教授简介
ECE项目教授
Jay Farrell - Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jay A. Farrell received B.S. degrees (1986) in physics and electrical engineering from Iowa State University, and M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. At Charles Stark Draper Lab (1989-1994), he was principal investigator on projects involving intelligent and learning control systems for autonomous vehicles. Dr. Farrell received the Engineering Vice President's Best Technical Publication Award in 1990, and Recognition Awards for Outstanding Performance and Achievement in 1991 and 1993. He is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He has served as Vice President Finance and Vice President of Technical Activities for the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is Vice General Chair of the 2011 and Genral Chair of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2008) and author of over 150 technical publications. He is author of the book “Aided Navigation”: GPS with High Rate Sensors” (McGraw-Hill 2008). He is also co-author of the books “The Global Positioning System and Inertial Navigation” (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and “Adaptive Approximation Based Control: Unifying Neural, Fuzzy and Traditional Adaptive Approximation Approaches” (John Wiley 2006).
Yingbo Hua - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yingbo Hua received a bachelor degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in February 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1983 and 1988, respectively. Since February 2001, he has been Professor of Electrical Engineering with the University of California, Riverside, CA. He has consulted for companies/organizations such as Microsoft Research, WA; Defence Science and Technology Organization, Australia; Aeritalia, Italy; and Syracuse Research, NY. He has trained more than 22 Ph.D. students, 11 masters-by-research students, and 9 postdoctoral fellows. Several of them have become professors at major universities in Australia, France, Singapore and China, and many others are working with industrial companies such as Qualcomm and General Electric His current research interests span signal processing and its applications, wireless communications and networking, remote sensing and sensor networks.
Ilya Dumer - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Ilya Dumer received his M.S. (summa cum laude) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1976 and the Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1981. His areas of interests are:
• Near-optimum decoding with exponentially reduced complexity
• Asymptotically optimum defect-correcting codes for data storage
• Nonbinary codes with fixed distance and low redundancy
• Recursive decoding for Reed-Muller codes and their subcodes
• Optimal coverings of the Hamming and Euclidean spaces
• New models: Fingerprinting Codes and Quantum Codes
Ertem Tuncel - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ertem Tuncel received a bachelor degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1995, and M.S. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1997. Then he earned Ph.D, from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002. Since 2003, he has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in University of California, Riverside. Ertem’s research interests include: 1) Joint source-channel coding, 2) Fundamental tradeoffs in data identification systems, 3) Distributed source coding, 4) Zero-error information theory, 5) Rate-distortion theory, 6) Multi-resolution source coding
Ping Liang - Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Ping Liang received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Xian Jiaotong University in 1982, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 and 1987 respectively. He is a senior member of IEEE, and was Associate Editor of the journals Pattern Recognition and Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing. He was the founder and CEO of a semiconductor company and led the development of an industry standard on embedded interconnectivity. He architectured and led the development of multiple ASIC chips, semiconductor IP cores and embedded software product that are used by many fortune 100 companies worldwide in over 100 million units of products ranging from cell phones, digital cameras, printers, PDAs, MP3 players, storage drives, to network gateways and routers, adapters and set-top boxes.
CE-CERT项目教授
Matthew Barth-Director
Matthew Barth (Member 1990, Senior Member 2000, Fellow 2014) is the Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering, University of California-Riverside. He is part of the intelligent systems faculty in Electrical Engineering and is also serving as the Director for the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), UCR’s largest multi-disciplinary research center. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1984, and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Barth joined the University of California-Riverside in 1991, conducting research in Intelligent Systems.
Guoyuan Wu - Assistant Researcher
Guoyuan Wu received his B.S. degree in Energy Engineering in 2001 from Zhejiang University, P. R. China, and completed his M.S. degree in Thermal Engineering at Tsinghua University, P. R. China, in 2004. Then, he earned Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. During the pursuit of his Ph.D., Dr. Wu had been employed as a graduate student researcher at the California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) for over five years. Upon graduation, Dr. Wu joined the Transportation Systems Research (TSR) group at CE-CERT as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
George Karavalakis - Associate Researcher, Assistant Adjunct Professor
George Karavalakis received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. His M.S. in environmental engineering from University of Portsmouth and also his BEng-Hongs in engineering from University of Portsmouth. His current research focuses on biodiesel and alcohol fueled vehicles and their influence on toxic, mutagenic, and/or carcinogenic emissions. Particular emphasis is given on ultrafine particle emissions and their physicochemical characterization, especially the oxidative and electrophilic properties of particles.
Tom Durbin - Researcher, Adjunct Professor
Tom Durbin is a Research Engineer in the fuel and emissions research group at CE-CERT. He is conducting research in the area of vehicle emissions with an emphasis on studying fuels, advanced vehicles, and particle and in-use emissions. This research includes programs to understand the emissions impacts of various alcohol fuels, including ethanol and butanol, biodiesel, natural gas, as well as specific fuel properties such as sulfur content, ethanol, content, aromatics content, and olefin content in gasoline. Dr. Durbin served as the lead researcher in a collaborative study of biodiesel emissions with the California Air Resources Board that is one of the largest studies in this area to date.
