Signal Processing Engineer
I have created this site as a place to exhibit my projects, resume, and professional life. I intend for colleagues, potential employers and business contacts, and friends to visit this site, and to hopefully gain some insight into who I am as a professional.
I defended my PhD Thesis, titled Stochastic Time Reversal for Radar Detection in December 2011, and submitted my final dissertation to the Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University that same month. I was selected as a 2007 NDSEG (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate) Fellow.
I have also spent time contributing to the Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR) and the Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator, an effort let by the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. My work is focused on flaw detection for pipelines, leveraging my expertise with Time Reversal to aid an inter-disciplinary team that is utilizing machine learning, signal processing, and guided wave theory to achieve our goals.
I began my graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University in the Fall of 2006, working within the Time Reversal Imaging Lab, under the direction of my advisor Professor José M.F. Moura. Assistant Professor Yuanwei Jin (UMES) also provided instruction during my first two years, while he worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Project Scientist.
The summer of 2010 was spent in Lexington, MA, working for Lincoln Laboratory as a Summer Research Intern. My task was to aid in the processing of, and investigate the potential application of Compressive Sensing (CS) to, the world's first set of experimental airborne data ever collected for Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) Radar.
The summer of 2007 was spent in Burlington, MA, working for The MITRE Corp as a Signal Processing Engineer. I can't really go into details, but some of my work was presented at the 2008 SPIE Defense & Security Conference in Orlando, Florida in March of 2008. A link to this paper, titled Target Recognition using HRR Profile-Based Incoherent SAR (InSAR) Image Formation, can be found in my list of publications.
I completed my undergraduate degree at Villanova University in May of 2006. I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a Minor in Mathematics, and a Concentration in Honors, all while remaining heavily involved both academically and socially in various clubs and service organizations outside of class. For my achievements, I was awarded the Engineering Alumni Society's Dean Robert Lynch award [also check out the Engineering Newsletter,page 13], given to one graduating engineer every year, on June 9th, 2006. In addition, I received several other prestigious honors from various departments and programs affiliated with Villanova University, including:
The final two awards were presented in recognition of my senior design project, titled An Intelligent Patient Monitoring System for Hospital ICUs, this project also resulted in two published papers (one at AMCIS '06 and the other at IEEE/EMBC '06) which can be found in my list of publications.
I spent the summers of 2005 and 2006 as a CREST Trainee (Career Research Experience in Science & Technology) with the Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate of the U.S. Army CERDEC (Communications Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center) in Fort Monmouth, NJ. I spent my time with CERDEC in the Sensor Networks Branch of the Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD), evaluating new wireless sensor network technologies, helping to plan and setup a new RFID testing laboratory, and evaluating SBIR Phase I proposals.
