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Todd Moon
Department Head
Email: todd.moon@ece.usu.edu
Phone: (435) 797-2970
Office: EL 154

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Area of Specialty: Digital Signal Processing / Communications

Todd Moon is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His area of research is in digital communications and signal processing, where he has done research in the areas of speech recognition, data compression, error correction coding, cryptography, blind source separation, and multiagent coordination. Most recently he has been investigating low density parity check codes and other iteratively decoded codes. He is the author of "Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing".

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Doran Baker Professor Email: spacegrant@cc.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-3666 Office: EL 301 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Remote Sensing / Space Science & Engineering Instruments Doran Baker is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Adjunct Professor of History. He serves as Co-Director for both the Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium and the USU NASA Affiliated Research Center. He is P.I. for the SABER Science Project at USU/SDL. His first priority is teaching and mentoring students, including service as IEEE Advisor. His professional engineering and physics research specialties at both graduate and undergraduate levels are electromagnetics, space science and engineering, remote sensing, electro-optical systems, signal analysis and microelectronics. He is founder of the space program at USU. Dr. Baker serves on the USU Faculty Senate.

Reyhan Baktur Assistant Professor Email: reyhan.baktur@usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2955 Office: EL 150 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Electromagnetics Reyhan Baktur is an assistant professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Utah State University, she was with Motorola as a RF engineer and worked on the base station for cellular phones. Her research interest includes: Computation Electromagnetics, Bioelectromagnetics, Wireless Communications.

Fon Brown Principal Lecturer Email: fon.brown@usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2581 Office: EL 256 View Resume	No description currently available.

Scott Budge Associate Professor Email: scott.budge@ece.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-3433 Office: EL 113 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Image Processing / Communications Scott Budge is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering where he teaches courses in signal processing. His research interests include image data compression algorithms for transmission systems and space-based observation platforms, real-time image processing, and pattern recognition. His current work involves development of high-performance image registration and data compression algorithms designed for implementation in hardware and VLSI systems. He is also involved in research on methods for efficient delivery of education over the internet.

Bedri Cetiner Assistant Professor Email: bedri@engineering.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-3320 Office: EL 251 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Microwaves / Electromagnetics / RF MEMS (Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical Systems) Dr. Bedri Artug Cetiner began serving as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Utah State University on August 1, 2007. He received the PhD Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, in 1999. From November 1999 to June 2000 he was with the University of California, Los Angeles, as NATO science fellow. He then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and research specialist from June 2000 to June 2004. He then worked as an Assistant professor at Morehead State University in the Department of Space Science and Engineering from July 2004 until July of 2007. His research interest is focused on the analysis and design of microwave circuits and radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS). He is recently concentrating on the applications of RF MEMS to space science systems and new class of reconfigurable antennas for use in adaptive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. He is the principal inventor of microwave laminate compatible RF MEMS technology. Dr. Cetiner is the recipient of the 1999 NATO scholarship given by The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for post-doctoral research. He is a member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Communication societies.

YangQuan Chen Assistant Professor Email: yqchen@ece.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-0148 Office: EL 216 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Control Systems YangQuan Chen is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current areas of research interests include: distributed measurement and distributed control of distributed parameter systems using mobile actuator and sensor networks, mechatronics and controls (intelligent, optimal, robust, nonlinear and adaptive), fractional order calculus and fractional order controller tuning, fractional order signal processing techniques for electrochemical biosensors, UAV cooperative control, and real time water management and irrigation control. He holds 12 granted and 2 pending US patents. He co-authored a research monograph (Spring-Verlag 1999), 2 textbooks (Tsinghua Univ. Press 2002, 2004) and over 200 refereed journal and conference papers.

Donald Cripps Principal Lecturer Email: don.cripps@usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-8171 Office: EL 180 View Resume	Area of Specialty: Control Systems Analysis and Design / Autonomous Ground Vehicle Systems Prior to returning to graduate school, Dr. Cripps worked for a small company doing research and development on Stirling cycle engines. His responsibilities included instrumentation, engine modeling for control design, and electronics design. Dr. Cripps also worked at Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the Mechanical Systems Division on flight control electronics for the 757 and 767 airplanes. While completing graduate school, Dr. Cripps was one of six founding members of the local company Autonomous Solutions, Inc.(ASI), which specializes in large and small autonomous ground vehicles. Dr. Cripps completed his Ph.D. while working at ASI and returned to USU to teach in January of 2007.

