Alumni Bradley Scholars and
Fellows
Alumni Scholars
JoAnn M. (Zahurones) Adams (BSEE, '94)
Co-owner and Web Designer
Big Fish Design
Centreville, Virginia
Christopher R. Anderson (BSEE, '99)
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
Anderson is a Bradley Fellow working in the Mobile and Portable
Radio Research Group.
Kirsten (Rasmussen) Brown (BSEE, '94)
MBA, Univ. of Virginia '98
Alexandria, Virginia
Brown spent the past two years as a management consultant for
Booz, Allen, Hamilton, Inc. in New York, primarily working with
insurance companies and financial service firms to develop business
and information technology strategy. In July, she gave birth
to Alexander Gordon Brown and now lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Scott Cappiello (BSCpE, '94)
M.S., Stanford University, '95
Program Manager
MicroStrategy, Inc.
Arlington, Virginia
Cappiello's team was responsible for last summer's release of
Micro-Strategy 7, the company's core business intelligence platform.
Microstrategy is a provider of business intelligence software.
His team He serves as a member of the Tech Alumni Association
Board of Directors.
J. Matthew Carson (BSEE, '98)
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
After working for two years for General Motors, Carson returned
to Tech for an MS in mechanical engineering, specializing in
controls. He still enjoys autocrossing with the SCCA and obtained
his private pilot's license last year.
Phillip A. Danner (BSEE, '91)
M.S., Univ. of Virginia
Vice President
GE Cisco
Charlottesville, Virginia
Danner took a position as vice president of technology for GE
Cisco, a newly formed joint venture that is focused on end-to-end
Ethernet networking solutions for the industrial market and non-office
space. He has spent the past 10 years with GE Fanuc, during which
time he earned nine management awards. He serves as president
of the Charlottesville Chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association,
and still hopes to return to Tech one day for a Ph.D.
Scott Davis (BSCpE, '00)
W. Ashley Eanes (BSEE, '95)
Engineer, Duke Engineering and Services
Charlotte, North Carolina
Richard Ertel (Ph.D. '99)
Ertel completed his dissertation on "Antenna Array Systems:
Propagation and Performance."
Kevin Flanagan (BSCpE, '00)
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
Flanagan is completing his MSCpE degree this spring. He plans
to work full time with Intel in Folsom, California after graduation.
Jayda Freibert (BSEE, '98)
Electrical Engineer
Kimberly-Clark
Neenah, Wisconsin
Freibert transferred last fall to Kimberly-Clark's Family Care
Sector and is working on improvement and capital projects. She
travels often to the plants located across the country. Her technical
interests include vision systems, sensing, and modular control
systems.
Bradley Gale (BSEE, '97)
Software Engineer
Litton Marine Systems
Charlottesville, Virginia
Gale is currently a C++ software engineer working on a team that
develops navigational software for U.S. Naval ships.
Daniel Gillespie (BSCpE, '95)
Senior Software Engineer
Intel Corp.
Hillsboro, Oregon
J. Todd Hutson (BSEE, '93)
M.S. George Washington University
Sprint
Reston, Virginia
Zion W. Lo (BSEE '94)
M.S. '96, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Software Engineer, Quark
Denver, Colorado
Lo is enjoying his work at Quark, a publishing software company
founded in 1981. His role is to provide technical leadership
for his group, Common Components, which is charged with developing
and harvesting common, reusable components for the company as
a whole.
Cheryl Duty Martin (BSEE, '95)
MSEE, '97; Univ. of Texas - Austin
Austin, Texas
Martin plans to finish her Ph.D. this May. Her research area
is distributed artificial intelligence, and her research focuses
on dynamic reorganization of multi-agent systems with respect
to distribution of decision-making control.
Eric J. Mayfield (BSEE, '97)
Garrett Mears (BSCpE, '00)
Engineer
Signalscape, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Mears is an engineer at Signalscape, a company developing digital
signal processing products and related direct service engineering
contracts. He has also done some freelance graphic design work.
Neal Patwari
(BSEE, '97, MSEE, '99)
Research Engineer
Motorola Labs
Plantation, Florida
Patwari has been researching wireless communication system design
for outdoor and indoor radio location systems. He also researches
physical and MAC layer technologies for ad hoc wireless networks.
He earned a first place paper awarded at Motorola's System Symposium
and a BRAVO award . He is an officer of the South Florida chapter
of the Alumni Association.
