• 1995-2001: University of California, Irvine - Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  Ph.D. in Engineering, 2001: inverse power and conjugate gradient methods in discrete multitone modulation
• 1994-95: University of California, Irvine - Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1995: self-organizing associative memory, piece-wise linear approximation, hippocampal learning
• 1990-94: Eleanor Roosevelt College / UCSD - Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
  B.S. in Systems & Control Engineering, 1994: modern system theory, optimization, neural networks and fuzzy systems

• 2001- : Preston Cinema Systems (Santa Monica, Calif.)
  test and production engineering for microwave cinema equipment
• 1994-2001: University of California, Irvine (Irvine, Calif.)
  teaching assistant in courses on signals and systems, circuitry, and on C programming; research assistant studying equalization of communication channels in discrete multi-tone modulated systems; research experience in self-organizing associative memory and Kalman filter neural network systems.
• 1998-2001: UAW Local 2865 (southern California)
  organizer/officer in labor union for UC academic student employees; one-to-one organizer, campaign organizer, contract negotiator.
• 1998: Conexant Systems (Newport Beach, Calif.)
  consulting research work on channel equalization algorithms

• Research and implementation ability in signal processing, digital communication channel equalizer design
• ... and in different formats of neural network and fuzzy logic systems, variations of the Kalman filter and combinations of the above
• Knowledge of digital signal processing, digital communications, control systems, optimal control, system identification, and linear/nonlinear optimization
• Extensive experience with Matlab, functional familiarity with C++ and AutoCAD
• Spoken languages: Mandarin Chinese (native), French (functional usage), Russian (read), Spanish (basic)

• Two IEEE journal papers in progress (under review 2003, in progress 2004)
• Journal paper reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Communications 2001.
• "Time-Domain Channel Equalizer Design Using the Inverse Power Method." Int'l Conference on Communications 1999 (ICC-99)
• "A Data Approach Alternative to System Identification Using the Self-organizing Associative Memory System." Int'l Joint Conference on Neural Networks 1998 (IJCNN-98)
• "Next-day stock trend prediction using the Self-organizing Associative Memory system." Accepted by the Fourth Int'l Conference on Neural Networks in Capital Markets 1996 (NNCM-96)
• "Approximation and Identification of Document Image Defect Models." Fifth Int'l Conference on Advances in Communication and Control 1995 (COMCON 5)
• Presenter on "Fuzzy Neuron Networks" in Kamp Chaos 1995 (UC-wide symposium, UCSD Institute for Nonlinear Science)
• Co-presenter on "Control of In-Vessel Aerobic Decomposition of Green Waste" in Fuzzy Logic 1994 (industrial applications conference, Computer Design)

Honors and Activities:

• UCI Associated Graduate Students: Engineering representative 1996, 1998, 1999
• Jessie Klicka Foundation Scholarship: recipient 1990-1994
• UCSD Fifth College Provost's Honors 1993, 1994
• Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, National Society of Black Engineers, Nomadic Research Labs

Career Goals and Interests:

• Career goals: teaching, peace conversion
• Academic interests: modern and classical control theories, linear/nonlinear optimization, intelligent systems, system identification
• Additional interests: hydrogen fuel-cell technology and policy, fuzzy logic and neural network integration, immigration law, social organizational theories, hippocampal learning of the brain, aerobic green composting