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Shyam Babu Mahato

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Shyam Babu Mahato, PhD student

Shyam


Shyam was born in a small rural village (Giddha, Dhanusha) of the southern part of Nepal. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering (B.E.) from Institute of Engineering (IoE), Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal, in 1999-2003.After his graduation, he worked as a Teaching Assistant for a year in Purbanchal University School of Engineering and Technology (PuSET) as well as in Eastern Engineering College, Biratnagar, Nepal.

In 2005, he got an IMPIT scholarship from Finnish government to study M.Sc.IT in Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. He graduated in September 2007 as Master of Science in Technology. His Master thesis was titled: “Performance Evaluation of Six-Sectored Hexagonal UMTS (WCDMA) Cellular Networks”.

After his graduation, in November 2007, he joined European Communications Engineering (ECE) Ltd, Espoo, Finland, where he worked as a consultant in the field of Radio Network Planning and Optimization for GSM and UMTS networks. He participated in different projects such as 3G Optimization in NSN Stockholm, Sweden; NSN 2G Nominal Planning, Nigeria; NSN 2G Nominal Planning, Burkina Faso; T-Mobile RAN KPIs Monitoring NSN, Huntingdon UK; Elisa Benchmarking I & II, Finland. 

In December 2009, he got a PhD Research Studentship in CWiND at the Institute for Research in Applicable Computing at the University of Bedfordshire. Currently he is pursuing his PhD in LTE-Advanced.

He also enjoys volleyball, football and badminton, as well as sight-seeing, travelling, photography.

Awards

  • Scholarship for BE study in IOE, Pulchowk Campus, Nepal.
  • IMPIT Scholarship for M.Sc.IT by Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
  • PhD Research Studentship University of Bedfordshire, UK.

Contact

E: shyam.mahato@beds.ac.uk

T: +44(0)7512366096

Bedfordshire University

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