Laya Varghese

• RF/Antenna Engineer with 8 year of hands-on experience in designing, fabricating, tuning, and testing

  Antennas, RF circuits/Components, Base station antenna, Automotive antenna and now working as Senior Engineer in Marquardt.

• Expert in Antenna Design, Fabrication and Measurement
• Skilled in Electromagnetic Simulation Softwares

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