Aravind Dasu Assistant Professor Email: dasu@engineering.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2830 Office: EL 304E View Resume	Area of Specialty: Computer Engineering Dasu earned his doctorate in electrical engineering from Arizona State University (ASU). During his graduate program at ASU his research work was sponsored by Motorola Corporate Research Labs, ARM and the National Science Foundation. He is excited about his new career as a faculty of the ECE department at Utah State. "I have always enjoyed working with students as a team lead for the visual computing labs at ASU. Being a faculty vastly broadens the scope of interacting with students and faculty. This provides me with a unique opportunity to build inter and intra departmental research coalitions, thereby broadening and enriching my research domain." His primary research interest is in the area of designing novel architectures and tools for reconfigurable processing in the application domains of media and scientific computing.

Brandon Eames Assistant Professor Email: beames@engineering.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2841 Office: EL 304D View Resume	Area of Specialty: Embedded Systems Dr. Brandon Eames is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Utah State University. He teaches classes in real-time embedded software, computer architecture and model integrated computing. His research focuses on the development of model-based design and analysis tools for supporting embedded system design. He is currently working on application- and domain-independent design space exploration algorithms and tools for reconfigurable embedded systems. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGBED.

Jacob Gunther Associate Professor Email: jake@ece.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-7229 Office: EL 172 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Signal Processing / Communications Jake Gunther is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include signal processing, statistical signal processing, array processing, adaptive filtering and its applications, independent component analysis, decision theory, estimation theory, and communication theory. He has worked and consulted on projects in the areas of pattern recognition, speech recognition and synthesis, image processing, sonar array processing, and multi-rate signal processing. Recent projects have included echo and feedback cancellation, unmixing and sub-pixel target detection in hyperspectral imagery, data fusion, channel equalization, accelerating iterative decoding of error control codes, and system characterization using spread spectrum signaling.

H. Scott Hinton Dean Email: hinton@engineering.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2776 Office: ENGR 413 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Photonic Systems Scott Hinton is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is very active in the scientific and engineering community where he has published over 35 journal articles and 85 conference papers. He has also been awarded 12 patents. He was an IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer for 1993 - 1994 and is a Fellow of both the IEEE and OSA. He is currently serving as President of Conferences for IEEE LEOS. His current research is focused on developing systems applications of smart pixels and free-space optical interconnections, and in developing and understanding technology-enhanced learning environments.

Paul Israelsen Research Associate Professor Email: pauli@ece.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-8280 Office: EL 241E View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: VLSI Design Paul Israelsen is a Research Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He teaches courses in VLSI design and microelectronics. He started the VLSI design program at USU. In addition he is active in several research programs within the University which have as a goal the commercialization of technology and reducing theoretical research to practice. He served as Chief Technical Officer of a company he was instrumental in founding from research developed at the university. His research interests are in the areas of VLSI design, digital and analog integrated circuits, image compression and signal processing, and imaging. He has a number of publications and several patents in these areas.

Wei Ren Assistant Professor Email: wren@engineering.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2831 Office: EL 222 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Control Systems Wei Ren is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah State University. He is affiliated with the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems (CSOIS). His primary research focuses on cooperative control of multiple vehicle systems, autonomous control system design for unmanned air and ground vehicles, and nonlinear control theory and applications. He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the AIAA.

Edmund A. Spencer Assistant Professor Email: espencer@aggiemail.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-8203 Office: EL 241C View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Space Science & Engineering Edmund Spencer is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, affiliated with the Center for Space Engineering (CSE) at Utah State University. His research interests are in Space Physics, Space Instrumentation, Plasma Physics, Electromagnetics and Antennas.

Charles M. Swenson Professor Email: charles.swenson@usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2958 Office: EL 241D View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Space Science & Engineering Charles Swenson is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is interested in space engineering and plasma physics. He works closely with other investigators at the Space Dynamics Laboratory on designing instrumentation for spacecrafts and small satellites to measure various atmospheric phenomena.

Paul A. Wheeler Associate Department Head Email: paul.wheeler@ece.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2803 Office: EL 148 View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Acoustics / Computer Engineering Paul Wheeler is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His specialty areas are digital systems design, microprocessor applications, and electroacoustics.

Chris Winstead Assistant Professor Email: winstead@ece.usu.edu Phone: (435) 797-2871 Office: EL 304C View Personal Page View Resume	Area of Specialty: Analog VLSI Chris Winstead is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He studied Electrical Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Utah. While at the University of Utah, he worked with the Winter and Alpine Engineering Laboratory to develop avalanche detecting equipment. The detection and alarm systems were installed in avalanche areas above roads in Wyoming and Colorado. In 2000, he graduated from Utah with a BS in Electrical Engineering, and continued graduate studies in VLSI and Communications at the University of Utah. In fall of 2002, he followed Christian Schlegel in a transfer to the University of Alberta, where he is expected to complete his PhD studies in June of 2004. His research is in CMOS analog implementations of APP decoders for Block Product Codes (a.k.a. Turbo Product Codes). Chris Winstead is a member of Tau Beta Pi, and while at Utah served as chapter President and Secretary. He is also a member of the IEEE.