Ph.D. - MS - Undergraduate
Dogu Arifler finished his BSEE (May 1997), MSEE (May 1999), and Ph.D.E.E. (May 2004) at UT Austin. His dissertation is entitled Network Tomography Based on Flow Level Measurements (co-advisors were Prof. Gustavo de Veciana and Prof. Brian L. Evans). His Master's report was entitled Dynamic Network Management for Service-Driven Networks (advisor was Prof. San-qi Li). As mentioned in his Vita section of his PhD dissertation, Dr. Arifler worked full-time at National Instruments in Austin as a software engineer from July 1999 to December 2000. His senior design project (Spring 1997) was to design and implement a client-server architecture for a Web-Enabled Simulation framework for microcontrollers and digital signal processor simulators and debuggers. Upon finishing his PhD, Dr. Arifler joined the Dept. of Computer Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Arifler can be reached at dogu.arifler AT emu.edu.tr.
Guner Arslan finished his Ph.D.E.E. at UT Austin in December of 2000. His dissertation was entitled Equalization for Discrete Multitone Transceivers. He received his BSEE (1994) and MSEE (1996) degrees at the Yildiz Technical University. His MS thesis was entitled Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Cancellation. He began his Ph.D.E.E. studies at UT Austin in the Spring of 1998. He has published papers in real-time DTMF detection, neural networks for beamforming, automated fingerprint analysis, synthetic aperture radar image compression, image quality assessment, and equalization for ADSL systems. In the Fall 2000 semester, he was the head teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory course. In 2001 and 2002, he worked as Design Engineer at Cicada Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. From 2002 to 2007, he worked as a System Design Engineer at Silicon Laboratories in Austin, Texas. Since 2007, he has been working as a Staff System Design Engineering at NXP in Austin, Texas, which had become ST-NXP Wireles and more recently ST-Ericsson. He can be reached at guner.arslan@stnwireless.com.
Serene Banerjee finished her PhDEE degree in August, 2004. Her dissertation was entitled Composition-Guided Image Acquisition. She received her BSEE degree (1999) at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India, and her MSEE degree (2001) at UT Austin. Her BS thesis was Image Matching and 3-D Image Reconstruction using Wavelet Transform Techniques for stereo imaging. At UT Austin, she was the teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory in Fall 1999 and the Senior Design Project course in Spring 2000. As mentioned in the Vita section of her PhD dissertation, Dr. Banerjee worked at Nokia in Dallas, Texas, in the Summer of 2001, Ricoh California Research Center in Menlo Park, California, in Summer of 2002. In Summer 2004, he was an intern at Sozotek Wireless in Austin, Texas. From November 2004 to July 2005, she was a CAD Engineer at Intel in Portland, Oregon, where she worked in imaging for optical proximity correction in next-generation semiconductor process technology. From August 2005 to November 2006, she was a Senior Software Engineer at Texas Instruments in Bangalore, India, and worked on improving image/video codecs on embedded digital signal processors. Since November 2006, she has been a Research Scientist at HP Labs in Bangalore, India. Her current research is in document image processing. She can be reached at banerjee.serene@gmail.com.
Niranjan Damera-Venkata finished his Ph.D.E.E. at UT Austin in December of 2000. His dissertation was entitled Analysis and Design of Vector Error Diffusion Systems for Image Halftoning. He received his BSEE degree (1997) from the University of Madras in Madras, India, and his MSEE degree (1999) from UT Austin. In his BSEE project work, he developed efficient, automated procedures for determining the stability of two-dimensional, non-separable infinite impulse response filters. During the 1997-1998 academic year, he was the teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory course. As a graduate student, he completed research projects in analog filter optimization, digital filter design, multidimensional filter stability and stabilization, and image halftoning. Since June 2000, Dr. Damera-Venkata has been working full-time at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, where he is currently a Principal Scientist in the Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Laboratory. He can be reached at damera@exch.hpl.hp.com.
Ming Ding graduated with his PhDEE degree from UT Austin in August, 2004. His dissertation was entitled Channel Equalization to Achieve High Bit Rates In Discrete Multitone Systems. As mentioned in the Vita section of his PhD dissertation, Dr. Ding received his BSEE degree (1995) from Nankai University in Tianjin, P.R. China, and his MSEE degree (1999) from the National University of Singapore. His MS thesis was Time Domain Equalizer Design For DMT-ADSL Transceivers. He has significant academic and industrial experience in wireline and wireless communications systems. For his MS degree, he published significant work in channel equalization for ADSL transceivers. From January to August of 2000, he was an R&D Engineer for the Centre for Wireless Communications at the National University of Singapore developing OFDM, Bluetooth FM radio, and wideband CDMA systems. He enrolled at UT Austin in Fall 2000. During the Fall 2000 semester, he was a teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory course. As mentioned in the Vita section of his PhD dissertation, Dr. Ding was an intern at the Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processing Solutions R&D Center in Dallas, Texas, during the summers of 2001, 2002, and 2003. From September 2004 to October 2005, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bandspeed in Austin, Texas. Currently, he is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom in San Jose, California. He can be reached at mingdingcn@gmail.com.
