Atmospheric Mitigation project: Atmospheric effects in free-space optical communications; gained familiarity with telecomm. industry standards (10GbE, SONET); did feasibility analysis, VHDL development for 10G Ethernet, Xilinx FPGA platform
Wireless Communications project: Real-time wireless multi-user detection system; worked independently to develop MUD & analyze performance in MATLAB; researched, developed, and tested List Viterbi decoder
Secure Mobile Environment project: Secure videoconferencing for government users; adapted Linux videoconferencing tool for secure videoconferencing demonstration; analyzed industry standards in videoconferencing, security, networking software
GPS Modernization project: Test modernized GPS satellites before & after launch; created extensive VHDL and MATLAB simulations for validation & verification; developed digital receiver hardware, including satellite acquisition & signal code generators
Various projects, including GPS Modernization project (development in VHDL, MATLAB, C) and Wireless Communications project (VHDL and MATLAB development)
Verification of DSP chip design using a combination of Verilog, Perl, C, assembly; chip design work in Verilog; hardware testing using oscilloscopes and HP (Agilent) logic analyzers
AWARDS
Sproull Fellowship, Univ. of Rochester, 2005
TA of the Year, Northwestern Univ. ECE Dept., 2004
Dirk Englund
