I am a tenure track assistant professor in the electrical engineering department at UTC. My area of expertise is in computers, including digital electronics, reconfigurable computing, and hardware security. Prior to joining the department in 2008, I worked as s senior research engineer with Luna Innovations, Inc., while completing my Ph.D. at the Configurable Computing Lab at Virginia Tech. Previously, I have worked for Lucent Technologies designing processors for cell phones and have interned for multiple companies including Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
My desire to teach at UTC grew out of my own experiences, starting as an UTC undergraduate engineering student in 1994. After graduating from UTC in 1999, I attended Georgia Tech, earning a masters in 2000. The faculty interaction I experienced at UTC was far beyond that seen at the bigger engineering schools. UTC faculty care about individual student success, making the undergraduate program their top priority.
Courses that I teach include:
- Circuits I (ENGR 2700 / 2700L)
- Digital Electronics (ENEE 2740 / 2740L)
- Microprocessor Applications (ENEE 4700 & ENEE 5700)
- Advanced Digital Electronics
- Communications (ENEE 4750)
I am establishing the Configurable Systems Lab to research the application of configurable computing platforms to problems in the design of electronics, communications, and power systems. Ongoing research projects include:
- Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) processor architectures, sponsored by the NSF
- Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) digital design and debug techniques, sponsored by Luna Innovations and DARPA
- Software Defined Radio (SDR) design methods for education
- Networks for power system protection and monitoring, associated with the DOE Workforce Development Grant
