ROCIO ALBA-FLORES, Ph.D

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1 ROCIO ALBA-FLORES, Ph.D Work Address Home Address Electrical Engineering Technology Department 32 High St. State University of New York, Alfred Alfred, NY Upper College Drive, Alfred, NY (607) Phone: (607) Web page: EDUCATION BACKGROUND Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, December Dissertation: On Optimal Tracking and Sliding Mode Control with applications to vibration quenching M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, May M.S. in Electronics, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Puebla, Mexico, Sep B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor and Electromechanical program coordinator, Electrical Engineering Technology Department, State University of New York, Alfred, NY, August 2006-present. Courses taught: Embedded Controller Systems, Real time Operating Systems, Control Systems, Electronics, Electromechanical Analysis, Electrical Machines and Controls. Advised senior projects. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth MN, September 2002-May Courses taught: Microprocessor Systems, Digital Systems Design, Linear Systems and Signal Analysis, Mobile Robots, Image Processing, Circuit Analysis, advised senior projects and Master level theses. Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth MN, September 2000-August Courses taught: Microprocessor Systems, Digital Systems Design, Linear Systems and Signal Analysis, Mobile Robots, advised senior projects. Visiting Professor, Engineering Department, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, August May Courses taught: Microprocessor Systems, Analog and Digital Communications, Analog and Digital Circuits Design, advised senior projects. Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Responsible for the computation and evaluation of metadata for the project Content-Based search prototype for NASA satellite images. Software used: Matlab, Khoros and Cantata. Researcher, Lecturer, and Laboratory Instructor, at the Semiconductors Department, and the College of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Puebla, Mexico, Courses taught: Digital Systems, Microprocessors, Computer Organization, Microcomputer Interfaces, Assembly Language, Pascal, Semiconductor Technology, Analog and Digital Circuits Design, Semiconductor Devices, VLSI Design, Bipolar and MOS Design. Product Engineer, Fairchild Semiconductors, Mexico City, Mexico, Sep.1978-Aug Responsible for technical issues between the customer need and the successful delivery of quality parts to fill that need on time. 1

2 TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Control Systems, Embedded Systems and their applications, Digital and Analog Circuit Design, Mobile Robots, Signal and Image Processing. PUBLICATIONS (Conferences and journals) R. Alba-Flores, "Autonomous Mobile Robot Competitions: An effective tool for engineering Design", Fall 2007 New York State Engineering Technology Association Conference, Alfred, New York, October 11-12, [presentation] R. Alba-Flores, "Laboratory Enhancements for Improving Embedded Systems Education", 2007 American Society for Engineering Education National Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June F. Rios-Gutierrez, R. Alba-Flores, and G. Nordehn, "Detection and Classification of Heart Murmurs using Low frequency Vibrations, Sensors and Support Vector Machines", Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX Feb. 8-9, [conference proceedings] F. Rios-Gutierrez, R. Alba-Flores, "Civic Engagement Projects for Electrical and Computing Engineering Students", ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Nov , [conference proceedings] R. Alba-Flores and E. Barbieri, "Vibration Quenching in Flexible Beams under the Infinite Horizon LQT Framework", 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 8-11, [conference proceedings] F. Rios-Gutierrez, R. Alba-Flores, "Mobile Robots Capstone Design Course", 2006 American Society for Engineering Education, annual conference, Chicago IL, June 18-21, [conference proceeding] R. Alba-Flores, F. Rios-Gutierrez, "Work in Progress: Incorporating Civic Engagement in Design Workshops", 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego CA, Oct , R. Alba-Flores, "Steady-State Linear Quadratic Tracking Controller for Vibration Suppression", 2006 International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Control and Applications, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 24-26, F. Rios-Gutierrez, R. Alba-Flores, K. Ejaz, G. Nordehn, N. Andrisevic and S. Burns, "Classification of Four Types of Common Murmurs using Wavelets and a Learning Vector Quantization Network", IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, N. Andrisevic *, K. Ejaz *, F. Rios Gutierrez, Rocio Alba-Flores, G. Nordehn, and S. Burns, Detection of Heart Murmurs Using Wavelet Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 27, pp , November [ journal] F. Rios-Gutierrez, R. Alba-Flores, and S. Norr, Mobile Robots: Tool for Interdisciplinary Design, Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE North Midwest Regional Conference, Brookings, SD, Oct , Rocio Alba-Flores, "Evaluation of the Use of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery in Transportation Applications", Research report published by the ITS Institute at the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota, Report no. CTS 05-11, August, [technical report] N. Andrisevic, K. Ejaz, F. Rios Gutierrez, R. Alba-Flores, G. Nordehn, and S. Burns, Detection of Heart Murmurs Using Wavelet Packet Analysis and Artificial Networks", The Design of Medical Devices Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 13-14, Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Rocio Alba-Flores, A Low Cost Fault Tolerant System for Control and Educational Applications, IASTED, International conference on Circuits, Signals and Systems, Clearwater, Beach FL, Nov K. Ejaz, G. Nordheen, R. Alba-Flores, et.al., A Heart Murmur Detection System Using Spectograms and Artificial Neural Networks, 2004 International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Circuits, Signals and Systems, Clear Water Beach, FL, USA, November 28-December 1,

