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The project team
brings together a unique set of highly qualified
professionals from SFSU, Agilent Technologies and Sun
Microsystems, creating the multi-disciplinary research
team needed to address this difficult domain.
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Dr. Todor Cooklev is an Assistant Professor of
Electrical Engineering at SFSU where he supervises
several graduate students working on wireless network
technology. He is the author of the IEEE Press book
"Wireless communication standards: A Study of 802.11,
802.15, and 802.16" and is an expert in local/sensor
network wireless communication technologies. He has
several years industry experience.
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Glenn Engel has a extensive experience in embedded instrumentation ranging from multi
processor high-end spectrum analyzers to very low cost Internet
enabled devices. Glenn is currently a research scientist for
Agilent Laboratories in their Measuremnt Research Laboratory and is
a contributor to the JDDAC community on java.net. Glenn holds BS
degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Kansas
State University.
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Dr. Toby Garfield has extensive experience in
physical oceanography. He is an Associate Professor of
Geosciences at SFSU and is a Principal Investigator at
the Romberg Tiburon Centre. Dr. Garfield is also
affiliated with the Naval Postgraduate School and NASA's
Ames Research Centre.
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Bill Huynh is
the web admin of this site. He received a BS in Computer
Science from SFSU in 2003 and is currently a MS
candidate at this school. He has experience in designing
user interface for windows applications and web
applications.
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Tai-Wei Lin is an engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
He works with strategic partners from life sciences,
government, and health care segments run their
applications best on Sun. He has extensive background in
integration, performance testing, tuning of enterprise
software and specialized in J2EE.
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James C. Liu, Ph.D. is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun
Microsystems, Inc. working on application architecture
and performance. James Liu is a 10 year veteran at Sun
having worked with developers in many industries. James
holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University
of California at Berkeley and specialized in
Computational Physics in Heat Transfer and Fluid
Mechanics. Prior to joining Sun, James built Intelligent
Risk Management and Stock Exchange Trading Systems in
the Tokyo Financial markets.
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Jerry Liu is a research
scientist at Agilent Laboratories,
and previously at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, with current
research interests in sensor networks, distributed systems, and
measurement data models. He is a co-founder and community leader
for the JDDAC (Java Distributed Data Acquisition and Control)
community on java.net. He holds a MS and BS in Electrical
Engineering from Cornell University.
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Dr. Dragutin Petkovic heads the Computer Science
Department at SFSU. With many years in the computer
industry, both in startups as well as in large corporate
research groups (IBM Research Labs) Dr. Petkovic brings
a strong practical perspective to his work on usability
analysis, UI and data search technologies. He is an IEEE
Fellow with 12 patents and over 55 publications.
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Dr. Arno Puder (PI) is an expert in middleware
architectures and distributed systems. At AT&T Labs
Research he developed MICO, the widely used Open Source
CORBA implementation. With industry experience at
Deutsche Telekom AG he is familiar with the problem of
developing large, scalable, open distributed systems.
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Glen Purdy is a research
scientist at Agilent Laboratories, and
previously at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, with current research interests in
sensor networks and distributed systems. He is a contributor to the
JDDAC (Java Distributed Data Acquisition and Control) community on
java.net. He holds a MS and BS in Electrical Engineering
from University of Michigan.
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Gary Thompson is currently a MS CS candidate at SFSU
with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive
background in designing, building and deploying
industrial controls (specialized sensor networks) in
harsh environments.
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James Todd is a member of the JXTA team at Sun
Microsystems. He is involved with a number of projects
including JXTA configuration and deployment and the
reference JXTA/J2SE application MyJXTA. Prior to JXTA
and while working at Sun since 1992 James has worked on
blogging initiatives, Tomcat, and ECommerce activities
including software distribution, EReg, entitlements,
collaboration and procurement via credit card and
purchase order transactions. Prior to
Sun, James worked at Lockheed initially as a GPS orbit
analyst and later as a member of
special projects.
James is happily married to Tammy for
15 years and they have a 4 year old son Trey. They are
expecting their second child this fall to which Trey has
already named and there appears to be no negotiation on
the matter even though the sex of the child is unknown
at this time.
James has a dual BS degree in Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics and was raised in
Grand Junction on the western slope of Colorado.
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Dr. Jay Warrior leads distributed systems research at
Agilent Labs and is focused on building the "Industrial Infranet".
He has over 15 years of experience creating new networking
technology based business opportunities for Honeywell,
Fisher-Rosemount, and HP/Agilent. He has played lead roles in
multiple networking consortia and standards setting efforts. Dr
Warrior established JDDAC, a joint effort between Agilent Labs
and Sun Microsystems that created the open source java sensor
networking technology used in NetBEAMS.
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James Wright is a Senior Solutions Architect at Sun
Microsystems. He is working in the emerging areas of
sensor systems and RFID solutions. Coming from the
telecommunications industry, James has spent 16 years at
Sun designing, building and delivering software
infrastructure supporting the telecommunications, speech
services and the service provider industries.
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Brian Zambrano is a MS candidate in Computer Science
at SFSU. He holds a BS in materials engineering from Cal
Poly State University, San Luis Obispo and a BS in
computer science from SFSU. He has worked in various
research laboratories as well as in software quality
assurance for Infoseek and eBay.
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