Kyungtae Han finished his PhD degree in August 2006. His PhD dissertation was entitled Automating Transformations from Floating-point to Fixed-point for Implementing Digital Signal Processing Algorithms. He received his MSEE degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in February 1998, and his BSEE degree from Korea University, Chungnam, Korea, in February 1996. His MS thesis was entitled Carrier Synchronization Scheme Using Input Signal Interpolation for Digital Receivers. From February 2000 to July 2002, he worked as a research engineer at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea. At ETRI, he developed multicarrier modulation transceivers for digital audio broadcasting and wideband CDMA systems. For system-level simulation and tradeoffs, he has been using the Coware Signal Processing Worksystem (SPW), National Instruments LabVIEW, Synopsys COSSAP, and UC Berkeley Ptolemy Classic. He is fluent in C and C++, as well as VHDL and assembly languages for several programmable digital signal processors (TI C30, TI C5000, and Motorola 56000). Kyungtae was a teaching assistant for the Senior Design Project course in Spring 2003 and Spring 2004. In Summer and Fall 2005, he was intern at Intel Labs in Portland, Oregon. Since Summer 2006, he has been a Senior Hardware Engineer at Intel Labs in Portland, Oregon.
Thomas D. Kite finished his Ph.D.E.E. degree in August of 1998. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Design and Quality Assessment of Forward and Inverse Error Diffusion Halftoning Algorithms. (co-advisors were Prof. Alan C. Bovik and Prof. Brian L. Evans). For his Ph.D. dissertation, Tom developed a formal framework for analyzing, comparing, and designing, forward and inverse image halftoning algorithms by drawing on his experience in audio and acoustics. As mentioned in the Vita section of his PhD dissertation, Dr. Kite received his B.S. in Physics from Oxford University in England in 1993, and his M.S.E.E. in Audio and Acoustics at UT Austin in 1995. Tom has industrial experience in analog/digital hardware design, hardware/software design, and embedded digital signal processors. As mentioned on his online resume, he worked as an intern at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California (Summer 1997) and Xerox Labs in Webster, New York (Summer 1998). Since fall 1998, he has been with Audio Precision in Portland, Oregon, where he is currently Vice President of Engineering. He can be reached at tomk@audioprecision.com.
Milos Milosevic finished his Ph.D.E.E. at UT Austin in May 2003. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Maximizing Data Rate of Discrete Multitone Systems using Time Domain Equalization Design. He received his BSEE (1996) and his MSEE (1998) degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His MS thesis was in tomographic imaging. While he was a PhD student from 1998 to 2003, he was employed full-time in Austin, first at Freescale Semiconductor, then at Texas Instruments, and finally at Schlumberger, as mentioned in the Vita section of his PhD dissertation. He has been with Schlumberger since June 2001, where he is currently a Principal Engineer in Wireline Acquisition, Power and Telemetry, in Sugar Land, Texas. He can be reached at mmilosevic@austin.rr.com.
Vishal Monga finished his PhDEE degree at UT Austin in August 2005. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Perceptual Based Methods for Robust Image Hashing. He received a BSEE degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in May 2001 and an MSEE degree from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2003. During 2001-2003, he was a teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory. As mentioned in the Vita section of his PhD dissertation, he was a summer intern at Xerox Labs in Webster, New York, in summers of 2003 and 2004, and a summer 2005 intern at Microsoft Research Labs in Redmond, WA. Since finishing his PhDEE degree in August 2005, he has been working full-time at Xerox Labs in El Segundo, California. He can be reached at Vishal.Monga@xeroxlabs.com.
Wade C. Schwartzkopf finished his PhD degree at UT Austin in August 2002. His dissertation was entitled Maximum Likelihood Techniques for Joint Segmentation-Classification of Multi-spectral Chromosome Images (co-advisors were Prof. Brian L. Evans and Prof. Alan C. Bovik). He received his BS EECS double major (1997) from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an MSEE degree (1998) from UT Austin. His research interests in artificial intelligence and image processing are motived by his interests in Biomedical Engineering. Wade is currently a Research Scientist at Integrity Applications Inc. in Chantilly, VA. Wade can be reached via web.utwade@spamgourmet.com.
Zukang Shen officially graduated with his PhD degree in May 2006. His dissertation was entitled Multiuser Resource Allocation in Multichannel Wireless Communication Systems (co-advisors were Prof. Jeffrey G. Andrews and Prof. Brian L. Evans). He received a BSEE degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in May, 2001, and an MSEE degree from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2003. His research interests are in multicarrier, multi-antenna wireless communication systems. During 2001-2003, he was a teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory. As mentioned in the Vita section of his dissertation, he was an intern at Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas, in Spring and Summer of 2004. In Summer 2005, he was an intern at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas. From June 2006 to March 2009, he worked as System Engineer with the Wireless Infrastructure Group of Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas. He is currently a System Engineer at Datang Mobile in Beijing, China. He can be reached at shenzukang@gmail.com.
