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Contents 1 Past Postdocs 2 Past Ph.D. Students 3 Past M.S. Students 4 Past B.S. Students

Past Postdocs

• Vishwesh Kulkarni, 2003-2005 (currently a Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)

• Lidija Trailovic, 2003-2004 (currently at Northrop Grumman Corporation, Denver, CO)

Past Ph.D. Students

• Richard M. Powers (currently Vice President of R & D at RavenBrick LLC, Denver, CO)

Ph.D., 2007

Track-Loss Detection in the Absense of Truth Data for Target Tracking in Clutter

• Nicholas L. Bernstein (currently at Touch of Life Technologies, Aurora, CO)

Ph.D., 2007

Force Sensor Modeling and Friction Compensation for Haptic Interfaces

(co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

• Kathryn E. Johnson (currently on the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; formerly at the National Wind Technology Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 2004-2005)

Ph.D., 2004

Adaptive Torque Control of Variable Speed Wind Turbines

(co-advised with Mark A. Balas)

• Chanat La-orpacharapan (currently at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA)

Ph.D., 2004

Shaped Time-Optimal Closed-Loop Servomechanisms

• Weerawat Khawsuk (currently on the faculty at the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Nakhon Nayok, Thailand)

Ph.D., 2004

Decorrelated State Estimation for Distributed Tracking in Cluttered Environments

Recipient of the ECE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Academic Year 2001-2002

• Matthew D. Baumgart (currently at Ball Corporation, Boulder, CO)

Ph.D., 2003

Control of Web-Winding Systems

• Lidija Trailovic (currently at Northrop Grumman Corporation, Denver, CO)

(formerly a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Pensacola, FL, 2001-2002)

Ph.D., 2002

Ranking and Optimization of Target Tracking Algorithms

• Christopher D. Lee (currently at Medical Simulation Corporation, Denver, CO)

Ph.D., 2002

Modeling Mechanism and Hand Impedances for Improved Control of Parallel Haptic Interfaces

(co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

• Craig F. Cutforth (currently a Senior Servo Engineer at Seagate Technology, Longmont, CO)

Ph.D., 2002

Analysis and Design of Fast Input Shapers for the Control of Flexible Structures

• Michael K. Kalandros (currently a Senior Staff Member at Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia, MD)

Ph.D., 2001

Managing Multiple Sensor Resources using Covariance Control Techniques for Tracking Systems with Data Association

• Mark A. Lau (currently on the faculty at Turabo University, Puerto Rico)

(formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, 2001-2002)

Ph.D., 2000

Input Shaping and Time-Optimal Control of Flexible Structures

Recipient of the conference-wide Student Best Paper Award at the 2001 American Control Conference

Past M.S. Students

• Sutha Aphanuphong (M.S., 2006, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2005 World Haptics Conference

• Yegor Plam (M.S., 2003, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

• Weibin Xu (M.S., 2004, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Co-recipient of the Best Commercial Potential Award at the 2004 International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems

• Brian P. Reichenberger (M.S., 2002, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

• Roman Y. Novoselov (currently working at Numerica, Inc., Fort Collins, CO)

(formerly worked at CDM Optics, Boulder, CO, 2001-2002)

(co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

M.S., 2002

Haptic Rendering of Data on Irregular and Unstructured Grids

• Nathan T. Baltz (currently President of PhotoSense, Boulder, CO)

M.S., 1999

Allocation of Sensing Resources in Distributed Multiprocessor Systems

• Shane Brown (M.S., 1999, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

• Farid Infed (M.S., 1999, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

• Yiannis (John) Pavlou (currently working at National Instruments, Austin, TX)

(M.S., 1998, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

• Neil A. Duchane (currently working at Raytheon)

(formerly worked at Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, 1998-2000) (M.S., 1998)

• Matthew D. Leoni (M.S., 1996)

• Vimal P. Patel (currently working at Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale, CA) (M.S., 1996)

• Christian W. Frei (currently working at Swiss Capital Alternative Investments AG, Zurich, Switzerland; formerly at BT&T Asset Management, Urdorf, Switzerland)

(Ph.D., 2000, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)

M.S., 1995 (Northwestern University)

A Comparison of Parallel and Sequential Implementations of a Multisensor Multitarget Tracking Algorithm

• Robert N. Itschner (currently working at ABB, Zurich, Switzerland)

M.S., 1995 (Northwestern University)

Development of a Control System for the Utah/MIT Dextrous Robotic Hand

Past B.S. Students

• Daniel B. Kopelove (B.S., expected 2009)

• Jeff Swetnam (B.S., 2004)

• Andrew C. White (currently working at Raytheon, Denver, CO) (B.S., 2004)

Co-recipient of the Best Commercial Potential Award at the 2004 International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems

• Aleksandr M. Arustamyan (B.S./M.S., 2003)

• Bryan A. Montross (B.S., 2001)

• Flor Shirzadian (currently working at Hewlett Packard) (B.S., 2000)

• Roman Novoselov (currently working at Numerica, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; formerly worked at CDM Optics, Boulder, CO, 2001-2002; MS student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999-2001) (B.S., 1999)

• Darrell L. Barnhart (currently pursuing graduate studies at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT) (B.S., 1996)

• Radu C. Frangopol (B.S., 1996)

• Craig S. Lindqvist (now in the MBA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder; worked at Boeing, Seattle, WA from 1996 until 2002) (B.S., 1996)

• Kheong S. Chan (currently pursuing graduate studies at National University of Singapore, Singapore) (B.S., Northwestern University, 1996)

• Nathan V. Le (currently working at Motorola, Pheonix, AZ) (B.S., Northwestern University, 1996)