Michael Hoffman

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Michael Hoffman

Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
SEC C290E
Lincoln NE 68588-0511
Phone
402-472-1979 On-campus 2-1979
Email
mhoffman1@unl.edu

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.

Education

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., 1992 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
  • M.S.E.E., 1987 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
  • B.S.E.E., 1985 Rice University Houston, TX