K. Clint Slatton received his BSAE (1993), MSAE (1997), MSEE (1999), and Ph.D.E.E. (2001) degrees from UT Austin. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Adaptive Multiscale Estimation for Fusing Image Data (co-advisors were Prof. Melba Crawford and Prof. Brian L. Evans). He has been researching aerial and satellite imaging since 1993, including one year of full-time work experience at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasedena, California. From January 2002 to August of 2003, he worked as a full-time research engineer at the Center for Space Research at UT Austin. Since September 2003, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He can be reached at slatton@ece.ufl.edu.
Murat Torlak finished his Ph.D.E.E. degree at UT Austin in August of 1999. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Estimation and Capacity of Channels in Smart Antenna Wireless Communication Systems (co-advisors were Prof. Guanghan Xu and Prof. Brian L. Evans). As mentioned in the Vita section of his PhD dissertation, Dr. Torlak received his B.S.E.E. degree (1992) from Haceteppe University, his M.S.E.E. (1995) from The University of Texas at Austin. In his dissertation research, he developed robust smart antennas at the base station for improving performance of second-generation mobile outdoor communications systems. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Electrical Engineering Department. He can be reached at torlak@utdallas.edu.
Dong Wei finished his Ph.D.E.E. in August of 1998. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Coiflet-Type Wavelets: Theory, Design, and Applications (co-advisors were Prof. Alan C. Bovik and Prof. Brian L. Evans). Dong received his B.S.E.E. from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 1992, and his M.S.E.E. from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1995. His M.S.E.E. thesis was entitled Image Data Compression using Wavelet Decomposition. For his Ph.D. dissertation, he developed new families of one-dimensional and non-separable multidimensional wavelets. He is currently with SBC Labs in Austin, Texas, which is now called at&t Labs. He can be reached at wei@labs.sbc.com.
Ian C. Wong finished his PhDEE degree in May 2007. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled A Unified Framework for Optimal Resource Allocation in Multiuser Multicarrier Wireless Systems. He graduated with his BSEE degree from the University of the Philippines in April 2000 and the MSEE degree from UT Austin in May 2004. His senior design project was the design and implementation of an ADSL system using TI TMS320C6000 Digital Signal Processors. From June 2000 to July 2002, he worked full-time as a systems engineer at the Advanced Science and Technology Institute in Manila, Philippines, where he developed BlueTooth transceivers. In Fall 2002 and Spring 2003, he was a teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory. In Summer 2003 and 2004, he was an intern at National Instruments in Austin, Texas. In Summer 2005 and 2006, he was an intern for Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. In Spring 2007, he was the co-instructor and teaching assistant for EE 351M Digital Signal Processing (theory). From Summer 2007 to February 2009, he was employed as a Systems Engineer III in the Wireless Mobile and Systems Group of Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. Since March 2009, he has been a Senior RF/Communications Software Engineer at National Instruments in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at Ian.Wong@NI.com.
Wael Barakat received his MSEE degree from UT Austin in May of 2009 and his BSEE degree at the American University of Beirut in May of 2007. He currently works full-time at Qualcomm in Santa Clara, California.
David Brunke received his MSEE degree from UT Austin in May of 2000 and his BSEE degree at Texas A&M in May of 1998. In his B.S.E.E. project work, he developed an indoor real-time wireless modem. He currently works full-time at the UT Applied Research Laboratories in the Advanced Sonar Group of the Sonar Development Division.
Young H. Cho finished his MSEE degree at UT Austin in May 2001. His MS report is entitled Implementation of a 3-D Sonar Beamformer Using the Computational Process Network Model on a Synergy Quad PowerPC G4 with AltiVec Board. In May of 1996, he finished his B.A. degree in Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1996 to 1999, he worked full-time at Myricom designing and implementing high-speed networks and distributed systems. From 2001 to 2005, he was a PhDEE student at UCLA. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at UCLA in Los Angeles, California, and founder of Open Acceleration Systems Research in Chatsworth, California. He can be reached at younghc at gmail dot com.
Niranjan Damera-Venkata graduated with his MS degree from UT Austin in May of 1999. He finished his Ph.D. at UT in December of 2000. See his entry under Ph.D. alumni.
Amey A. Deosthali received his BSEE in May of 1996 from Pune, India, and his MSEE in May of 1998 from UT Austin. His MS report was entitled Embedded Signal Processing on Microcontrollers, From June 1998 to May 2000, he worked for Schlumberger at their Sugarland facility, which is located near Houston, Texas. From May 2000 to December 2001, he worked as a DSP Engineer on GSM cellular products for Ericsson in Durham, North Carolina. In Sping 2002, he worked at HelloSoft on as a Senior Member of Technical Staff on GSM/GPRS development in Campbell, California. Since March 2002, he has been at Texas Instruments, where is currently a Senior Manager in the Wireless Division in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Deosthali can be reached at amey_deosthali@yahoo.com.
Srikanth Gummadi received his BSEE degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India, in May of 1997, and his MSEE degree from UT Austin in December of 1998. His Master's report was entitled Space-Time Processing for Wireless Base Stations. In 1999, he was a full-time Research Engineer at the Motorola Research Labs in Ft. Worth, Texas. He currently works at Texas Instruments in Santa Rosa, California (formerly Alantro Communications). He can be reached at sgummadi@usa.net.
