Subharthi B, Ph.D.
Wireless Systems and Architecture, Principal@NXPHelping wireless system research and development navigate through idea, prototype,
debug to product.
Bringing AI to hardware DSP reimagining compliance and long-term maintenance cycles.
Experienced in promoting and bulwarking early tech adoptions in automotive to support customers build products
that I am the consumer of.
Worked @
NXP Semiconductors
Wireless System and Architecture
Engineer
San Jose, CA
Principal, April 2023 - Present
Senior, June 2022 - April 2023
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Ford Motor Company
Advanced Connectivity Research
Engineer
Dearborn, MI
June 2020 - May 2022
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Highlights
Spearheaded NXP total quality goals to deliver compliance vs customer
coexistence/colocation requirement. Resulted in multiple successful tapeouts, DWINs,
customer products (which I use daily), SoCs boasting competitive edge in the market.
Leading part of the NXP team that won multiple customer supplier awards for support and designs. [link]
Nominated and finalist for Ford Research and Advanced Engineering (R&A) excellence award
in the second year at Ford.
Ford Bluetooth LE based Bicycle-to-Vehicle (B2V) project showcased and discussed in the media
outlets such as Forbes, Washington Post, etc. along with CES demonstration in 2022. [link]
Developed, led and executed track test of Bluetooth LE technology at the Ann Arbor Mcity with 15 cars, 50 bikes/scooters
with over 100 test participants proving viability of the incubated idea.
Experienced working with STRATCOM projects as a student.
Experienced in leading university projects as a Principal Investigator at the industry.
Experienced in leading and directing teams in multiple continents and backgrounds to drive business and product KPIs.
Work Experience
@NXP Semiconductors
-
Developed data-driven, memory-efficient software/hardware solutions to cater to mass-market and customer-centric designs.
[Product]
-
Steered innovative proposals towards the company's long-term goals in edge AI/ML, identifying product and
future execution/research challenges articulating requirements regarding design closeness to
design size with respect to use-case realization and utilization.
[AI/ML]
-
Engineered simulators from scratch that integrate digital designs and analog models to deliver
end-to-end simulations, supporting new feature design and product deployment. Responsible for multiple unique
sensing and Rx automation benches and data pipelines/dashboards to understand data/model drifts in test environments.
[Simulators]
-
Facilitated early development of joint Wi-Fi sensing in standalone RF, enabling multiple SoC features to deliver seamless and consistent pre-processed signals for further
algorithm development. [Wi-Fi Sensing]
-
Collaborated in architecting Tx and Rx datapaths to support multiple RF/BBUD interface requirements for >= 802.11be. [Datapath]
-
Resolved customer issues by enabling new methods of fault testing, creating
diagnostics through probe-based simulations/emulations, hypothesis testing, and feedback loop automation.
Reduced resolution time aiding customer product launches, design wins, and resolving
use-case vs. compliance conflicts. [Customer Issue Debug]
@Ford Motor Company
Developed design-thinking based solution on Bluetooth LE 5.0 for Vulnerable Road User (VRU),
i.e. bike safety
[Passive Safety]
-
Researched, led and designed end-to-end range, coexistence and scale/congestion
implications on large scale Bluetooth LE-based VRU technology deployment.
Worked with multi-industry working groups to lead innovative solution to enhance in-house customer and VRU-vehicle experience
*Lead presenter in R&A Expo for VRU Safety
Demonstrated quarterly (phased) progress to leadership through interactive data sketches from idea->innovations->system testing/integrations->prototype->integration->controlled and semi-controlled field tests
* Nominated as a lead and finalist for internal R&A Research Excellence award along with FNV4 and Paak
Led initiatives and innovations to support Ford's goal to be 'Always On' by introducing new connectivity technologies to the leadership.
Education
Ph.D in Computer Engineering @University of Nebraska-Lincoln [2020]
Masters in Telecommunications Engineering @University of Nebraska-Lincoln [2015-2017]
Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded Systems Design @Center for Development of Advanced Computing [2014]
B.Tech in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering @Techno India, Kolkata [2013]
Research
I have been fortunated enough to work on a multitude of problems and drive them
to demonstrations, publications and products. Below is a
timeline of my research and contributions to the field of
wireless, automotive and semiconductor industry and academia.
