Bio
Amith Narayan is involved in the design, operation and maintenance of SNS RF structures (RFQ, Rebunchers, DTL, CCL). He is presently developing a code to tune the RFQ, studying the downtime data for the RF systems to help develop a predictive maintenance tool. He is also involved in the RFTF conditioning process for various RF components. He received his BE in Telecommunications Engineering (2007) from RV College of Engineering in Bangalore, India. He worked as Design Engineer at AMD India for x86 microprocessors that went into Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox. He graduated with a PhD in Electrical Engineering (2020) from the University of Maryland, College Park. His PhD research focused on designing a megawatt class power extraction circuit (decelerating beam) for Ionospheric heaters at RF frequencies.
In his spare time, Amith blogs and vlogs regularly. He writes about his work, higher education, job search, book reviews and competitive exams. On his YouTube channel he solves textbook problems in the undergraduate electrical engineering courses.
Awards
George Corcoran Memorial Award for Graduate Student
Honor Date: Sep 2020 Honor Issuer: ECE Department, University of Maryland
Honor Description: This award is presented annually to a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in recognition of excellence in teaching.
Best Student Paper Award: Constant Impedance Tunable IOT Power Extraction Circuit
Honor Date: Apr 2016 Honor Issuer: Graduate Student Government at University of Maryland, College Park
Finalist - Best Student Paper: Constant Impedance Tunable IOT Power Extraction Circuit
Honor Date: Apr 2016 Honor Issuer: IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2016)
Finalist - Best Student Paper: Simulations & Experiments of Constant Impedance Tunable Power Extraction Circuits for Mobile Ionospheric Heating
Honor Date: Jun 2018 Honor Issuer: IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2018)