Joseph Payne (BSEE, '00)
Graduate Student
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Payne is on a Stanford Graduate Fellowship working on building
and deploying a mobile interferometer array to study current
flow in the ionosphere.
Yaron Rachlin (BSEE, '00; BA Mathematics, '00)
Graduate Student
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Rachlin is currently working on his master's in electrical and
computer engineering and is involved in research into machine
learning, model selection, and intelligent environments.
Thomas Rose (BSEE, '94)
MSEE Univ. of Arizona
Microwave RF Engineer
Raytheon Electronic Systems
Watertown, Massachusetts
Graham Stead (BSCpE, '93)
MSEE George Mason Univ.
Invertix, Inc.
Arlington, Virginia
Jennifer (Hastings) Steel (BSEE, '96)
Software Engineer
Advertising.com
Baltimore, Maryland
Scott M. Stern (BSEE, '93)
MSEE, '95, Purdue University
Senior Firmware Engineer
Tollgrade Communications
Cheswick, Pennsylvania
Stern joined Tollgrade last June and he writes firmware for the
"Headend Controller" of the firm's Lighthouse product,
which is a status monitoring system for Hybrid Fiber/Coax (HFC)
networks. These networks are typically used to deliver cable
TV, Internet, and telephone service.
Anne Palmore Stublen
(BSEE, '91)
Newark, Delaware
Wesley Wade (BSEE '93)
Systems Engineer
SRA Co.
Vienna, Virginia
William Worek (BSCpE, '99)
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
Kai Xu (BSEE '95)
Graduate Student
University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, California
After four years at Hewlett Packard, Xu returned to school to
pursue an MBA degree at the Haas School of Business. He expects
to graduate in May. He worked at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
during the summer of 2000, and recently co-founded a company
to interconnect heterogeneous wireless access networks. He recently
was awarded a patent for an intelligent interrupt routing technology
that reduces failures in computer systems.
Alumni Fellows
Robert Adams (Ph.D., '98)
Research Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Adams has been extending his work on well-posed formulations
of Maxwell's equations in computational electromagnetics. His
results have received increasing interest and are being incorporated
into the standard code by many organizations.
J. Shawn Addington
(Ph.D., '96)
Associate Professor
Virginia Military Institute
Addington was promoted to associate professor this past year
- and awarded the VMI Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award. He continues
his work developing the microelectronics program at VMI, including
new course and lab development. He is also collaborating with
Dabney S. Lancaster Community College, the Rockbridge County
School System, and the Rockbridge Partnership in electronics/microelectronics
education and training. He coordinates EE activities for VMI's
summer engineering camps and volunteers as a member of "Hull's
Angels," a community group dedicated to the restoration
of a local drive-in theater.
Carrie Ellen Aust (BSCpE, '98; MSEE, 2000)
Analog VLSI Design
Engineer
IBM
Morrisville, North Carolina
Brian L. Berg
Agilent Technologies
Agoura Hills, California
Ray Bittner (Ph.D., '97)
Microsoft Company
Redmond, Washington
Steven Bucca (BSEE, '87; MSEE, '89)
Bryan Browe
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
R. Michael Buehrer
(Ph.D., '96)
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
Bell Labs- Lucent Tech.
Whippany, New Jersey
Buehrer was promoted to Distinguished Member of the Technical
last year, and awarded a patent on interference cancellation
architecture. He is also currently serving as an adjunct professor
of electrical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Charles F. Bunting (MSEE, '92; Ph.D., '94)
Associate Professor in Engineering Technology
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
Bunting was recently promoted and tenured as an associate professor.
He continues to receive funding for research related to electromagnetic
compatibility and reverberation phenomena associated with aircraft
safety. He has received nearly $400,000 in total funding in this
area. He reports that his first MSEE graduate student successfully
defended his thesis last fall.
Bradley A. Davis (BSEE, '86; MSEE, '88, Ph.D. '00)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Davis is currently a visiting assistant professor of electrical
and computer engineering at Tech. He is teaching a class in signals
and systems and is exploring further developments in numerical
electromagnetics. His dissertation work involved modeling of
a random media above a rough surface, for which he employed a
combination of both analytical and computational electromagnetic
techniques. He developed a propagation and scattering model that
is based on a rapid evaluation of the radiate transfer equations.
Joel A. Donahue
(MSEE, '94)
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
Donahue is completing his dissertation work, which involves investigating
real-time adaptive feedback for active noise control in reverberant
acoustic chambers. He is a registered professional engineer and
co-holder of two patents.
