Aleksander Malinowski's detailed Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data:

Name:	Aleksander MALINOWSKI
Address:	ECE Dept. Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625, USA
Phones:	office: +1 (309) 677 2776, fax: + 1 (309) 677 3670
E-mail:
URL:	http://gdansk.bradley.edu/olekmali/
Languages:	Native - Polish, Excellent - English; Some - German, Russian
Membership:	The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), since 1992, Senior Member IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Administrative Committee Member, Web and Information Committee Chair, Web Page Editor since 1999 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Hobbies:	amateur photography, computers, electronic music, traveling, hiking, fresh water aquarium, bicycling

Employment:

• Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, August 2004 - present
  • Research in the areas of networked small embedded systems and autonomous mobile agent navigation
  • John Andrews Award for Excellence in Service, March 5, 2008
  • Developed course on Autonomous Mobile Agents and laboratory for Networked Embedded Systems
  • Taught software, embedded systems and computer networks related courses both at undergraduate and graduate levels, supervised senior capstone projects and M.S. students
• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, August 1998 - August 2004
  • Research in the areas of network computing, computer networks and Web based control
  • John Andrews Award for Excellence in Service, February 17, 2004
  • Developed courses: Web programming, Network Computing and Computer Networks
  • Taught software, computer networks and digital circuits related courses both at undergraduate and graduate levels, supervised senior capstone projects and M.Sc. students
• Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Wyoming, August 1997 - July 1998
  • Taught in the areas of microprocessors, computer architecture, programming, internet programming
  • Research in the areas of internet programming, computer networks and web programming
• Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, January - September 1997
  • Director of the Basics of Electronics and Semiconductor Devices Laboratory
  • Coordinated work of six faculty and staff members teaching in the laboratory
• Lecturer , Private Computer Science College Lingwista Oswiata, Gdansk, Poland, March - July 1997
• Software Developer/Programmer, Kidney Disease Program, Baptist Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, June 1995 - December 1996
  • Developed software in C++/OWL for custom Windows applications and for palmtop computers (limited resources)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Louisville, July-December 1996
  • Developed a software package for "Manufacturing Yield Optimization with Design Centering", application of inverse modeling and artificial neural network technology
  • Coordinated M.Sc. students in Dr. Zurada's Research Group
• University Fellow and Research Assistant, University of Louisville, August 1992 - May 1996
  • Research in the area of computational intelligence and artificial neural networks
  • J. R. Binford Memorial Award given for excellence in the doctoral program, May 1997
• Teaching and Research Assistant, Technical University of Gdansk, 1989 - 1992

Education:

• Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, July - December 1996
• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, with highest honors, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, August 16, 1996
• M.Sc. in Electronics, Department of Electronics, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, May 1990

Skills:

• Computer programming:   C/C++ (embedded, console, GUI, client-server, 8051), JAVA, PERL, PHP, CGI, some assembly
• Operating systems:   MS-Windows, UNIX/Solaris, Linux, PC/DOS, PalmOS, Silicon Labs TCP/IP Stack
• CAD Packages:   Altera, Xilinx, OrCAD/SPICE, SNNS, Ledit, Maple
• Design and analysis:   Analog and digital electronic circuits, VHDL, FPGA, basics of VLSI
• DTP and HTML:   Microsoft Office, Open Office, Dream Weaver, XHTML, Apache (LAMP), IIS

Fields of interest:

• Network-connected embedded systems, network and Web programming, network computing
• Telerobotics and autonomous vehicle navigation
• Network Based Control and Monitoring Systems
• Computer simulation and modelling, computational intelligence, neural networks

Selected Awards:

• John Andrews Award for Excellence in Service awarded by Bradley University (twice), February 17, 2004 and March 5, 2008
• 2003 Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Roanoke, VA, November 4, 2003, given for excellence in service to the Society
• Elected for Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), May 6, 2000
• John Richard Binford Memorial Award, given for excellence in the doctoral program, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, May 9, 1997
• Graduate School Dean's Citation, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, May 1997
• Awarded University of Louisville Fellowship for academic years 1992-1996
• Yearly Awarded "The President of Technical University of Gdansk Outstanding Student" 1985-1990

Teaching Experience:

