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Basics

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

Work

  • 2024.05 - 2024.08
    Wireless System Engineering Intern
    NXP Semiconductors
    Designed and tested beam management in mmWave Wi-Fi systems.
    • Designed a reference codebook with 3D sector beams.
    • Integrated beam-training protocol in mmwave simulator.
    • Collaborated with RF team for throughput tests.
  • 2019.08 - 2025.05
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Virginia Tech
    Research on RIS systems, ORAN, and channel modeling.
    • Developed RIS-assisted THz communication framework.
    • Optimized RIS for coexistence with minimal information.
    • Established workflows for ORAN KPI extraction.

Education

  • 2019.08 - 2025.05

    Blacksburg, Virginia

    MS (obtained), and Direct Ph.D.
    Virginia Tech
    Electrical Engineering
  • 2014.01 - 2018.01

    Durgapur, India

    B.Tech.
    National Institute of Technology
    Electronics and Communication Engineering

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

Wireless Communications
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Phased Antenna Array
Beam Management
Optimization
Probability
Channel Modeling