Thomas Drayer (BSEE, '87; MSEE, '91; Ph.D. '97)
Senior Engineer
U.S. Department of Defense
Bradley Duncan (Ph.D., '91)
Associate Professor
University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio
Duncan continues to enjoy his teaching and research in electrical
engineering and optics. This past year he opened UD's new photonics
laboratory to give undergraduates and graduate students experience
in materials testing, fiber-optic communication, optical image
processing, and information management.
Gregory D. Durgin
(BSEE '96, MSEE '98)
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
Brian Flanagan
(BSEE, '97; MSEE, '98)
Senior Circuit Design Eng.
Intel Corp.
Austin, Texas
Flanagan is one of Intel's circuit design engineers and contributed
to the design of the Pentium® 4 microprocessor. He continues
to work on next-generation microprocessor designs.
Dwayne Hawbaker
(BSEE '89; MSEE, '91)
Senior Staff Engineer
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
Jason R. Hess
(BSEE, '97; MSEE, '99)
Hardware Designer
Cisco Systems
Austin, Texas
Hess is a hardware designer in a group that designs DSL equipment
for the telephone central office and outside plant locations.
David A. Kapp
(MSEE, '93; Ph.D. '95)
EM Research Scientist
DEMACO/SAIC
Champaign, Illinois
Kapp is an electromagnetics research scientist developing radar
signature prediction software (Xpatch). He has been with DEMACO/SAIC
for four years.
William Kuhn (Ph.D., '96)
Associate Professor, EECE
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
This past year, Kuhn was promoted and tenured. He is working
on an NSF-sponsored project to combine teaching and research
activities (http://www.eece. ksu.edu/vlsi/bluetooth). He has
additional sponsored research through NASA/JPL's Center for Integrated
Space Microsystems, and Motorola's University Partners in Research
program.
Paul Kline (Ph.D., '97)
Research Engineer
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Jeff D. Laster (MSEE, '94; Ph.D., '97)
Innosync
Dallas Texas
Laster recently joined Innosync, a new company in Dallas, Texas.
He reports that he had three patent disclosures in the year 2000.
Joseph Liberti (Ph.D. '95)
Bellcore
Red Bank, New Jersey
John McHenry (BSEE, '88; MSEE, '90; Ph.D. '93)
Senior Electronic Engineer
Department of Defense
Odenton, Maryland
McHenry is at the Department of Defense Laboratory for Telecommunications
Sciences. His research interests include FPGA design, network
security, and high-speed networking. Last October, he received
a patent for "Firewall Security Apparatus for High-Speed
Circuit Switched Networks."
Paul Nguyen (BSCpE, '98; MSCpE, '99)
Software Engineer
Fairfax, Virginia
Nguyen is working on a team to design and implement a multi-tiered,
Internet-enabled, enterprise-wide financial system. This is a
pioneer project in the company and its success will determine
the direction of the company's software development strategy.
Michael Newkirk (BSEE '88; MSEE, '90; Ph.D. '95)
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Newkirk's current interests include electromagnetic wave propagation
modeling, radar system design and performance modeling, radar
system field test planning, execution, and post-test analysis.
He received the Department of the Navy Program Executive Office
- Theater Surface Combatants (PEO-TSC) Group Excellence Award
for support of Standard Missile NATO Integrations testing in
Den Helder, The Netherlands.
Eric Nuckols (MSEE, '99)
Communications Systems Network Engineer
ITT Advanced Engineering and Sciences
Steven Schulz (MSEE, '91)
General Motors Advanced Technology Vehicles
Redondo Beach, California
Schulz is currently involved in developing controls for high-performance
traction motor drives. Applications would include electric and
hybrid vehicles, and cover several types of machines (induction,
switched reluctance, etc.).
David Tarnoff (BSEE, '87; MSEE, '91)
Consultant, and
Assistant Professor
East Tennessee State Univ.
Tarnoff started his own consulting business in August of 1999,
focusing on remote control and automation of equipment of networks,
both local and global. In August 2000, he also started his position
of assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information
Sciences at East Tennessee State University. He teaches both
hardware design and web programming, which he finds challenging
and enjoyable.
Matthew C. Valenti (Ph.D., '99)
Assistant Professor
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia
Valenti is an assistant professor of computer science and electrical
engineering.
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