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Somsak Sukittanon, Ph.D. 2015

I. Personal Information Somsak Sukittanon Professor 124E Johnson EPS Building The University of Tennessee at Martin, Department of Engineering Martin, TN 38238 731-881-7571 Email: ssukitta@utm.edu Webpage: http://www.utm.edu/departments/engineering/ssukitta.php

II. Educational Credentials The University of Washington, Seattle, WA Aug 1999 – Aug 2004 Received Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. Dissertation topic: Modulation Scale Analysis:

Theory and Applications for Pattern Recognition. The University of Washington, Seattle, WA Sep 1997 – Aug 1999 Received M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. Coursework was predominantly in digital signal

processing and communications. King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand June 1990 – Apr 1994 Received B.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering with 1st class honor.

III. Employment History and Teaching Advising A. Employment History Department of Engineering, University of Tennessee, Martin TN 2007-Current

Assistant (2007-2011)/Associate(2011-2013)/Professor (2013-present) · Design and teach undergraduate courses in electrical engineering discipline. · Supervise senior engineering students on senior research and design. · Served as a faculty advisor for IEEE Southeast robot competition 2007-2008 to build an

autonomous robot and competed at the IEEE conferences. · Initiate, lead, and conduct research in digital signal processing, embedded systems, and

mobile application development. · Initiate and supervise IEEE student software competition. · Published 30 mobile apps on Apple’s app store with over 60,000 download. · Taught over 100 undergraduate courses (2007-15) with average student evaluation 4.4. · Organized the engineering design competition between 2007 and 2015, accomplished the

hardware and software design over 100 projects with electrical engineering students. · Authored and co-authored 15 publications in the past 6 years (2007-2015). · Involved in 19 grant writing with approximate total of 1.5 million dollars, $140,000 was funded. · Consulted three companies for new product development. · Nominated for the Hardy Graham Distinguished Professorship (2009). · Received Cunningham Scholar award (2014). · Received featured faculty award (2014). · Received the Stanley Jones Endowed Professorship (2010, 2011). · Received the Smith Endowed Professorship (2012).

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Shotspotter Incorporate, Mountain View CA 2006 R&D Engineer

· Responsible for research and development of acoustic detection and classification over wireless sensor networks.

· Led investigations in the areas of software development in digital signal processing including pulse detection over noisy environment, helicopter pulse filtering, weapon type classification.

· Designed and prototyped new products using Matlab, Labview, and Embedded C. Virtual DSP Corporation, Everett WA 2004-2005

Principal Engineer · Responsible for research and development of innovative consumer systems using state-of-

the-art signal processing and embedded systems. · Led investigations in the areas of software development using devices from Texas

Instruments, Analog Devices, Atmel, Motorola/Freescale, and Cypress. · Consulted on the development of proprietary technologies for several industries, e.g. music,

medical, and consumer products. · Designed and prototyped new products using Atmel AVR, Cypress PSoC, Freescale, Perl &

CGI, Microsoft Visual Basic. University of Washington, Seattle WA 1998-2005

Lecture · Designed and taught a new course for Discovery Seminar program focusing on the

application of math and science to engineering and technology. · Taught Fundamental of Electrical Engineering for 100 students and supervised 8 teaching

assistants. Teaching Assistant

· Responsible for grading assignments, evaluating term projects, proctoring exams, serving as substitute instructor.

· Taught 5 undergraduate and 2 graduate courses with average student evaluation 4.2 out of 5. · Nominated twice for the best teaching assistant.

Research Assistant

· Responsible for the research of modulation scale theory and applications. Previous projects included

- Modulation frequency features for audio fingerprinting, sponsored by the Washington Research Foundation. - Automated modulation classification of digital communication signals, sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). - Modulation scale: theory and application for nonstationary signal classification, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Microsoft Research, Redmond WA 2003

Research Intern · Responsible for the algorithm design and development for speech and audio classification. · Devised a technique to automatically label a large database of speech versus nonspeech. · Designed speech detection experiments using modulated complex lapped transform (MCLT)

and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Cantametrix Incorporate, Seattle WA 1999-2000

Intern and Consultant · Responsible for the algorithm design and development for music retrieval applications. · Designed different types of music feature extractors and the first version of a music fingerprint

system which is invariant to changes of CODEC and compression rate.