2025
@NXP
leading AI wireless sensing and desensing projects.
2024
@NXP
built new AI labs in US and India for wireless research and development.
2024
@NXP
* voter in 802.11, contributing towards 802.11bq
* developing next generation of wireless sensing platforms and end-to-end simulation environments for Wi-Fi datapaths.
2023
@NXP
*Principal
*architecting industry's first KPIs and methods to
support customer use-cases in colocation scenarios.
2022
@NXP
Joined NXP
2022
@Ford
Final results and insights given to the stakeholders to deploy Bluetooth LE 5.0 for VRU safety.
2021
@Ford
* leading Phase II - III (Proving grounds to M-City Ann Arbor) Vru
safety field tests with multiple internal and external team
* helped build wireless research lab from scratch with a budget of 500K to support sensing,
V2X and Paak research
*led research as a Co-PI with multiple universities to develop 5G/LTE V2X algorithms and channel models
* built a really fun demo to show V2X capability in CARLA sim environment to demonstrate Automated Valet Parking (AVP)
with V2X based next waypoint unicasts.
2020
* Finished PhD
* Joined Ford Motor Company
2020
@UNL
* pioneered behavioral-social D2D communications towards finding optimal user-association relative to user-mobility and social-behavior.
* developed formal verification methods for cyber-physical systems with Ricci-flows
* created 5G-NR and LTE simulators for high-speed train networks
* worked with STRATCOM for CPS security and safety
* collaborated to develop one of the first demonstrations of VR telepresence with multi-arm robotcs in remote education
Awards & Recognition
NXP Sony Procurement Award [2023]
Finalist for Ford R&A Excellence Award [2022]
UNL Electrical & Computer Engineering Grad Poster Competition Awards [2018]
ASME Rail Transportation Division (RTD) Grad Student Conf Scholarship [2017]
College of Engineering Outstanding Masters Thesis [2017]
Nebraska Engineering Recruitment Fellowship [2017-2019]
Milton Mohr Fellowship [2019]
Holling Family Teaching Fellowship [2019-2020]
NSF-Infocom Travel Grant [2019]
IEEE Communications Society Student Travel Grant [2018]
Publications
-
Patents
-
"System and method for preventing interactions between vehicle and moving object"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
[2025] [Link]
-
"Dynamic switching of Bluetooth LE PHY for extended non-connectable advertisements"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
[2024] [Link]
-
"Systems and methods for conveying information about a traffic event via vehicle communications"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
[2024] [Link]
-
"Systems and methods for providing targeted content to users"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
[2024] [Link]
-
Journal Articles & Conference Papers
-
"Topography relaxation in determining unsafe state intersections for uncertain cps"
IEEE Sensors Letters
[2020]
-
"BIOTRUST: A Novel Biologically Inspired Optimal TRusted User Social Trait-Aware Association for Wireless Proximity Services in 5G and Beyond"
PhD Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[2020]
-
"A new framework for automatic modulation classification using deep belief networks"
IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
[2020]
-
"Wireless communication for high-speed passenger rail services: A study on the design and evaluation of a unified architecture"
Joint Rail Conference
[2020]
-
"Detecting dark cars using a novel multi-antenna aei tag reader design for increased read distance and reliability"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference
[2020]
-
"Evaluation of machine learning-driven automatic modulation classifiers under various signal models"
Joint Rail Conference
[2020]
-
"Detecting dark cars in railroad operations using multi-antenna beamforming for long-distance discovery and identification of aei tags"
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC)
[2020]
-
"Accuracy analysis of feature-based automatic modulation classification with blind modulation detection"
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
[2019]
-
"High speed train wireless communication: Handover performance analysis for different radio access technologies"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference
[2019]
-
"A framework for high-speed passenger train wireless network radio evaluations"
Joint Rail Conference
[2019]
-
"A novel biomimicry-based analysis of d2d user association retention for achieving maximal throughput"
International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)
[2019]
-