Thomas P. Higdon graduated with his MSEE degree from UT Austin in May of 2008. His MSEE report was entitled The Implementation of a Sonar Beamformer on the Cell Broadband Engine. Thomas works full-time in software-defined radios at Vanu in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Norman James graduated with an MSEE degree in December 1999 through the Executive Software Engineering Program. He completed an MS Report entitled PLL Modelling Using Software Tools. He works for IBM in Austin, Texas, and can be reached at njames@ece.utexas.edu.
Jeff Livingston graduated with an MSEE degree in December 2006. He received his BS Electrical Engineering degree from The University of Texas at Austin in August 2001, and his BA in Music (Jazz Piano) from the University of New Orleans in 1993. He completed an MS Report entitled Time-Scale Modification of Audio Signals Using the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform. He has been working full-time as an Audio DSP Firmware Engineer for Cirrus Logic in Austin, Texas, since Spring 2006. He previously worked full-time for Cirrus Logic from September 2001 to August 2004.
Biao Lu graduated with her MS degree from UT Austin in December of 1997, and has continued as a full-time Ph.D. student under Prof. Brian L. Evans. See her entry under Ph.D. students.
Guy Maor received his M.S.E.E. degree in Spring 1997. He worked in the Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory during the Summer of 1997 on the Ptolemy software environment. From 1997 to 2000, he was a full-time engineer at HP/Agilent EEsof in Westlake Village, California. At EEsof, he was instrumental in developing a commercial version of Ptolemy, known as HP Ptolemy, which is part of Advanced Design System for mixed analog, RF, and digital design for wireless communication systems. He is currently working full-time in Austin, Texas.
Alex G. Olson received his BS Computer Engineering degree from Louisiana State University in Spring 2003. In Summer 2004, he was an intern at SigmaTel in Austin, Texas, in VLSI testing. In Summer 2005, he was an intern at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in distributed signal/image processing. In Summer and Fall 2006, he was an intern at Schlumberger in Sugar Land, Texas, in telemetry systems. He is currently working full-time at Schlumberger in Sugar Land, Texas.
Charles R. Powers graduated with an MSEE degree in May 1998 through the Option III Executive Software Engineering Program. His MS Report was entitled A Review of Performance Analysis (Benchmarking) Approaches for Embedded Microprocessors and Microcontrollers. Since 1988, he has been with Motorola in Austin, Texas. From 1988 to 1998, he worked at Motorola in intelligent transportation systems and microcontroller benchmarking. Since 1998, he has been a Director of Internet Standards Strategy for the Motorola Corporation. He can be reached at chuck.powers@motorola.com.
Hamood Rehman graduated with his MS degree from UT Austin in December of 2006, and has continued as a full-time Ph.D. student under Prof. Brian L. Evans. See his entry under Ph.D. students.
Rabih Saliba received his MSEE degree from UT Austin in May of 2009 and his BSEE degree at the American University of Beirut in May of 2007. He currently works full-time at Five9 Network Systems in Palo Alto, California.
Wade Schwartzkopf graduated with his MS degree in December of 1998 and his PhDEE degree in August of 2002 from UT Austin. See his alumni entry above.
Brian Stein graduated with his MS degree in May of 2008. He currently works for Zeta Associates in Fairfax, Virginia.
Magesh Valliappan received his BSEE degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India, in May of 1998, and his MSEE degree from UT Austin in May of 2000. For his graduate studies, he worked on halftone image compression and transmission, ADSL modem design, and digital IIR filter optimization. During the Fall 1998 semester, he was the teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory course. Since June of 2000, he has been working full-time at Cicada Semiconductor in Austin, Texas.
Daifeng Wang finished his MSEE degree in 2006. He received his BS Electrical Engineering degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Spring 2004. In Summer 2005, Daifeng was an intern in the RF Measurements Group at National Instruments in Austin, Texas. In Spring 2006, he was a teaching assistant for the Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory course.
Moiz Ahmad completed his senior design project in Fall 2004 entitled "Indoor Wireless Optical Communications System using LEDs". He was teamed with Robert Kang.
Holly Ammerman developed the kernel on a TMS320C32 digital signal processor to support a Web-based real-time debugger running a 386 coprocessor in a board used for Web-based data acquisition, with help from Concur Systems in Austin, Texas. She was teamed with Stanley Law on the Spring 1998 Senior Design Project. From 1998 to 2000, she was working for Concur Systems..
Dogu Arifler graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering in the Spring of 1997. From January to December of 1997, he developed the Web-Enabled Simulation (WEDS) framework. He completed the initial prototype for his Spring 1997 senior honors design project. WEDS is a configurable graphical user interface written as Java applets coupled with client-server architecture written in Java to provide a framework for making instruction set architecture simulators available on the World Wide Web. WEDS is currently connected to TMS320C30 and MC68HC11 simulators written by Chris Moy, Saleem Marwat, and Brian Evans. Dogu brings an outstanding software engineering background with him. Dogu finished a PhDEE degree at UT Austin in Spring 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Brian L. Evans and Prof. Gustavo de Veciana. Dogu is currently an Assistant Professor at Eastern Mediterranean University.
