RUCHI CHOUDHARY

Phone: (+91)9450343176

Email: ruchich@iitk.ac.in, ch.ruchi@gmail.com

ACADEMIC RECORD
Year
2009
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2003
2001

Degree/Certificate
Electrical Engineering,
B.Tech. M.Tech. (Dual Degree)
XII Standard (CBSE)
X Standard (CBSE)

School/College
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Instrumentation Ltd. School, Kota
Sophia Sec. School, Bikaner

Percentage/CPI
M.Tech. :10.0/10.0
B.Tech. : 8.6/10.0
81.8 %
91.0 %

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Publications
x Poster titled Effect of Area Variation in Organic Solar Cell Performance to be presented in 18th International
Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (2008)
x Presented poster in Research Symposium, Purdue University; received appreciation from NSF,US (2007)

Scholarships
x Amongst 3 Indian students to be selected for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for intensive
on campus undergraduate research at Purdue University, US (2007)
x Awarded Dr Hari Mohan & Pushpa Srivastava (2006) and Shiv Kumari Shukla Scholarship (2007) for best all round
performance amongst 85 students in the department
x Received National Talent Search Scholarship by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) (2001)

Awards
x Bagged fourth prize for 2 consecutive years in Electronic Circuit Design Competition (ECDC) in Techkriti
(Intercollegiate technical festival, IIT Kanpur) (2005-06)
x Awarded second and third prize in robots from scratch and lego kit robot design competition respectively in Build
Robot Create Science Workshop (BRiCS) (2004)
x Secured All India Rank 489 in Joint Entrance Examination (2004)

M.TECH. THESIS
Low cost, optimized module design of organic solar cell arrays
Organization: Samtel Centre for Display Technologies, IIT Kanpur
Advisor: Prof. S.S.K. Iyer, Deptt. of Electrical Engg.
(Jan 08 till date)
x Developing an algorithm to integrate single solar cells into modules for efficient and cost effective commercial production
x The panels will result in an estimated 30% cost reduction over currently used inorganic solar cells
x Modules sufficient to drive a cell phone/ calculator battery would be fabricated at Samtel clean room facility at IIT
Kanpur to validate the proposed designs

SUMMER INTERNSHIP
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Organization: Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory, Purdue University, US
Advisor: Prof. Kaushik Roy, Deptt. of Electrical and Computer Engg.
(May-July 2007)
x Established device optimization for subthreshold operating region (for use in power saving devices, watches,
palmtops etc.) and investigated the use of tunneling transistors in dynamic RAMs
x Improved inverter and adder delays by 36% over conventional halo devices for ultralow power operations
x Scaled power losses by 6 orders of magnitude due to reduced refresh rate in tunneling DRAMs

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
1.2 GHz, 8-bit, double pipelined Arithmetic Logic Unit architecture

(Jan-Apr08)
Implemented 8-bit double pipelined ALU using over 70,000 transistors in Cadence
Architectural techniques like pipelining were employed in the adder and the multiplier for elimination of idle states
at the output and throughput enhancement to 16 times
x Proposed a novel technique to exponentially reduce the latency introduced by pipelining a huge network
Power Optimization of Buffered Interconnects and Dual Edge Triggered Storage Elements (May-Jun06)
x Performed classification, timing characterization and evaluation of high speed dual edge triggered storage elements
x Demonstrated 50% reduction in power consumed by clock distribution network by halving the clock frequency
x Presented an optimum layout resulting in 25% performance increase
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Addressed the problem of power dissipation in buffer insertion phase of interconnect optimization and formulated the
expression for optimum number of stages and placement

Low Offset CMOS Dynamic Differential Comparator for ADCs

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(Aug-Dec07)
Designed a robust, fully differential comparator for high resolution, high speed analog to digital applications
Executed simulation based sensitivity analysis to illustrate 47% reduction in voltage offset for 5% capacitance
variation and 69% reduction for variation in input common mode signal

Working Model of Desert Cooler Pump

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(Jan-Apr06)
Manufactured a working, real life, energy efficient model of a desert cooler pump using various mechanical and
metallurgical processes like milling, drilling, sheet metal, turning etc
Applied practical concepts of fluid dynamics to engineer vent hole orientation, bottom sheet perforation etc to raise
water upto 2 feet by self fabricated gears
Won the best project award among 250 students

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Analog/Digital VLSI Circuits

Semiconductor Device Modeling
Digital Electronics & Microprocessors
Microelectronics-I (Circuits )
Organic Electronics
Digital Signal Processing
Principles of Communication
Probability and Statistics

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VLSI System Design

Semiconductor Device Technology
Solid State Devices
Microelectronics-II (Devices)
Electromagnetic Theory
Signals, Systems and Networks
Communication Systems
RFID and Wireless Sensors

TECHNICAL SKILLS
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Programming Languages: C, JAVA, Verilog

Simulators: Cadence, Mentor Graphics (ELDO), Medici, PSpice, Tanner Spice, Microcap, ModelSim, MAGIC
Softwares: MATLAB, Latex, Origin
Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, MS Windows98/NT/2000/XP

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Journalism
x Editor-in-Chief, Vox Populi (2007-08)
x Interviewed personalities like Arun Shourie, Narayana Murthy, Nobel Laureate Peter Grunberg and artist KK
x Probed issues like workers rights, resulting in revision of overtime rates and health allowance for contract workers
x Revived and consolidated the paper by bringing in sponsors, addressing faculty issues, ramping up a team of 35
and getting permanent funds allocated from the students gymkhana
x Prime Mover, 3 campus print journals
x Vox Populi: Started in a team of 5 the institute newspaper for the first time; supported by the Director (2005)
x Placement Feedback Guide: Led a team of 7 to publish the first Career Guide for 1200 upcoming aspirants (2007-08)
x Encre: Worked in a team of 12 to bring out the first Freshers Magazine as a window to the campus life (2005)
Public Relations
x Member, Core Team, Students Placement Office (2007-08)
Negotiated schedules with company officials, delegated duties to manage 35 company visits during phase I of placements
Coordinated the central office for managing simultaneous running of operations at 5 different locations
x Mess Secretary, Hall Executive Committee, Girls Hostel I (2006-07)
Made 2 best daily wage workers permanent; introduced alternative food items increasing people eating in mess by 13%
Mentorship
x Coordinator, SERC Summer School, Dept. of Science and Tech. (Govt. of India) (2008)
Conducted lectures and labs attended by faculty from NITs; exemplary work resulted in selection for coordinating
the two week NNIN International Graduate School (iWSG) organized by NSF, Govt. of US
x Senior Member, Electronics Club (2004-06)
Organized Electronic Circuit Design Competition (ECDC) in Techkriti06 witnessing record participation of 43 teams
Pioneered participation of girls in Science & Tech. Council by winning 4th prize for 2 consecutive years in ECDC
x Instructor and Student Guide, Counseling Service (2007-08)
Conducted English Conversation Classes for freshmen students to improve their conversation skills
x Volunteer, Prayas, Students Organization involved in educational activities for underprivileged children (2008)