Curriculum Vitae

Education:

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2006.
  • M.A. Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 2006.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of St. Thomas, 2001.
  • B.A. Mathematics, University of St. Thomas, 2001

 

 

Awards:


Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics, UC
Berkeley (2006),
           for "demonstrated ability to do research in
applied mathematics.."

Leon O. Chua award, UC Berkeley (2005),
           "for outstanding achievement in an area of nonlinear science  from any discipline, including biological, engineering, mathematical, physical and social sciences."


Research:

See my research page: Research.


Publications:

See my publications page: Publications.


Classes:

GPA: 3.9.  For classes taken, see my classes page: Classes.


Teaching and Mentorship:

Teaching:

Taught (with Shankar Sastry): Bipedal Robotic Walking: From Theory to Practice, a special research course on bipedal robotic walking, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006, UC Berkeley. 
  • Resulted in an original research paper, which appeared in the Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, entitled: "Towards the Geometric Reduction of Controlled Three-Dimensional Bipedal Robotic Walkers."
  • Course Website can be found at: Biped


Teaching Assistant: 

EE40:  Introduction to Circuits, Fall 2001.

Guest lecturer in the following courses:

EECS 222: Nonlinear systems: Analysis, Stability and Control.

EECS 291E: Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control.


Mentorship:

SUPERB program, summer 2005.  Mentored undergraduate student in original research; the research focused on bipedal walkers, modeled as hybrid systems.  Resulted in an original research paper, which appeared in the ACC 2006, entitled: "Is there Life after Zeno?  Taking Executions Past the Breaking (Zeno) Point."

SUPERB program, summer 2004.  Mentored undergraduate student in original research; the research was highly theoretical, focusing on hybrid systems and more specifically event detection.

References:

Available upon request.