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· Designed music similarity measures for music classification and similarity prediction. · Developed visualization tools for DSP research using MATLAB GUI and Intel DSP library.

Virtual DSP Corporation, Everett WA 1999

Summer Intern · Responsible for the software design of real-time audio processing algorithms. · Developed a digital subwoofer controller algorithm using Analog Devices ADSP 21xx family. · Developed a graphic equalizer using C/C++ and Intel DSP library.

United Communication Public Limited, Bangkok Thailand 1995-1996

System Engineer · Responsible for design, installation, and training of communication system. · Aided in the development of several proposals including 2 winning proposals, i.e. SCADA

(US$ 3M) and computer network (US$ 1M). B. Teaching Accomplishment

UTM Courses (12 semesters, 72 classes, 140 credits)

Semester Average Student Teaching Evaluation

(5 scale)

Spring 2007 4.32

Fall 2007 4.09

Spring 2008 3.71

Fall 2008 4.33

Spring 2009 4.32

Fall 2009 4.45

Spring 2010 4.61

Fall 2010 4.71

Spring 2011 4.42

Fall 2011 4.55

Spring 2012 4.65

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Taught Credits

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Fall semester § ENGR 231: Digital Logic (3) § ENGR 233: Electrical laboratory (1) § ENGR 316: Signals and Systems (3) § ENGR 361: Digital Signal Processing (3) § ENGR 361L: Digital Signal Processing laboratory (1) § ENGR 410: Senior Design I (1) § ENGR 490: Software Programming (3) § ENGR 490: Special Topic in Mobile Software (1) § CSCI 222: Programming in C/C++ § CSCI 335: Mobile programming Spring semester § ENGR 233: Electrical laboratory (1) § ENGR 411: Senior Design II (3) § ENGR 460: Microprocessor and Computer Organization (3) § ENGR 460L: Microprocessor and Computer Organization laboratory (1) § ENGR 461: Communication systems (3) § ENGR 490: Special Topic in Embedded Systems (1) Senior Design Projects (22 projects, 38 students)

1. 2007 IEEE Robot Competition (2 students) 2. 2008 IEEE Robot Competition (5 students) 3. Assistive Technology 1: Head Tracking Computer Controlled (3 students) 4. Assistive Technology 2: Motorized Prone Stander (3 students) 5. Digital Audio Mixes (1 student) 6. Advanced Ultrasonic Rangefinder (1 student) 7. Wireless Weather Station on iPhone (3 students) 8. Multitouch Display Controller (2 students) 9. Exercise Machine Design (1 student) 10. Android Mobile Interface for Home Security System (1 student) 11. Mobile Lock Box (1 student) 12. Mobile Learning Application for Beam Bending (1 student) 13. Home Automation using X10 Network (2 students) 14. Interactive Mobile Content Display (1 students) 15. Mobile Authoring and Sharing System for Creating Dynamic Learning Applications (1 student) 16. Automatic Music Composer (1 student) 17. Gesture Painting using KINECT (1 student) 18. Wireless Nutritional Scale with Mobile Display (2 students) 19. MoonWatt: home automation using Raspberry PI (1 student) 20. Interactive Building Walkthrough using Oculus Rift and Microsoft Kinect (1 student) 21. Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast Modification to UAV (1 student) 22. Virtual Glider (3 students)

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Engineering Student Design Competition Projects § 2015

o Treequalizer (1 students) o 3D scanner (1 student) o Vertical Surface Digitizer (1 student) o Video Radar Gun (2 students) o Virtual Building Walkthrough (1 student) o Smart flagpole (1 student) o Illuminate Drawing (1 student) o Simon Rampage (2 students) o FM-to-go (1 student) o Quadcopter for crop scouting (1 student) o 3D Architectural Visualization (3 students) o iOS apps (8 students)

§ 2014 o Xylomatic (2 students) o Lighting Orb (1 student) o Wireless Weather Station (1 student) o Frozen Towers (1 student) o An Automated Power Management Device (1 student) o Mancala iphone app (1 student) o Woodchopping iphone app (1 student) o Atmoizer iphone app (1 student)

