head of Lidar Laboratory for Atmospheric Research Director 2008 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Director 2010
member of Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Member
selected publications academic article Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Particles Using LIDAR, Calipso Satellite, & AERONET: Algorithm Development. WSEAS Transactions on Systems. 8. 2009 conference paper UPRM Boundary Layer Data Improvements Implementing Variable Overlap Correction. IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing. 2012 Implementation of a Lidar System and its Usage in Characterization of Aerosols in the Atmospheric Column. International Conference on Instrumentation, Measurements, Circuits and Systems. 2009 Aerosol Optical Depth Spatial Variation as Sensed by a Sunphotometer and Compared to a Fixed AERONET Station. Signal and Image Processing (SIP) Proceedings. 2008 Aerosol Size Distribution Using Sun-Photometer and Artificial Neural Network. WSEAS International Conference. 2008
presentations presentation Effectiveness of Aerosol Size Distribution Determination Using Sun-Photometer with Supervised Training, Collaborator, WSEAS Transactions on Systems 2008 UPRM Lidar Assembly and Application to Aerosol Characterization, Collaborator, WSEAS International Conference on Systems 2008
teaching overview Academic Interests: -Aerosol Characterization using Sunphotometer/AERONET/Ceilometers -Soil Type and Moisture Determination using Radar -Vegetation Health Index Determination using Radar -Image Processing and Classification -Communications -Microprocessors
professional service activities Lidar Coordinator for the Design, Purchase, Assembly, and Testing of the First Lidar System in the Caribbean Region 2007 - 2008
education and training Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1979 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1973 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Oregon State University 1971 B.S. in Mathematics, Oregon State University 1970
