Research

EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, ACTIVITIES

EDUCATION

University of Florida, Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, May 2015
Dissertation: Adaptive Recurrent Filtering in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
Advisor: Prof. Jose C. Principe

University of Florida, Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, May 2015

University of Hawaii, Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, May 2010
Thesis: Channels with Both Random Errors and Burst Erasures: Capacities and Code Constructions
Advisor: Prof. Aleksandar Kavcic

University of Toronto, Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, June 2007
J. Edgar McAllister Foundation Scholar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal Investigator, Present
iFire Bio, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer

  • Touch-free Voice Trigger for Power Constrained Systems
    NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I, IIP, Contract #: 1648329.

Postdoctoral Associate, May 2015 - Dec. 2016
Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL), University of Florida
Mentor: Prof. Jose C. Principe

  • Pulse Based Syntactic Algorithms for Speech Processing & FPGA Implementation
    DARPA Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation (UPSIDE), MTO, Contract #: N66001-15-4054. PI: Prof. Jose C. Principe.
  • Implantable Multimodal Peripheral Recording and Stimulation System (IMPRESS)
    DARPA Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX), BTO, Contract #: N66001-15-C-4018. PI: Prof. Rizwan Bashirullah, Co-PI: Jose. C. Principe.

Graduate Research Assistant, Aug. 2012 - May 2015
Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL), University of Florida
Advisor: Prof. Jose C. Principe

  • Creating the Synthetic Brain Through Hybrid Computational and Biological Systems: Repairing and Replacing Neural Networks
    DARPA Reorganization and Plasticity to Accelerate Injury Recovery (REPAIR), DSO, Contract #: N66001-10-C-2008. : PI: Joseph T. Francis (SUNY, UH), Co-PI: Prof. Jose C. Principe.

Graduate Research Assistant, Jan. 2008 - Aug. 2010
University of Hawaii, funded by Seagate Technology.
Advisor: Prof. Aleksandar Kavcic

Undergraduate Research Assistant, May 2004 - Sep. 2004
Ultrafast Photonics Laboratory, University of Toronto
Mentor: Prof. Amr S. Helmy

Activities

IBM Research-Almaden TrueNorth Bootcamp Reunion, San Jose, CA, U.S.A., May 2016
IBM Research

Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, CO, U.S.A., June-July 2015
Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering

REFEREE/REVIEWER

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
  • The IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)
  • The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)