EE Visiting Scholars/Paid Direct Postdocs, 2009-2010
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Mr. Kenichi Agawa, Visiting Scholar
Kenichi Agawa is visiting the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) from Toshiba Corporation in Japan. He is doing research with Professor Jan Rabaey on wireless communication LSIs, and especially ultra low power wireless communication LSIs and wide-band and digitally-assisted baseband analog circuits. He will be in Berkeley through September 2010.
agawa@eecs
Professor Massimo Alioto, Visiting Scholar
Professor Alioto is visiting UC Berkeley from the University of Siena in Italy. He is working with Professor Jan Rabaey at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center on the design and the development of energy-efficient VLSI circuits in CMOS technology. Dr. Alioto arrived in May 2009 and will be here through April 2010.
alioto@eecs
Professor Alper Demir, Visiting Scholar
Professor Demir is visiting from Koc University in Turkey, and is doing research with Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury on Synergistic Modeling and Analysis of Noise and Stochastic Phenomena in Biological and Electronic Systems: One of the key challenges in engineering of biology is the apparent spontaneous variability and the noisy and stochastic behavior of biological systems. Professor Demir obtained his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, EECS. He will be with us through August 2010.
alprdemir@gmail.com
Mr. Roel Dobbe, Visiting Student Researcher
Roel Dobbe arrived in August 2009 from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to work with Professor Claire Tomlin on Biosystems & Computational Biology, Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics, and particularly, work on Hybrid Systems models for biological modeling of Drosophila Melanogaster. He will remain in Berkeley through May 2010.
roeldobbe@hotmail.com
Professor Long-Sheng Fan, Visiting Scholar
Professor Fan arrived in April 2009 from the National Tsing-hua University in Taiwan to collaborate with Professor Ming Wu on optical systems related to an artificial retina implant. Professor Fan earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley EECS. He will be with us through August 2011.
lsfan@eecs
Professor Gerhard Fettweis, Visiting Scholar
Professor Fettweis is working with Professor Edward Lee on researching solutions for software modeling and scheduling techniques for communications software on embedded parallel processing machines. He is also doing research with Jan Rabaey at BWRC on finding new low-power and high speed wireless interconnect backplane solutions for computing platforms and other high performance systems. He will be in Berkeley through the end of February 2010.
fettweis@eecs
Professor Jon Gudmundsson, Visiting Scholar
Professor Gudmundsson arrived in January 2009 to do research with Professors Mike Lieberman and Allan Lichtenberg on plasmas, plasma dynamics and plasma chemistry and, in particular, development of a global (volume averaged) model of the chlorine discharge.
tumi@raunvis.hi.is
Dr. David Hausheer, Visiting Scholar
Dr. Hausheer completed his Ph.D. in 2006 at ETH Zurich and has since been working as a postdoc and lecturer at the University of Zurich. He arrived in Berkeley in October 2009 to do research with Professor Jean Walrand on developing new incentives and settlement schemes for economic and energy-efficient allocation of bandwidth in fixed and wireless networks. The key idea is to leverage the potentials of cooperation and resource sharing through the design and implementation of provisioning schemes and business models which provide appropriate incentives to allocate bandwidth only where and when it is actually needed. Dr. Hausheer will be in Berkeley through April 2011.
hausheer@eecs
Dr. Werner Hofmann, Paid-Direct Post Doc
Dr. Hofmann completed his Ph.D.at the Technical University of Munich in January 2009. He arrived in Berkeley in February to spend two years working as a postdoc with Professor Connie Chang-Hasnain on "Ultra High-Speed Long-Wavelength VCSELs." His Research Area is Laser Diodes and Optical Communications.
whofmann@eecs
Professor Hyongsuk Kim, Visiting Scholar
Professor Kim arrived in March 2009 to work with Professor Leon Chua on CNN-based Implementation of Dynamic Programming and its Application to a Real Time Road Lane Departure Warning System. A faculty member at Chonbuk National University in Korea, Professor Kim will be in Berkeley through February 2011.
hskim@chonbuk.ac.kr
Dr. Dorothea Kolossa, Visiting Scholar
Dr. Kolossa earned her Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering from the Berlin Institute of Technology in December 2007. Since then, she has been a postdoc. She arrived in November 2009 to do research with Professor Kurt Keutzer on "Massively parallel audiovisual speech recognition" to investigate capabilities of current multiprocessor architectures for audiovisual missing feature recognition. The goal is the design of a real-time capable system based on coupled HMMs, a type of statistical model with high tolerance for asynchronies between audio and video stream. She will stay in Berkeley through March 2010.
kolossa@eecs
Mr. Ermin Kozica, Visiting Student Researcher
Mr. Ermin Kozica arrived in Berkeley in June 2009 to do research with Professor Kannan Ramchandran on optimization of multicast systems for communication of real-time data over packet-switched networks from one sender to a large number of receivers. He is completing a Ph.D. in the Sound and Image Processing Laboratory, EES, KTH in Sweden, and will return there at the end of January 2010.
ermin.kozica@ee.kth.se
Mr. Chengyou Lin, Visiting Student Researcher
Mr. Chengyou Lin is in the Ph.D. program in Applied Optics at Beijing Normal University, and he arrived in Berkeley in September 2009 to work for a year with Professor David Attwood at LBL. His research will focus on Electromagnetics at short wavelengths, particularly soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation, x-ray optics, the generation of coherent radiation at EUV and soft x-ray wavelengths, and applications to microscopy and lithography.