§ 2013 o Single Channel Noise Reduction for Speech Enhancement on iPhone (1 student) o Digital Sound Effects (1 student) o Looping Music Synthesizer (1 student) o Speech recognition using KINECT sensor (1 student) o 5-card Poker Mobile Game (2 students) o Voice Activated Living (1 student) o Educational Mobile and Authoring System (1 student) o Nutritional Wireless Scale with Mobile Display (2 students) o Magnet Controlled Drum Beat Sound Generator (1 student) o Laser Harp Music Synthesizer (1 student) o Invisible Drum Set (1 student) o A Light Spinning Device (1 student) o Bluetooth Chatroom (1 student) o Primitive Chatroom (2 students)

§ 2012 o Laser Piano (2 students) o Water Printer (2 students) o Chesster: Chess Training System (1 student) o Robot Fighters (2 students) o Heartbeat Monitor (1 student)

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o Movie Special Effects (1 student) o iOS Apps (6 student)

§ 2011 o Duck Killer (1 student) o SmartHome - X (2 students) o iCube (1 student) o Mobile Lockbox (1 student) o Mobile Door (1 student) o Mind over Matter (1 student) o Quadcopter (2 students) o Cloudkey (1 student) o Hourglass (1 student) o iPhone Apps Games (6 students)

§ 2010 o Diet Fridge (1 student) o Pro Range (1 student) o SuperMIDI (1 student) o Mad Car (1 student) o MazeBot (2 students) o Duck Slayer (1 student) o m.UTM (1 student)

§ 2009 o Dragon Guitar (1 student) o The Galaxy (2 students) o Digiball (2 students) o NeuroArm (2 students) o Messymaze (1 student) o Wheel Motion (1 student) o Tamagochi (1 student)

§ 2008 o Nintendo Sudoku (2 students) o Handheld Blackjack (1 student) o iRobot Detonator (2 students) o EKG Monitor (2 students) o Persistence of Vision (2 students) o Wheel of Fortune (1 student) o Z-Zill (1 student)

§ 2007 o 3-D Tic Tac Toe (1 student) o pTV (1 student) o Guitar Tuner (1 student) o Simon Say (1 student) o eCookbook (1 student)

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iOS Mobile Applications currently on the Apple Store

Dice Rolling Extreme

Digital Logic Assistant

Opamp Calculator Tool

DSP Assistant

Stopwatch Extreme

Voice Changer Addict

Prime Number Billions

Guessing Words Addict

DSP Filter Design

Engineering Economics Tutor

Strength of Materials: Point Load

Fundamental Engineering Tutor

Strength of Materials: Uniform Load

UTM University Scholar Projects (3 projects, 3 students) § Improve Crop Scouting using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Lindsey F.) § Sound Source Localization using Labview and Speedy-33 (Josh V.) § Digital Audio Mixer and Noise Removal (Jon S.)

C. Advising/Student Support

§ Student advising for class registration since Fall 2007, on average 20-25 students per semester. § IEEE advisor between 2007 and 2008 on robot competition. § Advisor for Luis Herrera’s presentation for 2009 UT president and Blankenship visit at UTM. § Advisor for Josh Potts’s presentation for 2011 UTM development committee meeting.

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§ Advisor for Josh Potts’s poster for 2011 Posters at the Capital event. § Advisor for Darrell Banks’ poster for 2012 Posters at the Capital event. § Advisor for Ben Wright’s poster for 2013 Posters at the Capital event. § Advisor for Seth Appleton’s poster for 2013 Posters at the Capital event. § Advisor for Matthew Masengill’s poster for 2014 Posters at the Capital event. § Advisor for Will Woodard’s poster for 2015 Posters at the Capital event. § Advisor for Lindsey Feigl’s poster for 2015 Posters at the Capital event. § Advisor on 2012 IEEE software competitions, Southeast Conference, Orlando FL. § Advisor on 2012 IEEE software competitions, IEEEXtreme, Martin TN. § Advisor on 2012 ACM software competitions, Murray KY. § Advisor on 2013 IEEE software competitions, Southeast Conference, Jacksonville FL. § Advisor on 2013 ACM software competitions, Murray KY. § Advisor on 2014 ACM software competitions, Murray KY. § Organized programming tutoring on Matlab and Labview in 2007, 2008. § Organized three workshops in Spring 2013 to UTM Engineering students.