"A novel behavioral Social-Aware D2D user association scheme based on Self-Propelled voronoi"
IEEE INFOCOM Workshops
[2019]
-
"A novel approach to social-behavioral d2d trust associations using self-propelled voronoi"
IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall)
[2019]
-
"Analysis of distribution test-based and feature-based approaches toward automatic modulation classification"
IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
[2019]
-
"A novel proposal for implementing massive mimo and user and control plane decoupling with upwarc"
International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS)
[2018]
-
"A new railyard safety approach for detection and tracking of personnel and dynamic objects using software-defined radar"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference
[2018]
-
"5G-UCDA in High Speed Rail with Multi Antenna-to-Logical Cell Circular FIFO Mapping Strategy"
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
[2018]
-
"Towards an integrated approach for distributed 5G cell association in UDN under interference and mobility"
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
[2018]
-
"Performance analysis of a novel passenger train wireless communications architecture for high-speed trains"
International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNeT)
[2018]
-
"Performance evaluation of feature-based automatic modulation classification"
International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS)
[2018]
-
"Human Interactions and User Association in Device-to-Device Communications in Terms of Biological Jamming"
IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)
[2018]
-
"Providing reliable throughput with upwarc as a wireless communications architecture for high-speed trains"
IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall)
[2018]
-
"Novel concept of d2d mobility modeling utilizing biological cell jamming/unjamming paradigm"
IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
[2017]
-
"A survey of railyard worker protection approaches and system design considerations"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference
[2017]
-
"A review of workspace challenges and wearable solutions in railroads and construction"
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)
[2017]
-
"Decoupled u/c plane architecture for hetnets and high speed mobility: research directions & challenges"
IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
[2017]
-
"Fusion of VR and Teleoperation for Innovative Near-Presence Laboratory Experience in Engineering Education"
IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology
[2017]
-
"Upwarc: User plane wireless adaptable reliable communication, a new architecture for high speed train passenger internet services"
IEEE 13th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
[2017]
-
"Towards a modular iot network model: Low power radio domain use-case in linear-topology wireless sensor network"
International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking (MoWNeT)
[2016]
-
"A Survey of Wireless Communication Technologies & Their Performance for High Speed Railways"
Journal of Transportation Technologies
[2016]
Let's Connect
Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just to say hello!
NXP Semiconductors
Wireless System and Architecture
Engineer
San Jose, CA
Principal, April 2023 - Present
Senior, June 2022 - April 2023
Read More
Ford Motor Company
Advanced Connectivity Research
Engineer
Dearborn, MI
June 2020 - May 2022
Read More
Highlights
Spearheaded NXP total quality goals to deliver compliance vs customer coexistence/colocation requirement. Resulted in multiple successful tapeouts, DWINs, customer products (which I use daily), SoCs boasting competitive edge in the market.
Leading part of the NXP team that won multiple customer supplier awards for support and designs. [link]
Nominated and finalist for Ford Research and Advanced Engineering (R&A) excellence award in the second year at Ford.
Ford Bluetooth LE based Bicycle-to-Vehicle (B2V) project showcased and discussed in the media outlets such as Forbes, Washington Post, etc. along with CES demonstration in 2022. [link]
Developed, led and executed track test of Bluetooth LE technology at the Ann Arbor Mcity with 15 cars, 50 bikes/scooters with over 100 test participants proving viability of the incubated idea.
Experienced working with STRATCOM projects as a student.
Experienced in leading university projects as a Principal Investigator at the industry.
Experienced in leading and directing teams in multiple continents and backgrounds to drive business and product KPIs.
