Shikha Goyal

goyalsh@email.uc.edu


co-op experience

  • Managing Co-op, Gemini Jewelers (One quarter):

    - Worked on upgrading an existing website

    - Managed inventory and reconciled bank deposits on a daily basis

    - Managed production schedule on a weekly basis

  • Software Engineer, Rockwell Automation (Two quarters):

    - Debugged, maintained, and tested various Rockwell Software products using C++

    - Edited hardware test plans/descriptions

  • Application Engineer III, IBM (One quarter):

    - Designed the Graphical User Interface of the software used to automate netlist configurations. Netlist configurations were to be processed along with the target chip

research and competitions

  • Investigation of Efficient Heuristics for a State-Based Satisfiability Solver(Two quarters)

    - Studied the satisfiability problem which proves that two functions are equivalent

    - Analyzed proposed solutions and the reasons they are efficient solutions

    - Studied the capabilities of the solver and used experimental results to recognize various patterns to speed up the computational efficiency of the solver

    - Recorded and documented results

  • Solar Decathlon (One quarter):

    - Member of the UC Solar Decathlon Competition in which a full sized, solar powered house was designed and created

    - Researched feasible house designs and HVAC systems

skills/expertise areas

  • GUI programming

  • Programming Languages: C++/C

  • Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OS

  • Software: Microsoft Office, PSPICE, B^2 Logic, Mathematica, Matlab, Adobe

areas of interest

  • Signal/image processing and optimization

  • Controls

type of project sought

  • Nano Biosensors