IV. Scholarly/Creative Activities A. Publications Since Employed at UTM 1. W. Woodard and S. Sukittanon, “Interactive Virtual Building Walkthrough using Oculus Rift and

Microsoft Kinect”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast conference, 2015. 2. B. Wright and S. Sukittanon, “User Driven Mobile Authoring System”, Proceedings of the IEEE

southeast conference, 2014. 3. B. Gilbert, B. Wright, and S. Sukittanon, “Mobile Authoring and Sharing System for Creating Learning

Materials”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast conference, 2013. 4. B. Wright and S. Sukittanon, “Integer-Based Wavetable Synthesis for Low-Computational Embedded

Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast conference, 2013. 5. S. Sukittanon and J. Potts, “Mobile Digital Filter Design Toolbox”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast

conference, 2012. 6. N. Dickey, D. Banks, and S. Sukittanon, “Home Automation using Cloud Network and Mobile

Devices”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast conference, 2012. 7. J. Potts and S. Sukittanon, “Exploiting Bluetooth on Android Mobile Devices for Home Security

Application”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast conference, 2012. 8. J. Potts, N. Moore, and S. Sukittanon, “Developing Mobile Learning Applications for Electrical

Engineering Courses”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast conference, page 293-296, 2011. 9. L. Herrera, B. Mink, and S. Sukittanon, “Integrated Personal Mobile Devices to Wireless Weather

Sensing Network”, Proceedings of the IEEE southeast conference, page 5-8, 2010. 10. M. Kimbrough, R. Chrysler, and S. Sukittanon, “Increase Student Project Outcome in Embedded

System Course through Design Competition”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2010.

11. J. McCullough, S. Sukittanon, and R. Helgeson, “Incorporating Assistive Technology into Senior Design Projects”, Proceedings of ASEE, 2010.

12. L. Herrera and S. Sukittanon, “Development of DSP Curriculum in an Undergraduate Course using Real- time Hardware and Online Collaborative Resources”, submitted to Proceedings of the ASEE, 2010.

13. S. Sukittanon, “Digital Filter Design Toolbox for Programmable System on the Chip,” Technical report for Cypress Semiconductor, 2010.

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14. M. Kimbrough, J. Fulwood, and S. Sukittanon, “Dynamic Laser MIDI Controller,” IASTED, International Conference of Signal and Image Processing, 2009.

15. L. Atlas, S. Sukittanon, S. Schimmel, “Modulation frequency analysis and modification of signals”, accepted for ICASSP Tutorial 2008.

Prior Employed at UTM 16. S. Sukittanon, L. Atlas, J. Pitton, K. Filali, and J. McLaughlin, “Translation invariant modulation

spectrum with applications to communication signal interception,” submitted to IEEE transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2007.

17. S. Sukittanon, L. Atlas, and S. Dame, “Enhanced modulation spectrum for in-building mechanical monitoring system,” submitted to IEEE Signal Processing Letter, 2007.

18. C.W. Huang, S. Sukittanon, J. Ritcey, A. Chindapol, and J.N. Hwang, “An embedded packet train and adaptive FEC scheme for VoIP over wired/wireless IP networks,” Proc. of ICASSP, vol 5, 2006.

19. S. Sukittanon, L. Atlas, and S. Dame, “Enhanced modulation spectrum using space-time averaging for in-building acoustic signature identification,” Proc. of ICASSP, vol 3, 2006.

20. S. Sukittanon, L. Atlas, J. Pitton, and K. Filali, “Improved modulation spectrum through multi-scale modulation frequency decomposition,” Proc. of ICASSP, IV_517- IV_520, 2005.

21. S. Sukittanon and S. Dame, “Embedded statemachine design for PSoCTM using C programming,” Cypress Semiconductor Application Notes AN2329, 2005 (available at www.cypress.com).

