Career summary
I am a spacecraft engineer focused on advanced sensors, machine learning signal processing technniques, and information fusion. I am passionate about my research on imaging satellites and working on challenging math problems. My teaching interests include signal processing and other electrical engineering subjects.
I was an engineer for the Department of the Navy for 15 years, beginning as a co-op student and ending as a senior electronics engineer (GS-15). By the end of my career, I was a consulting engineer assisting projects on challenging technical problems.
Technical Interests
- Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing, including machine learning and graphs
- Large optical systems (physics of advanced imaging systems)
- Orbital mechanics
- Mathematical optimization
- C, Python and MATLAB programming, plain GPU execution
- GNU/Linux operating system, developer toolchains
- Control systems and robotics
Professional activities
- IEEE Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition workshop (AIPR) executive committee
- IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative associate member (for Signal Processing Society)
- SPIE Guest editor, Optical Engineering journal
- IEEE Senior member, Signal processing, Control systems, Aerospace systems, Computational intelligence
- SPIE member
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Clemson University
Hobbies
- Playing with mathematical software
- Dancing
- Rowing
- Reading technical journals
Awards
- Naval Meritorious Civilian Service (medal), the third highest honor presented to Department of the Navy civil servants
- 2019 Young Engineer of the Year (DC Council of Engineering and Architecture Societies)
- National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation (medal)
- DoD SMART Scholarship recipient