Work Experience
@NXP Semiconductors
-
Developed data-driven, memory-efficient software/hardware solutions to cater to mass-market and customer-centric designs. [Product]
-
Steered innovative proposals towards the company's long-term goals in edge AI/ML, identifying product and future execution/research challenges articulating requirements regarding design closeness to design size with respect to use-case realization and utilization. [AI/ML]
-
Engineered simulators from scratch that integrate digital designs and analog models to deliver end-to-end simulations, supporting new feature design and product deployment. Responsible for multiple unique sensing and Rx automation benches and data pipelines/dashboards to understand data/model drifts in test environments. [Simulators]
-
Facilitated early development of joint Wi-Fi sensing in standalone RF, enabling multiple SoC features to deliver seamless and consistent pre-processed signals for further algorithm development. [Wi-Fi Sensing]
-
Collaborated in architecting Tx and Rx datapaths to support multiple RF/BBUD interface requirements for >= 802.11be. [Datapath]
-
Resolved customer issues by enabling new methods of fault testing, creating diagnostics through probe-based simulations/emulations, hypothesis testing, and feedback loop automation. Reduced resolution time aiding customer product launches, design wins, and resolving use-case vs. compliance conflicts. [Customer Issue Debug]
@Ford Motor Company
Developed design-thinking based solution on Bluetooth LE 5.0 for Vulnerable Road User (VRU), i.e. bike safety [Passive Safety]
-
Researched, led and designed end-to-end range, coexistence and scale/congestion implications on large scale Bluetooth LE-based VRU technology deployment.
Worked with multi-industry working groups to lead innovative solution to enhance in-house customer and VRU-vehicle experience *Lead presenter in R&A Expo for VRU Safety
Demonstrated quarterly (phased) progress to leadership through interactive data sketches from idea->innovations->system testing/integrations->prototype->integration->controlled and semi-controlled field tests
* Nominated as a lead and finalist for internal R&A Research Excellence award along with FNV4 and Paak
Led initiatives and innovations to support Ford's goal to be 'Always On' by introducing new connectivity technologies to the leadership.
Education
Ph.D in Computer Engineering @University of Nebraska-Lincoln [2020]
Masters in Telecommunications Engineering @University of Nebraska-Lincoln [2015-2017]
Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded Systems Design @Center for Development of Advanced Computing [2014]
B.Tech in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering @Techno India, Kolkata [2013]
Research
I have been fortunated enough to work on a multitude of problems and drive them to demonstrations, publications and products. Below is a timeline of my research and contributions to the field of wireless, automotive and semiconductor industry and academia.
@NXP
leading AI wireless sensing and desensing projects.
@NXP
built new AI labs in US and India for wireless research and development.
@NXP
* voter in 802.11, contributing towards 802.11bq
* developing next generation of wireless sensing platforms and end-to-end simulation environments for Wi-Fi datapaths.
@NXP
*Principal
*architecting industry's first KPIs and methods to
support customer use-cases in colocation scenarios.
@NXP
Joined NXP
@Ford
Final results and insights given to the stakeholders to deploy Bluetooth LE 5.0 for VRU safety.
@Ford
* leading Phase II - III (Proving grounds to M-City Ann Arbor) Vru
safety field tests with multiple internal and external team
* helped build wireless research lab from scratch with a budget of 500K to support sensing,
V2X and Paak research
*led research as a Co-PI with multiple universities to develop 5G/LTE V2X algorithms and channel models
* built a really fun demo to show V2X capability in CARLA sim environment to demonstrate Automated Valet Parking (AVP)
with V2X based next waypoint unicasts.
* Finished PhD
* Joined Ford Motor Company
@UNL
* pioneered behavioral-social D2D communications towards finding optimal user-association relative to user-mobility and social-behavior.
