Mousumi

In recent years, there has been significant amount of research and development efforts, both in academia and industry, on technologies that help build a connected world. Quite a few of the new applications being targeted need accurate positioning, or location-awareness. One cutting-edge wireless technology, which is optimized for secure micro-location-based applications, and thereby set out to play a critical role in enabling a myriad of new or enhanced applications that require highly accurate location and distance sensing, is the Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technology. UWB is an IEEE 802.15.4a/z standard technology optimized for secure micro-location-based applications. Unlike other radio frequency technologies, UWB was specifically designed to enable precise, secure, real-time measurement of location, distance, and direction, while concurrently supporting two-way communication. There have also been significant efforts on defining a standard that would make UWB robust and immune to various forms of interference, assuring a high level of reliability. The presentation will focus on the key differentiating aspects of the technology, key topologies of usage and applications, and recent and upcoming developments in the IEEE and industry standards.

Biography:

Dr. Mousumi Roy is presently affiliated with the Arizona State University, as a visiting researcher, focusing on research on system analysis for THz phased array solutions. Dr. Roy received her Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, India in 2006, M.Sc in Communication Engineering from the University of Manchester in 2008, followed by a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester in 2011. She completed a post-doctorate at the University of Manchester in 2012 for Rols-Royce. She then started her industrial career at Nvidia, Bristol, UK, and later moved to Qorvo (then Greenpeak Technologies.), Netherlands. In her academic and industry career, she has contributed to semiconductor process studies, RF component design, RF systems engineering and systems architecture for multiple applications, including commercial applications (cellular handset, Zigbee/BLE/UWB based IoT), as well as high-reliability and mission-critical applications (aerospace, radar, phased-arrays, radio astronomy).  In her most recent role as a Senior Manager of UWB Systems Engineering/Architecture at Qorvo, she led the architecture, standards, and algorithm development for Qorvo’s Ultra-Wideband solution. Dr. Roy has received awards and scholarships from the UKIERI (British Council), Square Kilometer Array, Rolls-Royce, Texas Instruments and ASTRON (Netherlands National Radio Astronomy Institute). Her work has also been featured in EE Web and in BBC Christmas Lectures’ ‘Meet the Engineers’ panel, and in the Qorvo Wonder Women in Tech series. She is an IEEE senior member, keynote speaker, an active volunteer in the MTT-S community, as well as an enthusiastic STEM advocate and mentor.

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