Vasudev Lal
1237 Island Drive, Apt# 201, Ann Arbor, MI - 48105
734-476-9862
vasudev@umich.edu

Education

Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ,MI
Focus Area: Optics and Photonics, 7.513/9 G.P.A

December,2008

B.E. Degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (Previously known as Delhi Institute of Technology)
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Graduated First Class with distinction, Percentage: 76.36%

May,2007

Relevant Graduate Coursework

• Relevant Electromagnetic Theory/Optics courses:
  Modern Optics, Optical Waves in Crystals, Lasers, Optical Fiber Communications, Ultrafast Optics
• Relevant semiconductor related courses:
  High Speed Transistors, Solid State Device Lab, Condensed Matter Physics, Solid State Physics
• Fundamental Physics courses:    

  Applied Quantum Mechanics I and II, Quantum Optics

Conference Publications

• Dhananjay V. Gadre, Vasudev Lal, Sulochana Dhar, Anshul Kumar, “epaper”, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6910, 69100W, Photonics West, San Jose, CA, 2008

Experience

• January 2008 – Present: Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. I have been working in Prof. Duncan Steel’s Quantum Optoelectronics Lab and have been involved in nonlinear optical spectroscopy experiments of various nanostructures like III-IV semiconductor quantum dots and carbon nanotubes.
• July 2007 – August 2007: Internship at Kritikal Solutions, a spin-off from the Computer Science department of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. I was responsible for conducting a feasibility study and simulation for a system that transmits graphical and voice data over an analog phone line.
• June 2006 – August 2006: Internship at Nsys Inc. I was involved with developing a verification suit in Verilog for the SPI-4 network protocol that is used in OC-192 optical communication schemes.
• August 2005 – May 2007: Worked on digital system and embedded system design and development at the Center for Electronic Design and Technology (CEDT), University of Delhi, India. I maintain videos, pictures and brief descriptions of projects I worked on during this period on my website.                             
• June 2005 – August 2005: Internship at the Digital Hardware Design Lab at the Computer Science Department of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India where I worked on a project titled ‘Door Messaging System’.

Skills

• Programming experience in C, C++, Java, Assembly Language, Matlab, Mathematica
• Over two years experience in setting up complex optical experiments, some of which involved working at liquid helium temperatures (4K).
• Semester long experience in UV lithography, reactive-ion etching and chemical vapor deposition, learnt as part of a graduate course in the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, UofM.

Relevant Undergraduate Coursework

• Digital Integrated Circuits I and II, Linear Integrated Circuits, Circuits and Systems, Control Systems I and II,  Microprocessors, Computer Aided Design, Electronics I and II, Analog and Digital Communications

Awards and Achievements

• Full tuition waver for graduate studies awarded as a GSRA by the EECS department of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since Jan 2008.
• Won the “Distinctive Excellence” award at the AVR Design Contest 2006 for designing and developing “Talk Zombie”, an ATMega169 microcontroller based multilingual talking device.
• Tuition fee waiver from Delhi University for excellent performance in academics for the year 2003-2004.

Website

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~vasudev/projectHub/