Laya Varghese

1. Designation: Senior Engineer
   Company: Marquardt, Pune December 2022-Present
    Design, Simulation and testing of automotive antennas (NFC Reader, Bluetooth, UWB, WiFi Antennas)
2. Designation: RF Engineer -I
   Company: CommScope, Verna April 2021-November 2022
    Design, Simulation and testing of base station antenna array for 617-894 MHz and 2.3-2.69 GHz with 
   coupler and with grid concept.
    Design of coupler, Phased array antenna (5G), power dividers, twin beam and beam steering antennas.
    Dipole antenna element design for base station array antenna to ensure compliance with product 
   specifications.
    Hands on experience in antenna PIM measurement, pattern measurement in anechoic chamber, 
   Return loss, Isolation measurement and cable tuning.
    Miniaturization of coupler and feed board for cost reduction and cloaking design.
    EVT/DVT test plan preparation, DFMEA analysis.
    Guide RF technicians on testing & tuning of Base station antenna.
    Worked on VNA (Vector Network Analyzer), Spectrum analyzer, Signal generator, CommScope PIM
3.  Designation: Project Assistant Level III
   Company: CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru June 2018 –April 2021 
   Design and Development of Conformal antennas
    Conformal GPS fractal antenna array for unmanned aerial vehicles.
    15-34 GHz ultrawide band conformal tapered slot antenna with defected ground.
    Structurally integrated annular slot antenna with operating frequency of 4.44GHz in UAV.
    Monopole antenna with operating frequency of 2.45GHz on an UAV.
    Dipole, Bow-Tie and Printed Dipole antenna with operating frequency of 2.4GHz in an aircraft.
    Structurally integrated Datalink antenna design in Nasa Almond structure.
    UHF/VHF antenna design on an aircraft belly.
    Omni-directional circularly polarized antenna design with operating frequency of 2.4 GHz.
   Design and Development of Planar antennas
    GPS fractal patch antenna using advanced material for unmanned aerial vehicles.
    Fabrication of planar fractal antennas with defected ground using 2D Prototype printing machine
    Measurement of radiation pattern and return-loss measurement of planar antennas
    15-34 GHz ultrawide band planar tapered slot antenna array with defected ground.
    Linearly and circularly polarized patch antennas with operating frequency of 2.4 GHz.
    Design, visualize and analyze the microstrip patch antenna with operating frequency of 2.4 GHz.
    Design of DRA antenna with operating frequency of 2.4 GHz.
    Design of Data link and UHF/VHF antenna.
    RCS Estimation of planar antenna.
   Development of HF based RCS Estimation Software in MATLAB
    RCS and field estimation of electrically large structures using physical optics method.
    Computation of effect of materials from user defined database in RCS reduction for stealth application.
4. Designation: Project Intern April 2017-2018
   Company : CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengalu

Master of Technology in Electronics and Communication (Microwave Engineering) Engineering from 
Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) with CGPA 8
Major Project : Design and Development of Conformal fractal GPS Antenna for Aerospace Applications
Seminar : Non-Contact Control System for Disabled Patients by Using BCI Technology
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Calicut University with 72% 
Major Project : Fusion of MRI and CT Brain Images Using Discrete Wavelet Transform