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mareesh[dot]issar@rutgers.edu
Hughes Network Systems, LLC
Biography
Mareesh Kumar Issar is currently working as MTS-II software engineer in OneWeb project at Hughes Network Systems, USA. Before joining Hughes, he graduated from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2020 with a masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his B.Tech with Honors in Electronics and Communications Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 2017.
At Rutgers University, he was a Research Assistant at Wireless Information Network Laboratory - WINLAB, where he completed his masters thesis titled - “E-ASSOC: Enhanced Energy Efficient User ASSOCiation Algorithm for Future Cellular Networks” under the guidance of Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri. His broad areas of interest include Software Engineering, Wireless Systems and Artificial Intelligence.
Mareesh has also participated in several hackathons and his project “HomeDerm” was awarded the best COVID-19 project award at Stanford University’s “Building for Digital Health: Virtual Buildathon” in 2020. He is also a recipient of National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) scholarship in 2009.
Away from work, he enjoys hiking, volunteering, playing piano, and reading books. As a member of the Information and Planning Team at American Red Cross, he was responsible for the design, integration and launch of the official NJ Regional Operation Summary.
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Experience
- Working on OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation project
- Proposed and implemented a centralized heuristic-based user association algorithm improving the energy efficiency of cellular network by 87.83% over max-SNR based user association algorithm
- Programmed cellular network simulation modules for handover verification on ORBIT testbed using ns-3
- Researched on small cells and handover schemes in 3GPP LTE networks
- Designed and built a testbed for Visible Light Communication (VLC) with off-the-shelf LED lamps
- Developed a Windows application using Microsoft Visual Studio to support transfer of short text messages between two computers utilizing the VLC testbed
Projects
Academics
- ECE 573 Data Structure and Algorithms
- CS 520 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- ECE 503 Programming Finance
- ECE 541 Stochastic Signals and Systems
- ECE 568 Software Engineering for Web Applications
- ECE 543 Communication Networks I: Queuing Theory
- ECE 544 Communication Networks II: Network and Protocol Architectures
- ECE 546 Wireless Communication Technologies