22. S. Sukittanon and S. Dame, “Embedded statemachine design for PSoCTM using an automatic code generator,” Cypress Semiconductor Application Notes AN2332, 2005 (available at www.cypress.com).

23. S. Sukittanon and S. Dame, “Embedded statemachine design for PSoCTM with interfacing to a Windows Application,” Cypress Semiconductor Application Notes AN2333, 2005.

24. S. Sukittanon and S. Dame, “FIR filtering design for PSoCTM with application to fast hilbert transform,” Cypress Semiconductor Application Notes AN2328, 2005.

25. S. Sukittanon and S. Dame, “3-channel filterbank in PSoCTM,” Cypress Semiconductor Application Notes AN2315, 2005.

26. S. Sukittanon and S. Dame, “nth order digital IIR filtering graphical design tool for PSoCTM,” Cypress Semiconductor Application Notes AN2312, 2005.

27. S. Sukittanon, L. Atlas, and J. Pitton, "Modulation scale analysis for content identification," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 52, pp. 3023-3035, 2004.

28. S. Sukittanon, A. Surendran, J. Platt, and C. Burges, “Convolutional networks for speech detection,” Proc. of ICSLP, II_1077-II_1080, 2004.

29. Surendran, S. Sukittanon, and J. Platt, "Logistic discriminative speech detectors using posterior SNR," Proc. of ICASSP, V_625-V_628, 2004.

30. S. Sukittanon and L. Atlas, "Channel compensation of modulation spectral features," Proc. of ISCAS, 540-543, 2003.

31. S. Sukittanon, L. Atlas, J. Pitton, and J. McLaughlin, "Nonstationary signal classification using joint frequency analysis," Proc. of ICASSP, VI_453-VI_456, 2003.

32. S. Sukittanon, “Fixed-point DSP programming using the ADSP-2100,” UW-EE technical report UWEETR-2003-0026, 2003 (available at www.ee.washington.edu/techsite/papers).

33. S. Sukittanon and L. Atlas, "Modulation frequency features for audio fingerprinting," Proc. of ICASSP, 1173-1176, 2002.

34. M. Ostendorf, L. Atlas, R. Fish, O. Cetin, S. Sukittanon, and G. Bernard, “Joint use of dynamical classifiers and ambiguity plane features,” Proc. of ICASSP, 3589-3592, 2001.

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Patent § “Automatic identification of sound recordings,” patent number 7,328,153 B5. § “Systems and methods that detect a desired signal via a linear discriminative classifier that

utilizes an estimated posterior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR),” patent number 7,660,713. B. Professional Presentations § “Mobile Digital Filter Design Toolbox,” IEEE Southeast Conference, Orlando, FL, 2012. § “Increase Student Project Outcome in Embedded System Course through Design Competition,” ASEE,

Louisville, KY, 2010. § “Introduction to Boe-Bot Programming”, MSP grant, Cookeville, TN, 2010. § “Dynamic Laser MIDI Controller,” International Conference of Signal and Image Processing, Hawaii,

2009. § “Introduction to Robotics”, MSP grant, Cookeville, TN, 2009. § “Modulation frequency analysis and modification of signals,” ICASSP Tutorial, Las Vegas, 2008. C. Creative Activity Exhibitions § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2007 (5 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2008 (7 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2009 (7 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2010 (7 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2011 (9 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2012 (8 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2013 (14 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2014 (8 projects) § Organized Engineering Design Competition 2015 (12 projects)

Grant Proposals (19 proposals since employed at UTM) 1. Office of Information Technology, University of TN at Knoxville: Project RITE: Educational Mobile Authoring and Sharing System for Creating Dynamic Learning Applications 2012 Principal Investigator Submitted to OIT in Nov 2012 (not funded), $3,000. 2. The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF): Educational Mobile Authoring and Sharing System for Creating Dynamic Learning Applications 2012 Principal Investigator Submitted to UTRF in Oct 2012 (not funded), $14,929. 3. National Sciences Foundation (NSF): Educational Mobile Authoring and Sharing System (eMASS) for Creating Dynamic Learning Applications 2011 Principal Investigator Submitted to NSF in Dec 2011 (not funded), $550,000. 4. Improving Teacher Quality Grant (ITQ): Activity Based Engineering and Physics for Middle and Junior High School 2010 Principal Investigator Submitted to State of Tennessee in Nov 2010 (not funded), $75,000.