Kent Johnson - Associate Researcher, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Kent Johnson joined CE-CERT's research faculty in 2010 after serving on the Center's staff as Principal Development Engineer and manager of the Mobile Emissions Laboratory (MEL). He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from UC Riverside where his doctoral research focused on the impact of emissions on ambient air quality. More specifically Johnson's research interests include: 1) quantification of in-use emission measurements; 2) advancement of measurement techniques; and 3) study of fuel impacts on emissions for diesel engines. He recently created a comprehensive program for the evaluation of portable emissions monitoring systems (PEMS) that has had impacts at both the national and international levels. Dr. Johnson joined CE-CERT in January 1993 and was involved in CE-CERT’s solar hydrogen production facilities, and was also the lead CE-CERT engineer on the biomass to fuels gasification pilot plant.
Joseph Norbeck - Research Professor
Joseph Norbeck is the W. Ruel Johnson Professor and former Director of CE-CERT. He now heads the UCR Environmental Research Institute. He joined the University of California, Riverside, in January 1992 after working as head of the Chemistry Department, Research Staff, Ford Motor Co. He has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Nebraska. He has published more than seventy-five papers in theoretical chemistry, atmospheric modeling, vehicle emissions, and advanced vehicle technology. His current research includes the relationship between vehicle emissions and air quality, development of renewable fuels, and development of advanced vehicle technology.
Kelly Barsanti – Assistant Professor
Kelley Barsanti received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Engineering from the OGI School of Science & Engineering. She then served as an Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Barsanti’s research focuses on the development of mechanistic models for the prediction of atmospheric particulate matter (“aerosols”). Her primary research tools include comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography and process-level models to elucidate chemical and physical transformations of organic compounds as they evolve from gaseous emissions to particle constituents. Current research projects include improving speciation of organic compounds in emissions inventories for biomass burning and other combustion sources; improving model representation of secondary organic aerosol in biomass burning plumes; and developing models of new particle formation.
Arun Raju - Assistant Researcher
Arun Raju has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UC Riverside with a focus on gasification and related processes. He has experience in research related to synthetic fuels and chemicals production (Fischer-Tropsch liquids, SNG, DME, etc), and power generation via gasification based pathways, including waste to energy processes. His research at CE-CERT focuses on energy systems analysis, CO2 utilization, life cycle analysis and techno-economic evaluation and optimization of energy conversion pathways. Before joining CE-CERT, Arun was the Director of Research at Viresco Energy, LLC and later served as the Director of Technology Development at Combustion Associates, Inc.
Chan Seung Park - Associate Researcher, Associate Adjunct Professor
Chan Seung Park earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Seoul National University in Korea.Previously, he worked for the refinery in Korea to develop various renewable energy conversion processes such as steam reforming of natural gas, energy storage device and Selectively Catalytic Reduction (SCR) process. He was a Principal Research Scientist for SK Corporation's Research Laboratory in the Taedok Institute of Technology in Korea.Since joining CE-CERT in June 1998, he has been involved in the development and application of technologies for detecting and analyzing the composition of fuels and emissions. Other projects include the development of electronic controls for on-road, real-time measurement of emissions from heavy-duty trucks and for extremely low emission passenger cars.
Rajeev Kumar - Assistant Researcher, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Dr. Rajeev Kumar is an Assistant Research Engineer (Research Faculty) at the Bourns College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) of the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Kumar earned his Ph.D. in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. He got his Masters and Bachelor’s Degrees both in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and SLIET Longowal (Punjab Technical University), Sangrur, Punjab, India, respectively.Dr. Kumar has been working on understanding the fundamentals of lignocellulosic biomass recalcitrance to biological breakdown, developing novel routes to biomass conversion, and enhancing product yields from existing routes for the last ten years.
Charles Cai – Assistant Researcher
Charles Cai is an Assistant Research Engineer at CE-CERT and Assistant Adjunct Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at UC Riverside. He is currently devoted to developing novel biofuels technologies to convert plant biomass into renewable chemicals and liquid transportation fuels. His research focuses on the biological and catalytic processing of agricultural and forestry waste products, also known as lignocellulosic biomass, that don't compete with our food crops so that the production of next generation advanced biofuels can be an environmentally sustainable process. Charles received his Ph.D in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at UC Riverside and his B.S. in Biochemical Engineering at UC Davis.
Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales - Assistant Researcher, Managing Director, SC-RISE
Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales is the managing director of the Southern California Research Initiative for Solar Energy (SC-RISE), an innovative collaboration between researchers, industry and government based at UC Riverside's College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT). Dr. Martinez-Morales received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from UCR, conducting his research at the Biomedical Science and Nanotechnology Laboratory with an emphasis on materials synthesis and third generation photovoltaics. His current research includes concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), ordered bulk-heterojunction (OBHJ) solar cells, and Lithium-ion battery technology.
Sadrul Ula - Researcher, Co-Director, Winston Chung Global Energy Center
Sadrul Ula is the Managing Director of Winston Chung Global Energy Center, a new research center at the University of California – Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering. He is also a Research Faculty at the College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) and part of the Southern California – Research Initiative for Solar Energy (SC-RISE). He is working on research, development and outreach aspects of electrical energy storage, power transmission and distribution, smart grids, solar photo-voltaic (PV), solar thermal, concentrated PV (CPV) and concentrated solar (CSP), as well as wind energy.