Farris Bar completed a senior design project in Spring 2002 entitled "Embedded Ethernet Based Data Acquisition System". He did not have a partner. He graduated in Summer 2002.
Wade Berglund completed a senior design project in Spring 2001 entitled "Time-Domain Equalizer Design on the Motorola 56300 DSP". He can be reached at wadeberglund@yahoo.com. He currently works full-time at AMD in Austin.
Gary Bernitz completed a senior design project in Spring 2001 entitled "Web-Based IIR Filter Designer". He was teamed with Vivek Mani.
Kevin Boyd graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. He researched, designed, and implemented a real-time Department of Defense LPC10 standard compliant 2400 bits/sec voice encoder/decoder (vocoder) on a TMS320C30 Evaluation Module for his Fall 1997 senior design project with Arvind Thirunarayanan. He works for National OilWell in Houston, Texas.
Justin Burk developed new design techniques for analog phase locked loop filters for his EE464H Senior Design Project. He graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1998. He is now working for Raytheon in Greenville, Texas, and can be reached at (burkjd@gvl.esys.com).
Jerel Canales designed and implemented two double-precision floating-point time-domain equalizer methods for ADSL to work under fixed-point arithmetic on the TI TMS320C54 16-bit fixed-point digital signal processor in Fall 2000. His lab partner was Scott Margo. Jerel graduated in Fall 2000, and currently works for TI in Houston. He can be reached at jerelcan@yahoo.com.
Daniel Chan worked on a binary-to-binary translator for TI DSP processors (TMS320C5x to TMS320C54x) for his Senior Design Project in the Summer 1999 semester. He was teamed with Peter Ka Lee.
John Chang (jchang@ece.utexas.edu) developed a Web-enabled home security system for his Spring 1999 Senior Design Project. The project involved developing new hardware interfaces to an alarm system security box from the mini-Web server by Concur Systems Inc. He was teamed with Andy Chao. He also finished an MSEE degree at UT Austin.
Robert Chang (changrob@mail.utexas.edu) completed a Fall 2005 Senior Design Project. His project was an "Integration of a Doppler Velocity Logger onto a Mobile Barge at Lake Travis Test Station". He worked alone on the project.
Andy Chao is working on a Web-enabled home security system for his Spring 1999 Senior Design Project. The project involves developing new hardware interfaces to an alarm system security box from the mini-Web server by Concur Systems Inc. He was teamed with John Chang. Andy is a graduate EE student at Stanford University.
Andrew Chen is working on using a mini-Web server by Concur Systems Inc. to deliver remote voice over the Internet for his Spring 1999 Senior Design Project. He was teamed with Howard Chen.
Howard Chen used a mini-Web server by Concur Systems Inc. to deliver remote voice over the Internet for his Spring 1999 Senior Design Project. He was teamed with Andrew Chen.
Yeeland Chen completed his Spring 2006 Senior Design Project entitled "Design of two low-complexity demosaicking algorithms on an FPGA". He graduated Spring 2006.
Umar Chohan completed his senior design project in Fall 2004 entitled "OFDMA Based Transmitter Based on the New 802.16d Standard". He was teamed with Altamash Janjua.
Douglas Coleman completed his senior design project in Fall 2003 entitled "Decomposition of Music to MIDI Note Representation". He was teamed with Douglas Drinka.
Si Crouch graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. He completed his senior honors design project (with Garay Morton) in the Fall 1997 semester on a real-time embedded echo cancellation system using the TMS320C30 floating-point digital signal processor. Since 1998, he has been working full-time at Applied Research Labs at UT Austin.
Fullon Delco completed his senior design project in Spring of 2008 entitled "Design and build an analog audio mixer". His partners were Robson Fricks, Ali Hussain, and Michael Vu.
Alden Doyle graduated with his BSEE degree in Fall 2001. He completed his senior honors design project in Fall 2001. His project was "Real-time Digital Intonation Tuner for Violin Finger Placement", which he developed on the PC. Alden is currently a graduate ECE student at UT Austin.
Douglas Drinka completed his senior design project in Fall 2003 entitled "Decomposition of Music to MIDI Note Representation". He was teamed with Douglas Coleman.
Blake Dumas completed his Senior Design Project on "DSP-based Loudspeaker Design" in Spring of 2003. He graduated in Spring of 2003.
Chi Duong graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. During the Summer and Fall 1997 semesters, she completed the design, implementation, and testing of the TMS320C30 simulator previously developed by Chris Moy and Brian Evans. She finished C30 simulator for submission to the Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge contest. She is currently working for Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, Texas, in formal verification.
Brandon Elliott (brandon.elliott@gmail.com) completed a Fall 2005 Senior Design Project. His project was a "DSP Based Guitar Effect Pedal". He worked with Patrick Kreuzer on the project.
