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Basics

Name Anish Pradhan
Label Senior Systems Engineer
Email pradhananish1@vt.edu
Phone +1 (540) 998-9087
Url https://www.linkedin.com/in/anish-pradhan/
Summary Senior Systems Engineer at Tarana Wireless. Received Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, focusing on wireless communications, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and optimization.

Work

  • 2025.08 - Present
    Senior Systems Engineer
    Tarana Wireless
    Senior Systems Engineer.
  • 2024.05 - 2024.08
    Wireless System Engineering Intern
    NXP Semiconductors
    Designed, integrated, and validated beam management protocols for next-generation mmWave Wi-Fi systems.
    • Designed and evaluated a reference codebook featuring 3D sector beams for optimized coverage.
    • Integrated an advanced beam-training protocol into a realistic mmWave system-level simulator.
    • Collaborated cross-functionally with the RF hardware team to conduct live throughput tests on a mmWave testbed.
  • 2019.08 - 2020.05
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Virginia Tech
    Assisted in teaching and grading for undergraduate courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
    • Conducted lab sessions, managed grading, and provided student guidance during office hours.
  • 2019.08 - 2025.08
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Virginia Tech
    Spearheaded research initiatives focusing on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), Open RAN (O-RAN), and advanced channel modeling techniques.
    • Developed a comprehensive RIS-assisted Terahertz (THz) communication framework to enhance signal reliability.
    • Formulated optimization strategies for RIS networks to ensure coexistence with minimal channel state information.
    • Established end-to-end workflows for O-RAN Key Performance Indicator (KPI) extraction and analysis.
  • 2018.05 - 2018.10
    Research Intern
    IIIT-Delhi
    Researched MU-MIMO OFDM systems with non-ideal power amplifiers and phase noise.
    • Investigated the behavior of MU-MIMO systems under non-ideal hardware conditions.

Education

  • 2019.08 - 2025.05

    Blacksburg, Virginia

    Direct Ph.D. (M.S. Obtained)
    Virginia Tech
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    GPA: 3.88
  • 2014.01 - 2018.01

    Durgapur, India

    B.Tech.
    National Institute of Technology
    Electronics and Communication Engineering
    GPA: 9.6

Skills

Communication Protocols
Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11ad/ay)
4G
5G
Programming Languages/Tools
MATLAB
LATEX
Python
C++

Languages

English
Fluent
Bengali
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent

Interests

Multi-cell Multi-user MIMO
Interference Cancellation
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Phased Antenna Array
Beam Management
Optimization
Probability
Channel Modeling