• Bradley University (1998-present, updated in spring 2008)
  • EE 102 Computers and Programming in EE (13 times, 1998-2008)
  • EE 221 Structured Programming with C (14 times, 1998-2005)
  • EE 221 Data Structures and OOP (4 times, 2006-2008)
  • EE 311 Digital Design (6 times, 2001-2007)
  • EE 409/EE 691 Web Programming for EE (5 times, 1999-2003)
  • EE 409/EE 691 TCP/IP Network Programming for Embedded Systems (2 time, 2005-2007)
  • EE 409 Introduction to PamOS Programming (1 time, 2002)
  • EE 409 Fuzzy Cellular Modeling (1 time, 2005)
  • EE 410/EE 692 Autonomous Mobile Agents (1 time, 2008)
  • EE 410/EE 692 Computer Networks (5 times, 2000-2004)
  • EE 410/EE 692 Web Based Control (3 times, 2005-2007)
  • EE 691 Network Computing (1 time, 1999)
  • Supervised 20+ senior capstone projects (1998-2008)
  • Supervised 10 M.Sc. students (1998-2008)
• University of Wyoming (1997-1998)
  • EE-2390 Digital System Design (1997)
  • ES-3070 C with Numerical Methods for Engineers (1997-1998)
  • EE-5390 Microprocessors and Finite State Machines (1998)
  • EE-5800 Advanced Network Programming (1998)
• Technical University of Gdansk (1989-1992, 1997)
  (also tutorials taught before receiving Ph.D.)
  • Programming in C/C++ languages (1997)
  • Principles of Electronics (1989-1992, 1997)
  • Physics of Semiconductor Devices (1989-1992, 1997)
  • Devices Modeling and Circuit Simulation (1990-1992)
• Tutorials at a Private College (1997)
  • Unix Operating System (1997)
  • Web Publishing with HTML (1997)

Recent Professional Service

• Recent Volunteer Work
  • Administrative Committee Member for IEEE Industrial Electronic Society (2005-2007, reelected 2008-2010)
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (2007-)
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics (2005-2006)
  • Officer for IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, Editor of the Society Newsletter (2002-2004)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter (1998-2001)
  • Chair of the Web and Information Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2005-2007)
  • Member of the Conference Board of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2004-2007)
  • Member of the Publications Board of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2006-2007)
  • Web Page Editor for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) (2007-present)
  • Webmaster for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) (1999-2007)
• Recent Volunteer Work for Professional Conferences
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2005-2006)
  • Conference Technical Co-chair for:
    • 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2006)
    • 31st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2005)
  • Conference Program Co-chair for:
    • 2008 IEEE Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI 2008)
  • Conference Technical Track Co-chair for:
    • 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2007)
    • IECON 2003, IECON 2002, IECON 2001
    • 2006 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2006), ICIT 2004
    • ISIE 2004
  • Special Session Chair at many IES sponsored conferences
• Recent Service as Reviewer for Journals
  • IEEE Transaction on Education (1998-present)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2006)
  • IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks (2001, 2003, 2006)
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation (2002)
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2002)
• Recent Service as Reviewer for Confenrences
  • The Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2000-2003, 2005-2006)
  • International Joint Congress on Neural Networks (2002-2003)
  • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2003)
  • IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (2002)
• Recent University Committee Work at Different Levels
  • Member of the Bradley University Senate (2007-)
  • Member of the Faculty Search Committee ECE Department at Bradley University (1999-2005, 2007)
  • Member of the advisory committee for Bradley University Web Site (2002-2005)
  • Member of the advisory subcommittee for Internet2 at Bradley University (2004)
  • Member of the advisory committee for Bradley University Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute (1998-2000)

Funded Projects

• Network-Based Communication and Telepresence; Principal Investigator in the project sponsored by Motorola, $100,000; June 1999-May 2001. Specific information cannot be disclosed.
• Remote monitoring of a PointSix network of electronic sensors over Internet using client-server architecture implemented in Java; partially sponsored by Bradley University Graduate School grant for summer research, $600; June-September 2000

