PEOPLE IN E-DATES
 

Faculty:

Dr. Jeffrey Fan is currently an Assistant Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Florida International University. His research interests include very-large-scaled-integrated (VLSI) circuit simulation, modeling, optimization, bio-electronics, embedded real-time operating systems in application to robotic control, and wireless communications in sensor networks.

Prior to his academic career, Dr Fan served as Vice President of Vivavr Technology, Inc., and General Manager/co-founder of Musica Technologies, Inc.  From 1988 to 2002, he held various senior technical positions in California at Western Digital, Emulex Corporation, Adaptec Inc., and Toshiba America.  His product line of research and development includes Virtual Reality (VR) 3-D animation, MP3 players, hard drives, fibre channel adapters, SCSI/ATAPI adapters, RAID disk array, PCMCIA cards and laser printer controllers.

Dr Fan receives his PhD degree in electrical engineering at University of California, Riverside. and the Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo.  He also holds Bachelor of Science degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

 

Ph.D. students

  • Wei Zhao: Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant

Wei received his Master of Science degree in E.E. from Beihang University, and Bachelor's degree in E.E. from Zhejiang University, China in 2006 and 2005, respectively. Currently, he is working toward his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at FIU, starting Fall 2007.

  • Huang Huang: Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant

Huang received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwest University, China in 2007. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at FIU, starting Fall 2007.

  • Guanglei (Andy) Liu: Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant

Andy received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin University in 2006. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at FIU, starting Fall 2007.

  • Charles Castello: Research Assistant

Charles received B.S. degree in Computer Engineering at Florida International University in 2007. He is working concurrently in Applied Research Center (ARC) in FIU as a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, starting Fall 2008.

  • Xinwei Niu: Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant

Xinwei received B.E. degree in Electronic Information Engineering at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China in 2005, and M.S. degree in Signal and Information Processing from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China in 2008. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at FIU, starting Fall 2008.

 

Alumni:

  • Arjun Mullaguru: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Florida International University, July 2008. M.S. thesis: "Model order reduction using rational transfer function fitting and eigenmode analysis".
     
  • Ramakoti Reddy Kalli: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Florida International University, July 2008. M.S. thesis: "Nonlinear modeling of Radio Frequency circuits to estimate third-order nonlinear distortions".
     
  • Javier Mesa: B.S. in Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Dec 2007