3 R. Alba-Flores, S. Kuthadi, F. Rios-Gutierrez, Detecting and Counting Vehicles from High Resolution Satellite Images, 2004 International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Circuits, Signals and Systems, Clear Water Beach, FL, USA, November 28- December 1, 2004 R. Alba-Flores, F. Rios-Gutierrez, C. Carroll, Robotic Workshop, a tool to encourage High School students to pursue Engineering Careers, Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA-04), July 21-25, 2004, Orlando FL, USA. F. Rios-Gutierrez, R. Alba-Flores, Wireless Technology as a Tool for Interactive Learning in Electrical Engineering Courses, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 20-23, [conference proceeding] R. Alba-Flores, F. Rios-Gutierrez, M. Stachowicz, Intelligent Toys and Fuzzy Robots: Capstone Design Projects for ECE Students, Proceedings of the 2004 World Automation Congress- International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (WAC-ISORA), Seville Spain, June28-July 1, R. Alba-Flores, M.S. Stachowicz, Fuzzy Mobile Robots: a Student Design Workshop, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education, Nashville, TN, June C. Carroll, R. Alba-Flores, F. Rios-Gutierrez, A New Life for the MC68HC11 Evaluation Board, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education, Montreal, Canada, June R. Alba-Flores, "Control Actuator-Integration Based on Sliding Mode Control, Proceedings of the X International Conference on Electronics, Communications & Computers, Mexico, February 26-28,2001. E. Barbieri, R. Alba-Flores, "On the infinite-horizon LQ tracker", Systems and Control Letters, 40 (2000), pp [ journal] RESEARCH PROJECTS Rocio Alba-Flores (Co-PI), "Heart Sound Pathological Classification". Application of signal processing, image processing, and artificial intelligence techniques to detect pathological murmurs. Funded by the Whiteside Institute for Clinical Research. Duluth, MN, 55812, January June Rocio Alba-Flores (Co-PI), "Sensors System for Autonomous Navigation". Funded by the Northland Advanced Transportation Systems Research Laboratory, University of Minnesota Duluth. Duluth, MN 55812, March-July Rocio Alba-Flores (PI), "Vehicle Detection from Satellite Images". Funded by the Northland Advanced Transportation Systems Research Laboratory, University of Minnesota Duluth. Duluth, MN 55812, January June Rocio Alba-Flores, (Research Assistant), "Computation of Metadata for Satellite Images", Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 75118, September May TEACHING Courses taught at the State University of New York, Alfred ( Present) ELET 2143: Embedded Controller Fundamentals ELET 3144: Embedded Controller Applications EMET 3424: Electromechanical Analysis Laboratory ELET 4143: Electrical Machines and Controls EMET 6004: Control Systems ELET 7404: Embedded and Real Time Operating Systems 3

4 Courses taught at Alfred University ( Present) ELEC 354: Electronics I ELEC 356: Electronics II Courses taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN ( ) ECE 1315: Digital System Design. ECE 2325: Microcomputer System Design. ECE 2006: Electrical Circuit Analysis. ECE 2111: Linear Systems and Signal Analysis. ECE 4951: Mobile Robots. ECE 8741: Digital Image Processing (Graduate). Courses taught at Trinity College, Hartford CT ( ) ENGR 323: Microprocessor Systems. ENGR 303: Analog and Digital Communications. ENGR 308: Semiconductor Electronics II. Advising Senior Projects (title of sample of senior projects) Web based home alarm system Remotely operated underwater vehicle Fuzzy logic race car Image based robotic navigational control system Intelligent ground vehicle Firefighting mobile robot Participation with undergraduate students in internationals robotic competitions Annual Fire Fighting Robot Contest, Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut (April 2002, April 2003, April 2004, April 2006, April 2007) Annual Autonomous Lawnmower Competition, Dayton, Ohio (May 2007) Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), Oakland University, Michigan (June 2005, June 2006). Advising Undergraduate Research Projects (student name, project title) Blake Erickson, "Autonomous Car", Fall Robert Flaaen, "Voice recognition in Autonomous Systems", Spring Erik Koperud, " Visual Control for a robotic Manipulator: Image Processing, object recognition and Extraction", Spring Hasan Khan, "Detection of objects from high resolution satellite images using the Bayesian Decision algorithm", Spring Kevin Kaufeld, " Maze-mapping and navigation algorithms for robotic systems", Fall Joseph Ricasio, " An algorithm to detect S1 and S2 heart sounds to determine a cycle-based window for a AI systems", Summer-Fall Yukti Gurung, "Training and Learning algorithms for a four-legged walking robot", Summer Paul Bushey,"Design and construction of a fully autonomous intelligent ground vehicle" Spring 2006 Master students graduated (student name, Thesis title) Khaled Ejaz, "Detection and Classification of Four Types of Common Cardiac Murmurs", May 2005 Spencer Strunic, "Analysis of heart sounds using artificial intelligence techniques", December Paper Reviewer Several conferences including FLAIRS, ASEE, Frontiers in Education, IEEE Conference on Control Applications The Technology Interface: Electronic Journal for Engineering Technology 4

5 SERVICE Current work: Member: Faculty Senate, SUNY, Alfred Member: Promotion and Tenure Steering Committee, SUNY, Alfred Advisor: IEEE Student Branch, SUNY, Alfred Participation in the EET department open houses, SUNY, Alfred Previous work: Member: Committee of Master in Science in ECE Program Proposal, UMD Member: ECE Faculty Search Committee, UMD Member: Laboratory Equipment Committee, UMD Orientation Advising in the College of Science and Engineering, UMD Participation in the annual Engineering Day, UMD 5