linchengyou308@gmail.com
Professor David Macii, Visiting Scholar
Professor Macii is a faculty member at the University of Trento in Italy, and he has come to Berkeley for six months to work with Professor Jan Rabaey at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. He is on a Fulbright Fellowship, working on integrated synchronization circuits for distributed wireless electronic systems. He will be in Berkeley through the middle of March, 2010.
macii@eecs
Dr. Mohammad Maddah-Ali, Paid-Direct Post Doc
Dr. Maddah-Ali received his Ph.D from the University of Waterloo in 2007. He is doing post doctoral work in Professor David Tse's lab until the end of January, 2010. They are investigating the fundamental communication limits such as capacity, diversity, and multi-plex gain, for some multi-user channels, especially when the communication nodes have more than one antenna.
maddah-a@eecs
Mr. Michiaki (Mick) Matsuo, Visiting Scholar
Mick Matsuo, holds an M.S. from Waseda University in Tokyo and works for Panasonic R&D of America. He is currently doing research with Professors Ali Niknejad and Elad Alon at BWRC into millimeter-wave RF CMOS technology. He will be at BWRC through the end of April 2010.
michiaki@eecs
Mr. Kyeontae Moon, Visiting Scholar
Mr. Moon, holds an M.S. from Korea University in Seoul, and is an employee of MewTel Technology of Korea. His area of research is the front-end of the cognitive Universal Radio, which he is working on in Professor Ali Niknejad's group at BWRC. Mr. Moon will remain with us until the end of August, 2010.
sspapa@mewtel.com
Mr. Roberto Morfino, Visiting Student Researcher
Mr. Roberto Morfino is an M.S. student studying in a joint program as an "EPFL Student attending the MNIS (Master Nanotech in Integrated Systems between the Politecnico of Turin, INPG of Grenoble and EPFL of Lausanne). In Berkeley, he is working with Professor Michel Maharbiz on Research and development of micro-electronic devices for neuronal interfacing.
roverandmm@gmail.com
Mr. Jonathan Muller, Visiting Student Researcher
Mr. Jonathan Muller arrived in Berkeley in March 2009 to work with Professor Ali Niknejad at the BWRC on Millimeter wave design for WHDMI digital transmitter. Jonathan is a Ph.D. student at the Institut d'Electronique, de Microelectronique et de Nanotechnologies in Lille, France, and he will return to France in January 2010.
jonathan.muller@isen.fr
Mr. Minxue Pan, Visiting Student Researcher
Mr. Minxue Pan arrived in Berkeley in September 2009 to research Design and modeling of embedded, real-time systems with Professor Edward Lee. Mr. Pan is a Ph.D. at Nanjing University in China and will be staying with us through August 2010.
panmx@eecs
Dr. Jean-Michel Redoute, Paid-Direct Postdoc
Dr. Redoute completed his Ph.D. in May 2009 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and he arrived in early September 2009 to undertake a yearlong postdoc with Jan Rabaey at BWRC, researching the immunity of analog integrated circuits to electromagnetic interferences, while studying possible ways to reduce their electromagnetic emission. Jean-Michel and his wife are expecting their first baby to arrive while they are here.
redoute@eecs
Professor Martin Schoeberl, Visiting Scholar
Professor Schoeberl arrived in Berkeley in October 2009 and will stay through December, doing research with Professor Edward Lee on time-predictable computer architectures. Martin is an assistant professor at Vienna University of Technology in Austria.
mschoebe@mail.tuwien.ac.at
Professor Zongqian Shi, Visiting Scholar
Professor Shi is an Associate Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China. He is visiting Professor Mike Lieberman to research theoretical and simulation work on a project in low pressure, weakly ionized (non-thermal) plasmas with applications of materials processing. He is focusing on the fundamentals of particle-in-cell computer simulation, and the physical and chemical mechanism of the interaction between plasma and contacted material. Professor Shi arrived in early March 2009 and will return to China in late February 2010.
zqshi@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
Professor Takuji Tachibana, Visiting Scholar
Professor Tachibana arrived in Berkeley in February 2009 from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, in Japan, to work for a year with Professor Jean Walrand on wireless networks, specifically on new protocols for multi-modal networks.
takuji-t@eecs
Mr. Anders Tranberg-Hansen, Visiting Student Researcher
Mr. Tranberg-Hansen is completing a Ph.D. in Embedded Systems at the Technical University of Denmark. He arrived in early September 2009 to do research for his dissertation with Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli on methods and frameworks for system level performance estimation of embedded systems, especially in relation to the work that has been carried out within the Metropolis and related UC Berkeley projects. A topic of special interest is models of computation which makes it possible to produce fast and accurate performance estimates at early stages in the design of embedded systems, long before the systems are being physically realized. He will be staying through early December 2009.
asth@eecs
Professor Mark Vesterbacka, Visiting Scholar
Mark Vesterbacka, a professor at Linkoping University in Linkoping, Sweden, arrived in September 2009 to stay for an academic year doing research on electronic circuit design with Professor Bora Nikolic at BWRC.
markv@eecs
Dr. Byron Wicks, Paid Direct Postdoc
Dr. Byron Wicks, who completed his Ph.D. in March 2009 at the University of Melbourne, came to Berkeley on a Fulbright Fellowship in July 2009 to work with Professor Ali Niknejad for a year at BWRC on RF / millimeter wave integrated circuit design, test, measurement, fabrication and commercialisation.
bnw@eecs