Consultant Profiles

Mayank Agrawal

Mayank Agrawal

Mr. Agrawal holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication from the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His areas of study included computer networking, wireless sensor networks, computer network programming and algorithm analysis. Mr. Agrawal has previously worked for Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Ltd., India, where he performed equipment testing, and design and implementation of circuits on printed circuit boards. Mr. Agrawal has also been an intern at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, where he simulated communication systems using MATLAB.

Kevin Cantu

Kevin Cantu

Mr. Cantu holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, Iowa. Mr. Cantu's areas of specialization include signal processing, operating systems, networking, and databases. Mr. Cantu has developed network monitoring applications for UNIX systems and engineered Ethernet and IP networks for Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Cantu is the recipient of a National Merit scholarship and is a member of the IEEE. During his undegraduate years, Mr. Cantu assisted researchers studying organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and also mentored underclassmen through the honors program.

Ravi Sekhar Cherukuri

Ravi Sekhar Cherukuri

Mr. Cherukuri holds a B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani), India and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University at Ames. Mr. Cherukuri's areas of specialization include wireless communications, signal processing, software engineering, computer networking, databases, and embedded systems. He has conducted research and development in various fields of electrical engineering including wireless communications and signal processing. Mr. Cherukuri has co-authored IEEE publications in the area of high-rate wireless communications, and taught labs for several electrical and electronics courses at Iowa State University.

Mr. Cherukuri has also worked for Motorola in the wireless operations group where he developed a software simulator to test products. He has also worked at Home Robots, Inc., where he developed embedded software. Mr. Cherukuri has significant experience in the analysis of complex hardware and software systems.

Nitin Kataria

Dr. Nitin Kataria

Nitin Kataria holds a B.E. (with honors) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India (formerly, Delhi Institute of Technology, India) and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Kataria successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Computer Engineering also from the University of California, Santa Barbara in July 2009. His areas of specialization include Advanced Computer Architecture, Hardware/Software Co-Design, VLSI, Embedded Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, and Real-Time Embedded Sysetms. He has worked at STMicroelectronics, Tality LP., BOSCH and has served as a hardware and software consultant at numerous other companies. Dr. Kataria is a recipient of the "Best Idea" award at the Annual Business Plan Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Kataria has also taught courses in Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Andrew Mayo

Dr. Andrew Mayo

Andrew Mayo holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy, an M.A. in Electrical and Computer Engineering all from Rice University. Dr. Mayo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering also from Rice University in November 2007. Dr. Mayo has conducted research in numerous technology areas including control theory, signal processing and communication theory. Dr. Mayo is well versed in numerous programming languages including C, C++, Java, Scheme, Matlab and Fortran. Dr. Mayo has significant experience in the analysis of telecommunications infrastructure, computer telephony systems, Interactive Voice Response Systems, etc.

Chakrapani Ramasundaram

Chakrapani Ramasundaram

Mr. Ramasundaram holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from the Peoples Education Society Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His areas of study included computer networking, wireless networking, and operating systems. Mr. Ramasundaram has prior industry experience designing and developing application software as a Software Engineer for Tata Consultancy Services, India. During his graduate studies, Mr. Ramasundaram developed a protocol for wireless data transfer between two computers, and researched performance issues relating to TCP over IEEE 802.11 for various wireless network topologies. Mr. Ramasundaram has also been involved in the design and development of a distributed Peer to Peer File sharing system.

John Taylor

John Taylor

Mr. Taylor holds a Masters degree in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Masters degree in Computer Science from West Coast University. Mr. Taylor has over twenty years experience as a computer programmer, systems analyst, database and systems administrator and computer scientist. Mr. Taylor's areas of specialization include server and network management, system automation, backup and recovery, database management, and design. Mr. Taylor has worked for many years for companies such as Hughes Aircraft Company, Raytheon, and Computer Sciences Corporation. During his career, Mr. Taylor has worked on diverse projects including an automated hospital laboratory system, a complex database system for production control at an aerospace corporation, and building, configuring and maintaining workgroup and system servers in Novell, UNIX and Microsoft environments.

Leeger Yu

Leeger Yu

Mr. Yu holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Mr. Yu's areas of specialization include wireless communications, sensor networks, digital communications, and computer networks. As a Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) at UMCP, Mr. Yu conducted research in various topics including distributed detection, neighbor discovery, energy-efficient data fusion, secure wireless access, and multicast in ad-hoc networks. Mr. Yu has also worked for United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) as a summer intern, where he conducted field experiments of Crossbow Mote sensor networks, investigated network reliability issues, and developed a network simulator for the Crossbow XMesh network.