Contact Information Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: (650) 440-3xxx E-mail: jeraj4 ATT gmail ... com Objective A challenging Ph.D.-level electrical engineering position that utilizes my exper tise in digital signal processing (DSP) and wireless communications. Summary Six years of professional experience in research & design of DSP, communication systems (for PHY layer), including C++, Matlab modeling & simulation of fixed-po int DSP systems Signal processing and feedback systems (with solid knowledge of related VLSI arc hitectures) Adaptive filters (Wiener, LMS, TDLMS, RLS) Nonlinear signal processing (polynomial signal processing, Volterra filters etc. ) Equalization of linear and nonlinear systems: pre- and post-distortion compensat ion of solid-state circuits (power amplifiers, A/D converters) Multirate signal processing Background in basic control theory concepts combined with hands on experience Communications (wireless) Experience in designing baseband transmitters and receivers (synchronizers, filt ers, DDCs) Familiarity with 3G & 4G beyond cellular standards (LTE, WiMAX), OFDM, WiFi, sof tware radio Hands-on experience with channel error correction coding Versed in lab equipment: oscilloscopes, spectrum and logic analyzers, signal gen erators,... Strong analytical, problem solving & debugging, verbal/written communication, pr esentation and technical documentation skills Education University of Utah ............ . Salt Lake City, UT Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering May 2005 Dissertation: Adaptive Estimation and Equalization of Nonlinear Systems. Emphasi s on nonlinear signal processing: Developed algorithms for identification of non linear systems in a non-stationary environment, Inversion of nonlinear systems. Applied the developed theory to correction of real-world channels. University of Ljubljana ............. .. Ljubljana, Slovenia Master of Science in Electrical Engineering February 1999 University of Ljubljana ................ Ljubljana, Slovenia Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering September 1996 Employment History Company Witheld. .......... ....... ................Current Wireless communications, channel equalizers, channel coding (puncturing, interl eavers) Optichron, Inc.... ..... ............ ......Fremont, CA 2006 - 2009 Systems engineering: Responsible for specification, architecture/design and real ization of baseband system for predistortion linearization of power amplifiers i n base stations DSP performance and cost analysis Designed and implemented several subsystems: Carrier synchronizer (phase detector, loop filter, NCO, downconverter), sin gene ration, adaptive equalizers, interpolation filters, Hilbert filter, sub-LSB DC r emoval, timing recovery, Farrow filter, IQ imbalance compensation, Automatic Gai n Control (AGC), Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) measurement block, power/gain meter s, CORDIC,... Fixed-point models for above subsystems in C++ and Matlab to (1) perform block a nd system level simulations, (2) deliver bit-exact test vectors for IC engineers to match with Verilog Chip/Subsystems designed and verified to work as a modulation agnostic system th at can be used in base stations for GSM, provisional 3GPP multicarrier GSM, WiMA X, WCDMA, TD-SDCMA, EDGE etc. networks Channel modeling (complete RF channels including nonlinearities and analog imper fections) Crest Factor Reduction (CFR) for broadband communication signals Debugged both DSP algorithms and DSP implementation - Implemented solutions System upbring and debug on Xilinx FPGA board level Silicon testing including mixed-signal issues Agilent Technologies, Agilent Labs ............. Palo Alto, CA June 2005 â December 2005 Signal processing distortion correction in high speed, high precision time-inter leaved A/D converters. Increased SFDR from -35 dBc to better than -72 dBc in a 1 2-bit time-interleaved ADC using DSP techniques (significantly outperforming Ana log Devices/Vcorp system). Two patents pending University of Utah .......... .. . Salt Lake City, UT August 1999 - May 2005 Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant (Digital Signal Processing) Jozef Stefan Institute .............. .. Ljubljana, Slovenia Researcher September 1996 - August 1999 Designed electrical stimulator and successfully employed new methods and experim ents involving Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES), Digital Signal Processin g Politecnico di Milano ............. . Milano, Italy Visiting researcher September - November 1997 Optoelectronic measurements, DSP Publications Complete list available upon request. Journal Publications 1. J. Jeraj, V.J. Mathews. Stochastic mean-square performance analysis of an ada ptive Hammerstein filter. IEEE Trans. Sig. Process., vol. 54, no. 6, June 2006. 2. J. Jeraj, V.J. Mathews. A stable adaptive Hammerstein filter employing partia l orthogonalization of the input signals. IEEE Trans. Sig. Process., vol. 54, no . 4, April 2006, pp. 1412- 1420. 3. F. Kandare, G. Exner, J. Jeraj, A. Aliverti, R. Dellaca, U. Stanic, A. Pedott i, R. Jaeger. Breathing induced by abdominal muscle stimulation in individuals w ithout spontaneous ventilation. Neuromodulation (Malden Mass.), vol. 5, pp. 180- 185, 2002. Refereed Conferences 1. J. Jeraj, V.J. Mathews. Identification of Nonlinear, Memoryless Systems Using Chebyshev Nodes. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proc. ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA., March 2005. 2. J. Jeraj, V.J. Mathews. Stochastic mean-square performance analysis of an ada ptive Hammerstein filter. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, an d Signal Processing. Proc. ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada, vol. II, pp.725-8, May 2004. 3. J. Jeraj, V.J. Mathews, J. Dubow. A stable adaptive Hammerstein filter employ ing partial orthogonalization of the input signals. IEEE International Conferenc e on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proc. ICASSP 2002, Orlando, FL, v ol. II, pp. 1349-52, May 2002. 4. G. Bodily, V.J. Mathews, J. Jeraj, J. Dubow. Test protocol and algorithm deve lopment. Proc. Of First Joint Conference on Point Detectors for Chemical and Bio logical Defense. Williamsburg, Virginia, pp. 309-17, October, 2000. 5. J. Jeraj, U. Stanic, F. Kandare, R.J. Jaeger. Four-channel stimulator for exp iratory supported ventilation. Proc. Sixth Vienna International Workshop on Func tional Electrostimulation Basics, Technology, Clinical Application, Vienna, Aust ria, pp. 239-42, September 1998. 6. M. Leonardi, J. Jeraj, B. Nemec. A new approach for testing sports shoes usin g industrial robots. Proc. RAAD'97, Cassino, Italy, pp. 553-8, 1997. 7. J. Dolzan, A. Leben, J. Jeraj, V. Prodnik, Z. Matjacic. Robot teaching. IEEE ERK'95, Portoroz, Slovenia, pp. 191-4, 1995. References Available on request.