Avinash Gudipati

Professional Experience

WLAN Engineer – Qualcomm

United States | Current
  • Working on WLAN system testing, functional validation, and performance analysis.
  • Performing PHY and MAC layer debugging, throughput analysis, and feature validation.
  • Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to improve reliability and performance of Wi‑Fi.

RF Researcher – MiMoCloud

College Park, MD, USA | Oct 2023 – May 2025
  • Developing and testing nonlinear compression models for RF and audio-domain signals, achieving measurable improvements in reconstruction quality.
  • Demonstrated ~100:1 compression on sonar audio data while preserving 94% machine learning detection accuracy (vs. 95% on uncompressed data), validating compression suitability for downstream ML tasks.
  • Designed and automated a MATLAB-based evaluation pipeline to compute metrics including MSE, L2 loss, and SSIM, reducing manual workload by ~80% and significantly accelerating test cycles.
  • Performed comparative analysis across compression configurations to guide model selection and system-level tradeoffs.

Graduate Teaching Assistant – University of Maryland

College Park, MD, USA | Aug 2023 – Dec 2023
  • Conducted hands‑on lab sessions for graduate students covering Wireshark, Linux, and Juniper routers.
  • Mentored students to achieve proficiency in JUNOS configuration aligned with JNCIA certification.
  • Supported coursework delivery and lab design under Prof. Zoltan Safar.

Engineering Intern – Zettamine

Hyderabad, India | May 2020 – Jun 2020
  • Developed an event‑triggered messaging system with an Android‑based user interface.
  • Integrated the application with Amazon EC2 for cloud‑based message transmission.

Trainee Engineer – Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)

Hyderabad, India | Aug 2019 – Feb 2020
  • Worked on conceptual design and implementation of health monitoring systems for missile platforms.
  • Designed and simulated sensor‑integrated systems using Proteus.
  • Integrated temperature, pressure, and humidity sensors for real‑time monitoring use cases.

Education

University of Maryland

MS in Telecommunications | College Park, MD, USA

Matrusri Engineering College

BE in Electronics and Communications Engineering | Telangana, India

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