Participation in or Supervision of Selected Projects

• Motorola ColdFire based Industry Controller with Networked Embedded System with Web Interface. See URL: http://cegt201.bradley.edu/projects/proj2006/netsys/.
• Self-Mapping and Navigation of Mobile Robots; supervised 2 senior projects; See complete list of autonomous and telerobotic projects at URL: http://gdansk.bradley.edu/olekmali/projects/telebot/.
• WISENET - TinyOS Based Wireless Network of Sensors; 2 student projects dedicated to porting of Berkeley's TinyOS to 8051 family of microprocessors with RF com link; sensors interfaced to an SQL database with Web interface. See URL: http://cegt201.bradley.edu/projects/proj2003/wisenet/.
• "Web-Controlled Robots"; Supervisor of 8 senior student capstone projects; client-server programming in Java and C; motor control using 8051 family embedded system interfaced to PC-104; Real time control over low-bandwidth Internet; interfacing networked computer to moving robots and small vehicles; HC11-based microcontrollers programmed in assembly language, interfaced to sensors and to a network server; Septemebr 1998-present. See URL: http://gdansk.bradley.edu/olekmali/projects/telebot/.
• "Web-based Document Collection System"; Developed a custom system to support document collection for the Annual Conference of Industrial Electronics Society; CGI programming in PERL and dynamic HTML with JavaScript, February-August 2001; See URL: http://submit.ieee-ies.org/submit/
• "Extension Spring Design Calculator" - internet accessible Mechanical Engineering CAD tool for Mechanical Engineers; project consultant supervising work of 3 students; Web programming in Java and JavaScript; December 1997-August 1998. See URL: http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/commend/
• "Intranet and Internet Software access: Compilers and Other Software Accessible through WWW pages"; Web programming in PERL, Java, and Java Script; running a web server in Win32 environment; September 1997-June 1998.
• Porting of Berkeley source code of SPICE3 and NUTMEG to PC-DOS and NT 32-bit environment; joint projects; February 1997, January 1998; The spice engine was powering the Spice Internet Package (SIP) at http://gdansk.bradley.edu/sip/ until fall 2007.
• "APRW - Multi-layer Feed-forward Neural Network Developer"; Package for NN development; code in C++ for Windows, OWL; October-December 1996.
• "DES-CENT - Software Package for Process Modeling and Design Centering"; Application of neural networks to nonlinear modeling and optimization; 7050 lines of code in generic C++; July-December 1996.
• "GENTDOSE - Neural Network Predicted Peak and Trough Gentamicin Concentrations"; Application of neural networks to pharmacology; 4500 lines of code in C++ for Windows, OWL; March-July 1996. Also
  "PREDDOSE - Neural Network Predicted Peak and Trough Gentamicin Concentrations"; Application of neural networks to pharmacology; 8000 lines of code in C++/DOS and HP palmtop; April 1995-February 1996.
• "RECON - Typists' Identification Using Their Typing Style and Habits"; Engineering Day's Project, February 1993; Application of neural networks; 1000 lines of code in Turbo Pascal/DOS; 1993. First Prize Winner, Student Paper Contest, organized by the Louisville Section of IEEE.
• "NEWMARK4 - Numerical solver for up to four nonlinear differential equations given in the analytical way"; 6800 lines of code in Pascal; Part of a larger joint project of 12600 lines of code on Calculus Package for Mechanical Engineers ; 1991.
• "Computer-Aided Verification of Mask Design and Device Parameter Extraction for MOS Technologies Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits"; M.Sc. Thesis; 5000 lines of code in Pascal/DOS; 1988-1989.
• "VIENA - Software Package for Inventory Tracking for the Merchandise Company La Panthera, Vienna, Austria", joint project; 15000 lines of code in Pascal and assembly language/DOS; 1988.
• "SUC - Digital Integrated Circuits Simulating Program for Microcomputers"; joint project; 4000 lines of code in Pascal/DOS; 1987-1988.
• "PED Computer Aided Mask Layout Design"; joint projects; program implemented in Polish semiconductor industry; 2300 lines of code in Pascal/DOS; 1987.
• "FM-Band Stereo Tuner with PLL Stereo Decoder"; factory-provided VHF input circuit with two bi-gate MOS, application of MC1200 and MC1310 PLL stereo decoder.
• "Electronic Music Box with Multiple 16-tone Tunes"; counters, demultiplexers, JK flip-flops, oscillators.
• "Hi-fi Band Stereo Amplifier with 2x40W Output"; no ICs in the power output circuit, graphic equalizer with negative impedance converters, class AB output amplifier with enhanced slew rate and current compliance.
• "Electronic Timer with Automatic Exposure Calculator for B&W Photography"; analog integrator, NE555 application, SCR controlled output.

Publications:

• Journal Papers: 5
• Book Contributions: 3
• Dissertations: 2
• Conference Papers: 45
• Major Grant or Technical Reports: 4
• Tutorials: 1
• Newsletter Publications: 2
• Presentations: 4
• See also attached pages

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