* developed formal verification methods for cyber-physical systems with Ricci-flows
* created 5G-NR and LTE simulators for high-speed train networks
* worked with STRATCOM for CPS security and safety
* collaborated to develop one of the first demonstrations of VR telepresence with multi-arm robotcs in remote education
Awards & Recognition
NXP Sony Procurement Award [2023]
Finalist for Ford R&A Excellence Award [2022]
UNL Electrical & Computer Engineering Grad Poster Competition Awards [2018]
ASME Rail Transportation Division (RTD) Grad Student Conf Scholarship [2017]
College of Engineering Outstanding Masters Thesis [2017]
Nebraska Engineering Recruitment Fellowship [2017-2019]
Milton Mohr Fellowship [2019]
Holling Family Teaching Fellowship [2019-2020]
NSF-Infocom Travel Grant [2019]
IEEE Communications Society Student Travel Grant [2018]
Publications
-
Patents
-
"System and method for preventing interactions between vehicle and moving object"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC [2025] [Link] -
"Dynamic switching of Bluetooth LE PHY for extended non-connectable advertisements"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC [2024] [Link] -
"Systems and methods for conveying information about a traffic event via vehicle communications"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC [2024] [Link] -
"Systems and methods for providing targeted content to users"
Ford Global Technologies, LLC [2024] [Link] -
Journal Articles & Conference Papers
-
"Topography relaxation in determining unsafe state intersections for uncertain cps"
IEEE Sensors Letters [2020] -
"BIOTRUST: A Novel Biologically Inspired Optimal TRusted User Social Trait-Aware Association for Wireless Proximity Services in 5G and Beyond"
PhD Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln [2020] -
"A new framework for automatic modulation classification using deep belief networks"
IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) [2020] -
"Wireless communication for high-speed passenger rail services: A study on the design and evaluation of a unified architecture"
Joint Rail Conference [2020] -
"Detecting dark cars using a novel multi-antenna aei tag reader design for increased read distance and reliability"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference [2020] -
"Evaluation of machine learning-driven automatic modulation classifiers under various signal models"
Joint Rail Conference [2020] -
"Detecting dark cars in railroad operations using multi-antenna beamforming for long-distance discovery and identification of aei tags"
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) [2020] -
"Accuracy analysis of feature-based automatic modulation classification with blind modulation detection"
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) [2019] -
"High speed train wireless communication: Handover performance analysis for different radio access technologies"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference [2019] -
"A framework for high-speed passenger train wireless network radio evaluations"
Joint Rail Conference [2019] -
"A novel biomimicry-based analysis of d2d user association retention for achieving maximal throughput"
International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) [2019] -
"A novel behavioral Social-Aware D2D user association scheme based on Self-Propelled voronoi"
IEEE INFOCOM Workshops [2019] -
"A novel approach to social-behavioral d2d trust associations using self-propelled voronoi"
IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall) [2019] -
"Analysis of distribution test-based and feature-based approaches toward automatic modulation classification"
IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) [2019] -
"A novel proposal for implementing massive mimo and user and control plane decoupling with upwarc"
International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS) [2018] -
"A new railyard safety approach for detection and tracking of personnel and dynamic objects using software-defined radar"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference [2018] -
"5G-UCDA in High Speed Rail with Multi Antenna-to-Logical Cell Circular FIFO Mapping Strategy"
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) [2018] -
"Towards an integrated approach for distributed 5G cell association in UDN under interference and mobility"
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) [2018] -
"Performance analysis of a novel passenger train wireless communications architecture for high-speed trains"
International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNeT) [2018] -
"Performance evaluation of feature-based automatic modulation classification"
International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) [2018] -
"Human Interactions and User Association in Device-to-Device Communications in Terms of Biological Jamming"
IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) [2018] -
"Providing reliable throughput with upwarc as a wireless communications architecture for high-speed trains"
IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall) [2018] -
"Novel concept of d2d mobility modeling utilizing biological cell jamming/unjamming paradigm"
IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) [2017] -
"A survey of railyard worker protection approaches and system design considerations"
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference [2017] -
"A review of workspace challenges and wearable solutions in railroads and construction"
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) [2017] -
"Decoupled u/c plane architecture for hetnets and high speed mobility: research directions & challenges"
IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) [2017] -
"Fusion of VR and Teleoperation for Innovative Near-Presence Laboratory Experience in Engineering Education"
IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology [2017] -
"Upwarc: User plane wireless adaptable reliable communication, a new architecture for high speed train passenger internet services"
IEEE 13th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) [2017] -
"Towards a modular iot network model: Low power radio domain use-case in linear-topology wireless sensor network"
International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking (MoWNeT) [2016] -
"A Survey of Wireless Communication Technologies & Their Performance for High Speed Railways"
Journal of Transportation Technologies [2016]
Let's Connect
Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just to say hello!