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5. Math and Science Partnership Grant (MSP): Engineering and Physics Collaboration for High School Science Teachers 2009 Principal Investigator Submitted to Tennessee Department of Education, the proposal was declined due to the budget cut, $750,000.

6. Digital Filter Design Toolbox for Programmable System on the Chip 2010 Principal Investigator Funded by Cypress Semiconductor to develop the digital filtering toolbox for PSoC using Microsoft C#, $5,000. 7. Tennessee Pre-engineering Math and Science Project 2008-2010 Director at UTM campus Partner with TTU, UTM, and NSTCC on the MSP project for middle and high schools in Tennessee, $48,000.

8. Digital Technology and Development Teaching Laboratory 2008 Principal Investigator Funded by State of Tennessee Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners to develop the digital embedded system laboratory, $16,625. 9. Assistive Technology 2007 Principal Investigator (with Dr. McCullough and Dr. Helgeson) Funded by Department of Education to develop head-tracking computer system and motorized prone stander, $35,000. 10. Advanced Ultrasound Rangefinder 2007 Principal Investigator Funded by Virtual DSP Corporation to develop firmware for object detection inside oversea cargo, $5,000. 11. Undergraduate Research (Total 9 proposals since 2007) 2007-2015 Principal Investigator Funded by the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences to research in digital signal processing and mobile application development, approximately $30,000.

Donation § MackieScientific for $3000 donation 2007 § National Instruments for speedy-33 donation 2008 § Texas Instruments for C6713 donation 2008

V. Faculty/Teaching Development Activities § Initiated the use of Web 2.0 collaborative applications as a supplement to classroom instruction. § Participated in one week of MSP workshop at the Tennessee Tech University, 2008-2010. § Participated in IEEE student robot competition, 2007-2008. § Initiated Engineering Student Design Competition for the Engineering department. § Developed the new programming course focusing on recent SDKs, e.g. iPhone, Android. § Developed the research laboratory EPS 121. § Developed four new laboratories for electrical engineering courses (ENGR 233, 361L, 460L, 490). § Organized software competition for the department of Engineering (Spring and Fall 2012).

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VI. Services Activities A. Service to Professional § Reviewer, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America § Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing § Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing § Reviewer, International Association of Science and Technology for Development § Reviewer, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems § Reviewer, American Society for Engineering Education § Consultant, Mackie Scientific, WA § Consultant, Virtual DSP, WA § Consultant, Cypress Semiconductor, WA

B. Service to the University of Tennessee § Faculty Senate § UTM Microcomputer committee § Faculty search committee for Electrical Engineering position § UT Research Task Force committee § University scholar mentor, UTM § Financial Aid and Scholarship Awards committee, UTM § Chair of Award committee, UTM engineering § Curriculum committee, UTM engineering § Webmaster, UTM engineering § Produced the College video (2010-2011) § Created Technical Report Series website for CENS § Administrator of UT Martin Electrical Engineering Facebook page

C. Service to the Public § Developed ATube, an online streaming video, for digital signal processing class. The system was

used by many people around the world including students and teachers from China and UK. § Developed two Assistive Technology for two families in TN, Paris and Martin.

VII. Professional Societies and Other Relevant Activities Memberships § Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2002-current § American Society for Engineering Education 2010 § International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) 2006-2012

Awards § Received the Cunningham Scholar award

University of Tennessee at Martin 2014 § Received the featured faculty award

University of Tennessee at Martin Spring 2014 § Received the Stanley Jones Endowed Professorship, Department of Engineering,

University of Tennessee at Martin 2010, 2011 § Received the Smith Professorship, Department of Engineering,

University of Tennessee at Martin 2012 § Received the outstanding Teaching Award,

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington 2005 § Nominated twice for the Cunningham scholar award, UTM 2010, 2011 § Nominated for the Hardy Graham Distinguished Professorship, UTM 2009 § Nominated for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, U. of Washington 2001, 2003