Experience

Employment History:

• Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, Aug. 2008 - present •
• Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, Aug. 1999 - 2008
• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska, Jan. 1993 - Aug. 1999
• Research Assistant and Instructor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, June 1988 - Dec. 1992.
• Systems Engineer, TRW Inc., Space Communications Division, June 1985-Aug. 1988. Conducted studies into both phased array antenna systems and adaptive multiple beam antenna systems and worked as a unit engineer on closed government projects

Graduate Advising and Teaching:

PhD Students
 

• Daniel White, "Low Power Analog Processing," Ph.D., Dec. 2014.
• Peter William, "Low Complexity Feature Extraction for Classification of Harmonic Signals," Ph.D., Dec 2011.
• Nathan Schemm, “A Single-Chip Ultra-Wideband Based Wireless Sensor Network Node”, Ph.D., Dec. 2010, co-advisor S. Balkir.
• Zhiqiang Lin, “CMOS Image Sensor with Focal Plane SPIHT Image Compression,” Ph.D., January 2008.
• Dongsheng Bi “State Machine Interpretation of Arithmetic Codes for Joint Source and Channel Coding,” Ph.D., August 2006, co-advisor K. Sayood.
• Boon Leng Cheong “Adaptive Array Processing Using the Turbulent Eddy Profiler,” Ph.D., May, 2005, co-advisor R. Palmer.
• Zhao Li, “Robust speech coding using microphone arrays,” Ph.D., Feb. 1998.

MS Students

• Kurt Bauer, M.S., December, 2014.
• Dustin Feller, M.S., December, 2014.
• Anantha Krishna Nelliparthi, "A 2-D Processor Array for Massively Parallel Image Processing," M.S., December, 2011, co-advised with S. Balkir.
• Chris Schrage, "Isotope Identification and Source Directional Determination Using Gamma Radiation Profiling," M.S., December, 2011, co-advised with S. Balkir.
• C. Aaron Hall, “The FBLMS Adaptive Filter Applied as an Acoustic Echo Canceller on a Texas Instruments TMSC64X DSP,” May 2009.
• Dirk Neumann, “Dual Input UWB Interference Canceling Front End in CMOS,” M.S., August, 2007, co-advised with S. Balkir.
• Jing Xu, “Simulation of Coherent Radar Imaging Using ContinuousWave Noise Radar,” M.S., December, 2006.
• Daniel White, “A Low-Power Class-D CMOS Amplifier,” M.S., December 2006.
•  Venkata Syam Sundar Tellabati, “Antenna Array Calibration Techniques for Atmo- spheric Imaging Radars,” M.S., August 2005, co-advised with R. Palmer.
• Lifeng Xu, “Iterative Joint Source Channel Coding Using Arithmetic Codes,” M.S., December, 2004, co-advised with K. Sayood.
• David McCreight, “The Effect of FM Discrimination Induced Phase Wraps on 4 DQPSK Signal Detection,” M.S., December 2003.
• Hui Tong, “Application of Adaptive Arrays to Atmospheric Remote Sensing,” M.S. August 2003, co-advised with R. Palmer.
• Boon Leng Cheong, “Joint Beamforming and MBE Vocoding of Noisy Speech Using a Microphone Array,” M.S. May 2002.
• EiMon Phyu, “High Quality Speech Coding,” M.S., August 2001, co-advised with K. Sayood.
• Jason S. Smith “Real-time DSP test platform for multiple microphone systems,” M.S., May 2001.
• Cenk Demiroglu, “A new technique for joint source channel coding using arithmetic codes,” M.S., December 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood.
• Gulay Ozkan, “Robust joint source channel coding of images using variable length codes,”, M.S., December 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood.
• Ramazan Kerek, “Implementation and evaluation of recursively indexed vector quantization on multiple use environmental datasets,” M.S., August 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood.
• Qianying Bao, “Multiple description image coding for noisy channels by vector quantization,” M.S., May 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood.
• Billy D. Pettijohn, “Joint source/channel coding using arithmetic codes,” M.S., April 2000, co-advised with K. Sayood.
• XiaoFeng Lu, “Calibration and evaluation of adaptive microphone arrays,” M.S., April 1998.
• Chad Pinkelman, “Real-time implementation of adaptive spatial filters,” M.S., May 1997.