fog and atmospheric gaseous absorption on millimeter waves using MATLAB, and proved the feasibility of using millimeter Waves (28GHz and 38GHz) in 5G & beyond systems.
• ▪ Performance of various Pathloss models were evaluated both for LoS and N-LoS scenarios in dense-urban test environment.
• ▪ Extended the results to analyze the data rates and coverage range supported by millimeter waves when used in 5G Networks under the supervision of Dr. Arathi R Shankar at the RF & Advanced Wireless Communication Research Lab set up at BMSCE in collaboration with Keysight Technologies.

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos · On-site

• Evaluated an analytical model designed to investigate the Colorless, Directionless and Congestion less (CDC) features of a Reconfigurable Optical add/drop multiplexer(ROADM) used in Optical WDM Networks, under the supervision of Dr. Rajappa Papanna Reddy (Emeritus Professor of Purdue University -NorthWest Indiana, United States of America).

Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• CDOT is the Telecom Technology R&D Centre established by Government of India. As a trainee, my major responsibilities were to translate Circuit Board level and System level functional specifications to comprehensive test procedures.
• Major Project - MAX-NG for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (Indian state-owned telecom company).
• I was responsible for performing both Circuit Board level and System level testing, and debugging of New generation network gateway(NGTJ), PSTN Interface card, Ethernet twisted pair(ETPJ) aggregator, SDCN VOIP Customer premises equipment, ANRAX controller, Enhanced remote time switches and multiplexers. I gained high proficiency in understanding the test procedures, it's underlying principles and possible testing conditions.