Guruvenkata receives Best Paper Award at Wireless Innovation Forum Conference

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Vivek Sriram Yenamandra Guruvenkata
Vivek Sriram Yenamandra Guruvenkata, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, was selected as having one of the highest ranking papers at the 2011 Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio (SDR’11-WInnComm).

Guruvenkata’s paper, “A Radio Architecture Compliant with the ECMA-392 Standard for Personal White Space Devices” was marked “Best of R&D Track." In addition, he received a travel grant and accommodations to attend the event. Mohammed Ismail, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Guruvenkata’s advisor, is the co-author of the paper

Guruvenkata conducts research in the department’s Analog VLSI Lab. He has been on leave working as a research assistant with the Semiconductor Research Center, KUSTAR, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates since September 2011. Guruvenkata’s current research focus is on the design and implementation of robust low power fully integrated CMOS radio transceivers for next generation wideband cognitive radio systems and on smart circuit design solutions for RF spectrum sensing. He graduated with BE (Honors) in electrical engineering, from BITS-Pilani in 2009. He worked at Cypress Semiconductors, Bangalore (2009-10) as an applications engineer responsible for support and development of USB-based applications.

SDR’11-WInnComm, held November 29-December 2 in Washington, DC, is the only event devoted to the advancement of reconfigurable radio technologies from research through deployment.