• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida in Wireless networks and related Medium Access Control techniques.

December 2005

• MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, GPA 3.65.

Fall 2003

• Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, GPA 3.8.

June 2001

• Graduate Courses: Wireless Networks, Wireless Communications, Queuing Theory in Data Communications, Digital Communications, Automatic Speech Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, DSP Fractals and Chaos, Noise in Linear Systems.

• Research

Research Assistant at Laboratory for Information Systems and Telecommunications (LIST) at University of Florida (03-present): Exploring novel modifications in layer II hand-off and medium access techniques for throughput enhancement, designing 802.11 MAC simulations for W-LANs, characterizing user mobility through Markov Chain based analytic models. Writing and presenting extensive reports and book chapters. Reviewing papers for conferences and journals. Leading undergraduate groups in diverse research projects.

• Teaching

Teaching Assistant/Instructor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, for undergraduate Circuits Lab (all of 2002) and Linear Controls Lab (Spring 2005), and for graduate level Queuing Theory (Fall 2003) and Digital Controls (Spring 2004) : Taught class (30 students per class on average), conducted lab sessions, held office hours, set up and conducted exams, graded home-works, guest lectured for a few classes for supervisors.

• Internship

Intern at Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Summer 2000): Contributed in a team entrusted with setting up a Windows NT Based Local Area Network at the corporate office of BHEL at New Delhi.  Set up new computers, transferred data between old and new machines, configured the computers and other peripherals onto the network, and conducted trouble-shooting.

• Sectorized Medium Access Control for Wireless LANs: Researching the use of directional antennae in W-LANs. Using Markov Models for user mobilty and hand-off cost analyses.

Present

• Simulation of 802.11 MAC for Wireless LANs: MATLAB based simulation of CSMA-CA based Back-Off Algorithms for 802.11 Medium Access Control.

Fall 2002

• Study of Power Law Distributions applied to Network Connectivity: Determined the topology of ufl.edu domain and established the distribution of web page connectivity.

Fall 2002

• Evaluation of Elastic Flow Based Routing Algorithms: Java based simulation for popular routing algorithms like Dijkstra’s and Shortest Path.

(Undergraduate Thesis, Spring 2001)

• Singing Voice Generation: Conversion of ordinary speech signal to singing voice.

Spring 2002

• Music Generation: Successful in extracting musical note patterns from representative samples of different genres and generating a new tune of a particular style.

Fall 2001

• Four-Point FFT Hardware Simulation: Analysis of Decimation-In-Time Algorithm for calculating FFT and its implementation in Cadence.

Summer 2002

• K. Tripathi, J. McNair, and H. Latchman, "Directional Antenna based Performance Evaluation of User Mobility in 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks," to appear in Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems (Intellcomm), Montreal, Canada, October 2005. 

P. Aggarwal, K. Tripathi, J. McNair, and H. Latchman, "Mobile Assisted Bit Sequence Authentication and Authorization (MABSAA)," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems, and Applications (CITSA), Orlando, Florida, July 2004.

• J. McNair, S. Penumetsa, K. Tripathi and H. Latchman, "A Performance Analysis of Medium Access Control in 802.11 WLANs using Antenna Sectorization," presented at Workshop on Recent Advances in Computer Networking, April 2004.