Peter Erikson completed a senior design project in Spring 2008 entitled "Design and simulate channel coding under highly impulsive noise". He worked with Navid Aghasadeghi, Amir Farhani and Marjo Manalang.
Elmustafa Erwa graduate with a B.S.E.E. degree in August of 2002. During the Summer 2002 semester, he worked on "Data Transmission Subsystem of an ADSL transceiver in MATLAB" for his senior design project. He is currently a graduate ECE student at UT Austin.
Amir Farhani completed a senior design project in Spring 2008 entitled "Design and simulate channel coding under highly impulsive noise". He worked with Navid Aghasadeghi, Peter Erikson and Marjo Manalang.
Robson Fricks completed his senior design project in Spring of 2008 entitled "Design and build an analog audio mixer". His partners were Fullon Delco, Ali Hussain, and Michael Vu.
James G. Fung graduate with a B.S.E.E. degree in August of 2002. During the Summer 20002 semester, he completed his senior project entitled Kalman filter to estimate inertial navigation system error using crossfixes. He is currently a graduate ECE student at UT Austin.
Ricardo Garcia completed three different projects. The first project was a real-time acoustic data modem using a PC, LabVIEW, a speaker, and a microphone from Fall 2004 to and Fall 2005. The second project was real-time pitch correction for singing in Spring and Fall of 2006. The third project was the design and implementation of ADSL board interfaces in Spring 2007. He worked alone on the first two projects, and worked with Alvin Leung on the third project. In Fall of 2007, he plans to enroll as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Morton Garay graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. He completed his senior honors design project (with Si Crouch) in the Fall 1997 semester on a real-time embedded echo cancellation system using the TMS320C30 floating-point digital signal processor.
Mayank "Mike" Gupta graduated with a B.S.E.E. in May of 2004. He completed his senior honors design project in the Spring 2004 semester on "Implementation of the photographic composition technique of the rule of thirds in a digital signal processor".
Mohamed Gzara was an exchange student from Ecole Centrale in Lille, France, during the Summer of 1999. He was helping to develop an automated framework for multi-criteria digital IIR filter optimization.
Rezaul Hasan worked on analog phase-locked loop filter design for his senior design project.
Mark Hayenga completed his Senior Design Project on "DSP-based Loudspeaker Design" in Spring of 2003. He graduated in Spring of 2003.
Eric Heinen completed his Spring 2006 Senior Design Project on "Music Database with Song Identification Using Perceptual Audio Hashing". He graduated Spring 2006.
Marcelo Hinojosa completed his senior design project in Fall 2000. He did not have a lab partner.
Joyce Huang developed a framework for designing non-separable two-dimensional filters for her Spring 1998 Senior Design Project. She used the framework to design filters that model the frequency response of the human visual system. From 1998 to 2000, she worked for the Motorola XDSL Technology Development Group in Austin, Texas. Since Fall 2000, she has been an MSEE student at UT Austin.
Daniel Huff graduated with his BSEE degree in Spring 2002. He completed his senior honors design project in Fall 2001. His project was "Implementation of Active Sonar Receive Array Signal Processing on a TI TMS320C5510 DSP". He completed this project while working at the UT Applied Research Labs.
Ali Hussain completed his senior design project in Spring of 2008 entitled "Design and build an analog audio mixer". His partners were Fullon Delco, Robson Fricks and Michael Vu.
Altamash Janjua completed his senior design project in Fall 2004 entitled "OFDMA Based Transmitter Based on the New 802.16d Standard". He was teamed with Umar Chohan.
Robert Jones completed his Spring 2006 Senior Design Project entitled "Embedded motion compensation solution". He graduated Spring 2006.
Robert Kang completed his senior design project in Fall 2004 entitled "Indoor Wireless Optical Communications System using LEDs". He was teamed with Moiz Ahmad.
Tim Kao made a Motorola 56300 simulator and board available for interactive use on the Web. He worked with Kurt Nee to develop command-line interfaces to freely distributable tools from Motorola and integrate the command-line interfaces to the Web-Enabled Simulation framework developed by Prof. Evans' group.
Jason Keller completed his senior design project in Fall 2004 entitled "An Audio Amplifier System with Digital Delay-Based Effects". He was teamed with Joel Koepke.
Ehsan Khan put a TMS320C3x Digital Signal Processor Starter Kit board on-line by providing a Web-based interactive interface to a board-level debugging tool. He was teamed with Kong Susanto on the Spring 1998 Senior Design Project. Ehsan currently works for Compaq in Houston, Texas.
Eric Kirchenwitz finished his senior design project entitled "Multi-channel Signal Conditioning Card Tester" in Summer 2005. He worked by himself.
Joel Koepke completed his senior design project in Fall 2004 entitled "An Audio Amplifier System with Digital Delay-Based Effects". He was teamed with Jason Keller.
Patrick Kreuzer (pkreuzer@mail.utexas.edu) completed a Fall 2005 Senior Design Project. His project was a "DSP Based Guitar Effect Pedal". He worked with Brandon Elliott on the project.
