Research

I was a Research Assistant at Embedded Systems and Sensor Networks Research Group, DA-IICT. I was working on a project titled "Sensor Network testbed for Tokamak environment" which is sponsered by Board of Research in Fusion Science and Technology, India. (BRFST). I worked on this project from March 2011 to December 2011.

Publication

Darsh Shah, Vedang Patel, Abhishek Borkar and Prabhat Ranjan "Improved Speed IR Communication based Sensor Network for Tokamak In-Vessel Monitoring", 26th NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (PLASMA-2011), Patna (Under Review)

Derek Lomas, Kishan Patel, Dheeraj Medikonda, Darsh Shah, Yash Soni, Anshul Pahwa, Dixie Ching "Play Exemplars from Playpower.org" at International Academic Conference on Meaningful play, October 21-23, 2010, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Patent

Applied for patent at Patent and Trademark office, Mumbai for an invention titled “A Novel Standalone Printer Add-On Device and System”. Application number: 2753/MUM/2011.

Internships

Game Developer Intern

Playpower Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

February 2010 - September 2010

I coded for 6502 processor which was used in the video games. We made 3 games and were tested in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Mumbai. I was responsible for coding the games and integrating music in the games. I worked on NES platform.

Playpower Foundation

Research Internship

Optical Cense Project

Guide: Prof. Prabhat Ranjan

Working on Sensor Network Testbed for Tokamak Environment using IR instead of RF for a metallic conducting chamber. These sensor nodes will help in monitoring the enviornment inside the chamber. I am in charge of designing a network protocol using IR and an optical gateway for sending data out of the chamber. It is supported by National Fusion Program, Board of Research in Fusion Science.

Rural Internship

Hadoti Natural Society, Kota, India

Guide: Prof. Ganesh Devy and Mr. Rakesh Vyas (December 2009)

I worked for 4 weeks in rural areas of Kota district, visiting different villages and working on human – crocodile conflict and its amelioration measures. Spreading awareness about the conflict and interacting with different poeple helped me gain some insightful experience.

Courses

Some courses I took in my undergrad:

Embedded Systems - Digital System Arch, Robotics, Senor Networks, Embedded Hardware Design, Embedded System programming (RTOS, Kernel)

Electronics - Digital, Analog, VLSI, Control systems

Signal Processing - DSP, Analog and Digital Communication, Signal and Systems

Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, System Software, Image Processing, Computer Networks and Protocols, Software Engg

Maths - Calculus, Algebra, Probability and Statistics

Humanities - STS, Econimics, Finance, Management, Entrepreneurship