From: bhingard@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Siddharth Bhingarde)
Subject: Looking for a position in VLSI CAD area
Keywords: VLSI CAD, place & route, UNIX/C guru
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:43:25 GMT


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                               Siddharth Bhingarde
              1940, Howard Street, Apt. \# 492, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
                 Phone home: (616)-387-7418, work: (616)-387-5645 
                          email: bhingard@cs.wmich.edu
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CAREER OBJECTIVES:

	To work on VLSI physical design automation in a research and 
	development environment.  In particular, to develop/maintain/use 
	VLSI CAD tools. 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  o  M.S. (Computer Science), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 
     1992, GPA 4.0/4.0.
     - Area of Concentration: Design and analysis of algorithms for VLSI place 
       & route.
     - Topic of Thesis: Optimal cell design and over-the-cell routing for 
       standard cell designs.

  o  B.Sc. (Computer Technology; Hardware and Software), Watumull Institute, 
     University of Bombay, India, 1989, First Class with Distinction. 

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE:

  o  VLSI Design Automation Tools and Languages: MAGIC, HED, L-Edit, Spice, 
     VHDL.

  o  Languages and Software: C++, C, C  and Bourne Shell, X-Windows, X-View, 
     Xt, OLIT, SunView, Interface Builder and Various other Utilities on SUN, 
     TCP/IP, Pascal, sed, awk, yacc.

  o  Machines & Operating Systems: SUN/UNIX, NeXT/MACH, VAX/(VMS, ULTRIX), 
     PDP11- 44/RMX 11-M+, IBM PC-AT Compatible/(XENIX, MS-DOS).

EMPLOYMENT:

  o  May '92 - Dec. '92: Development Engineer (internship), Cascade Software 
     Technology International, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI.
     - developed hierarchical layout design methodology in an interactive and 
       flexible VLSI layout design system, on SUN/UNIX using C/X-View.
     - implemented high performance global routing tool.

  o  Sept. '91 - Apr. '92: Research Assistant, VLSI research lab, Department 
     of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
     - research on new algorithms for VLSI design automation.
     - research on optimal cell designs for over-the-cell routing. 
     - developed an integrated three-layer global, channel and over-the-cell 
       routing system called OSCAR, for standard cell designs, on SUN/UNIX 
       using C/X-View.
     - implemented an algorithm for pin assignment.

  o  Jan. '91 - Aug. '91: Systems Analyst (part time), Faculty Resource Lab., 
     Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
     - developed an interactive tape backup utility on VAX/VMS using DCL and 
       Pascal.
     - provided consultancy to the faculty of WMU in their computer related 
       projects.

  o  Jan. '89 - June '90: Engineer, Research and Development Department,
     Press Trust of India, Bombay, India.
     - developed an Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS) (6 months)
     - developed an editor's workstation (6 months) 
     - developed the operators interface for AMSS (4 months)
     - developed the standby system to AMSS (2 months)
     - all the above projects are developed in XENIX/C environment.

PUBLICATIONS:

  -  "Efficient Over-the-Cell Routing Algorithm for General Middle Terminal 
     Model," to appear in the Proceedings of ISCAS-93, Chicago, Illinois. 
     (co-authors: A. Panyam and N. Sherwani)

  -  "Efficient Over-the-Cell Routing Algorithm for Via-Less Middle Terminal 
     Models," to appear in the Proceedings of EDAC-EUROASIC 1993, Paris, 
     France.  (co-authors: A. Panyam and N. Sherwani)

  -  "On Optimum Cell Models for Over-the-cell Routing," Proceedings of 6th 
     International Conference on VLSI Design, Jan. 1993, pp. 94-99.  
     (co-authors: A. Panyam and N. Sherwani)

  -  "OSCAR: A Novel Over-the-cell Router for New Cell Model," available as 
     Tech. Report, No. 92-27, Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan 
     University, (co-author: N. Sherwani)

  -  "Finding Maximum Split Subgraph in a Graph," available as Tech. Report, 
     No. 90-23, Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University.
     (co-authors: M. Hossain and N. Sherwani)

  -  "Over-the-cell Routing," research book, under preparation. 
     (co-author: N. Sherwani)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

  -  On the Honor Roll of C.S. Dept., Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
     MI, 1991.
  -  Watumull Foundation Scholarship, 1990.
  -  R. D. Sethna's Scholarship, 1990.
  -  Kulapati's Award for Academic Excelence, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES:

  -  Student Member, Association of Computer Machinery (ACM).
  -  Student Member, ACM Special Interest Group in Design Automation (SIGDA).
  -  Student Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Computer Science  Honor Society.
  -  Member of the team representing Western Michigan University at ACM
     regional programming contest, to be held in Ohio, November 1992.
  -  Reviewer for the Third Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Kalamazoo, MI.

REFERENCES:
    Available upon request.