Ishan Kumar is extending the Java applet interfaces for the Web-enabled Simulation framework for his Senior Design Project. The project was co-supervised by Prof. Jonathan Valvano. He was teamed with Shawn Liu.
Stanley Tze Law developed C++ code on a 386 processor to implement a Web-based real-time debugger for a TMS320C32 digital signal coprocessor on a board used for Web-based data acquisition, with help from Concur Systems in Austin, Texas. He was teamed with Holly Ammerman on the Spring 1998 Senior Design Project. Stanley currently works at Metrowerks in Austin, Texas.
Peter Ka Lee worked on a binary-to-binary translator for TI DSP processors (TMS320C5x to TMS320C54x) for his Senior Design Project in the Summer 1999 semester. He was teamed with Daniel Chan.
Alvin Leung finished a senior design project in Spring 2007 on the design and implementation of ADSL board interfaces in Spring 2007. He was teamed with Ricardo Garcia. In Fall of 2007, he plans to enroll as a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin.
Shan Liu completed her Spring 2006 senior design project entitled "Human facial identification system using image hashing techniques". She was teamed with Mione Sadeghzadeh. She graduated Spring 2006.
Shawn Liu added an Motorola 68HC11 simulator to the Web-enabled Simulation framework for his Senior Design Project. The project was co-supervised by Prof. Jonathan Valvano. He was teamed with Ishan Kumar. Shawn is currently the LabVIEW Real-Time Product Manager at National Instruments in Austin, Texas.
Jeffrey Livingston (jlivings@ece.utexas.edu) completed his Senior Design Project entitled "Real-Time Pitch Shifting and Time Scaling Using the Phase Vocoder Algorithm" in Summer 2001. The project was co-supervised by Prof. Russell Pinkston in the School of Music. Jeff did not have a partner. Jeff is currently an MSEE student at UT Austin.
Danny Lynch (lynch@ece.utexas.edu) completed his Senior Design Project entitled "AltiVec Sonar Beamforming Kernel" in Summer 2001. The project was co-directed by Mr. Gregory Allen of the UT Applied Research Laboratories. Danny did not have a partner.
David Love designed and implemented two double-precision floating-point time-domain equalizer methods for ADSL to work under fixed-point arithmetic on the TI TMS320C6000 32-bit fixed-point digital signal processor in Fall 2000. His project was entitled "Design and implementation of an ADSL Time-Domain Equalizer". He did not have a lab partner. He finished his PhDEE degree at UT Austin under the supervision of Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr., and is currently a faculty member at Purdue University.
Marjo Manalang completed a senior design project in Spring 2008 entitled "Design and simulate channel coding under highly impulsive noise". She worked with Navid Aghasadeghi, Peter Erikson and Amir Farhani.
Ketan Mandke finished the BSEE degree in Fall 2001. In Fall 2001, he completed his senior honors design project (with Esther Resendiz) entitled "ADSL Transceiver Design". He is a graduate ECE student at UT Austin.
Vivek Mani completed a senior design project in Spring 2001 entitled "Web-Based IIR Filter Designer". He was teamed with Gary Bernitz.
Scott Margo designed and implemented two double-precision floating-point time-domain equalizer methods for ADSL to work under fixed-point arithmetic on the TI TMS320C54 16-bit fixed-point digital signal processor in Fall 2000. His lab partner was Jerel Canales. Scott graduated in December of 2000, and is living in Taiwan. He can be reached at scomargo@yahoo.com.
Saleem Khan Marwat graduated in Summer of 1997 with a BS in Computer Engineering. For his senior honors design project during the Summer 1997 semester, he added an MC68HC11 microcontroller simulator and extended the GUI and server for the Web-enabled Simulation (WEDS) framework developed by Dogu Arifler and Brian Evans. He currently works full-time at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas, and can be reached at marwat@ti.com.
Julie Montgomery completed her senior design project in Fall 2004 entitled "Biometric Fingerprint Identification System Using Perceptually-Based Image Hashing".
Chris Moy completed his senior design project in the Fall of 1996 and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in December of 1996. His senior design project was the initial prototype of the TMS320C30 simulator.
Robert Mullenix completed his senior design project in the Summer of 2004 and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in December of 2004. His senior design project was entitled "Design and Implementation of Adaptive Modulation Algorithms in a Real-Time DSP Environment".
Kurt Nee made a Motorola 56300 simulator and board available for interactive use on the Web. He worked with Tim Kao to develop command-line interfaces to freely distributable tools from Motorola and integrate the command-line interfaces to the Web-Enabled Simulation framework developed by Prof. Evans' group. Kurt currently works for National Instruments.
Ben Nguyen made Motorola 56000 and 56100 simulators available for interactive use on the Web. He developed command-line interfaces to freely distributable tools from Motorola and integrate the command-line interfaces to the Web-Enabled Simulation framework developed by Prof. Evans' group.
Ha Nguyen graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. She developed a fast disassembler for the Texas Instruments TMS320C50 fixed-point digital signal processor for her Fall 1997 senior design project. She currently works for Symtx in Austin, Texas.
Han Nguyen graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. She developed a fast disassembler for the Texas Instruments TMS320C20 fixed-point digital signal processor for her Fall 1997 senior design project. She currently works for Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, Texas.
Roy Paterson completed a senior design project in Spring 2001 entitled "Wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) Abnormality Detector and Transmitter". He was teamed with Mazyar Razzaz. He can be reached at roy@paterson.net. He currently works full-time at IBM in Austin.
Stephen Pun completed a senior design project in Spring 2005 entited "Discrete Multitone Modulation Modem Testbed". He worked alone. He can be reached at stephenpun@mail.utexas.edu.
Mazyar Razzaz completed a senior design project in Spring 2001 entitled "Wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) Abnormality Detector and Transmitter". He was teamed with Roy Paterson. He can be reached at mrazzaz@hotmail.com.
Hamood Rehman completed his Senior Design Project on a "User Interface for an MP3 Audio Decoder" in Spring of 2000. He is in the Telecommunications and Signal Processing technical area. He can be reached at rehman@alumni.utexas.net. He is working full-time at Goldman-Sachs.
Esther Resendiz finished the BSEE degree in Fall 2001. In Fall 2001, she completed her senior honors design project (with Ketan Mandke) entitled "ADSL Transceiver Design". She is currently a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Matt Riley completed a senior design project in Spring 2005 entitled "Design and Implementation of a Monopulse Sonar Transmitting Array". He worked alone.
Justin Romero completed his senior design project in Fall of 2004 entitled "Passive Swimmer Detection Sonar".
Andrew Rumelt completed his senior design project in Fall of 2003 entitled "C-Major Audio Software: Surround Sounds Wizard". His final presentation is available in PowerPoint format.
Mione Sadeghzadeh completed her Spring 2006 senior design project entitled "Human facial identification system using image hashing techniques". She was teamed with Shan Liu. She graduated Spring 2006.
Francisco Serna completed his senior design project in Fall of 2000 entitled "Development of a Location Based Advertisement Display for Taxis". He did not have a lab partner. He is currently an MS student in Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin.
Abdelaziz Skiredj completed a senior design project in Spring 2005 entitled "Quantifying Tradeoffs in Adaptive Modulation Methods for IEEE 802.16a Wireless Communication Systems". He worked alone on the project.
Junichi Sugiura completed his Senior Design Project on a "Wireless Infrared Security Camera" in Spring of 2000. He worked alone. In Fall of 2001, he enrolled as a graduate student at UT Austin.
Frank Sun completed his Senior Design Project entitled Automated in-air sonar soundhead testing". He worked alone. In Fall of 2007, he plans to enroll as a graduate student at the University of Washington.
Kong Hoei Susanto put a TMS320C3x Digital Signal Processor Starter Kit board on-line by providing a Web-based interactive interface to a board-level debugging tool. He was teamed with Ehsan Khan on the Spring 1998 Senior Design Project. Kong currently works for Cypress in Silicon Valley in the San Francisco area of California in the engineering rotation program. He can be reached at khs@cypress.com.
Bill Terry designed a POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) splitter for ADSL modems for his Senior Design Project. The project involved analog filter design and implementation. Bill works full-time at Cisco in Austin.
Arvind Thirunarayanan graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. He researched, designed, and implemented a real-time Department of Defense LPC10 standard compliant 2400 bits/sec voice encoder/decoder (vocoder) on a TMS320C30 Evaluation Module for his Fall 1997 senior design project with Kevin Boyd. He is now a graduate student at UC Berkeley.
Travis Tucker completed his Senior Design Project on "Analog IIR Filter Design and Implementation" in the Spring of 2003. He graduated in Spring of 2003.
Divyanshu Vats completed his Senior Design Project in Fall 2005. His project was "Designing and Implementing a MATLAB Toolbox for Image-based Rendering". For this project, he won a 2006 University Co-op/George H. Mitchell Award for Academic Excellence.
Jennifer Vining completed her senior design project in Fall of 2004 entitled "Real-Time Differential GPS to Calculate Location, Roll, Pitch, and Heading".
Michael Vu completed his senior design project in Spring of 2008 entitled "Design and build an analog audio mixer". His partners were Fullon Delco, Robson Fricks and Ali Hussain.
Jeffrey Wu completed his Senior Design Project on a "Time-Domain Equalizer for ADSL Modems" in the Spring of 2000, which led to an IEEE conference paper. He graduated from UT in Spring of 2000. Since the Fall of 2000, he has been a graduate student at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He can be reached at jeffwu78@stanford.edu.
Jonathan York completed his Senior Design Project on "Integration of the USB Interface Block with an Ionospheric Doppler Receiver" in Spring 2002. He did not have a lab partner. He graduated from UT Austin with his BSEE degree in Spring of 2002 and his MSEE degree in Spring 2004. He can be reached at jayork@mail.utexas.edu.
Anna Yuan graduated with a B.S.E.E. in December of 1997. She developed tools to integrate MC56LC811 boards and simulators into the Web-enabled Simulation (WEDS) framework to make them accessible online. She currently works for the MC56800 tools at Motorola in Austin, Texas.