Bradley J. Bazuin
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department
Western Michigan University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Office: CEAS, A-241
Phone: (269) 276-3149
Email: brad.bazuin@wmich.edu
Web: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~bazuinb/
Stanford University, Stanford, California. Class of 1989. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering. Dissertation: Totally-Implantable Biomedical Dimension Telemetry: Transducers, Pulse Width Digitization, Control, and PSK Telemetry. Advisors: James D. Meindl, currently Director of the Georgia Institute of Technology Microelectronic Research Center (MiRC).
Stanford University, Stanford, California. Class of 1982. Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. Emphasis in integrated circuit design and signal processing.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Class of 1980. Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering and Applied Science, Intensive Major in Electrical Engineering. Magna Cum Laude, Departmental Honors, Lanphier Memorial Prize for achievement in Electrical Engineering. Tau Beta Pi.
Forest Hills Northern High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Class of 1976. Valedictorian.
Western Michigan University, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, Michigan. Aug. 2001 to present, Tenure Track Appointed Assistant Professor. Instructor for: ECE 451 Microcontroller Applications, ECE 605 Advanced Microprocessor Applications, ECE 680, Design Factors in Distributed Systems, ECE 357, Computer Architecture; and ECE 650, Advanced Computer Architecture. Faculty advisor for ECE481 and ECE482 Senior Projects. Member of College Curriculum Committee, College Assessment Committee, and ECE Department Curriculum Committee. Current research topics include; software radio architecture and implementation, differential GPS for blind rehabilitation, and chaos-based communication system implementation and synchronization.
Western Michigan University, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dec. 1999 to Aug. 2001, Term Appointed Assistant Professor. Instructor for: ECE 357, Computer Architecture; ECE 371, Linear Systems; ECE 560 Time Varying Fields in Communications, ECE 650, Advanced Computer Architecture and; ECE 680, Design Factors in Distributed Systems. Faculty advisor for ECE481 and ECE482 Senior Projects. Member of ECE Department Curriculum Committee. Funded research on software radio architecture and implementation.
Radix Technologies, Inc., 329 N. Bernardo Ave., Mountain View, California. Dec. 1991 to July 2000, full time permanent. Principal Engineer. Tasks, assignments and programs have included: system engineering for multiple advanced tactical COMINT systems, spatial adaptive signal processing for interference mitigation and cochannel signal processing systems; system engineering and simulations for anti-jam GPS processing and systems, and novel signal processing for arbitrary bandwidth beamforming communications transponders and; custom ASIC developments for filter bank analysis and synthesis and a dual complex multiply-accumulate VLIW digital signal processor. Proposal author and principal investigator for a number of Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programs. Responsibilities have included system specifications, software design documents, technical description, functional partition, algorithm implementation, hardware definition, customer briefings and interfacing, program and task management with budget and schedule responsibility, and personnel management and reviews. Clearances: DoD Secret ·
ARGOSystems, Inc., 310 North Mary, Sunnyvale, California. Sept. 1989 to Dec. 1991, full time permanent. Principal Engineer. (ARGOSystems was purchased by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company during my employment.) Assignments include System Engineer for an advanced tactical COMINT system, ASD ASIC Design Center manager, ASIC IR&D Program Manager, and ASIC/Digital Design section Functional Manager. System Engineering work involves a second generation COMINT system which involves digitally channelized receivers, instantaneous direction finding, signal detection, qualification, and feature extraction, tracking of emitters based on signal parameters, and digital demodulation. Responsibilities include system specifications, functional partition, technical description, customer briefings and interfacing, and program technical oversight. ASIC design activities entail the implementation of a complex arithmetic processing, discrete-Fourier-transforms, CIC filter-interpolators and filter-decimators, eigenvalue-eigenvector processing, and the MUSIC algorithm. Responsibilities include management of design staff, review of algorithmic approaches and selection of implementation, oversight of design progress, and management of Design Center resources. Additional activities have included bid and proposal support, technical support to marketing, and technical marketing briefings for customers. ·
ARGOSystems, Inc. , 310 North Mary, Sunnyvale, California. June 1981 to Sept. 1989, part time permanent. Member of the technical staff, ASD ASIC Design Center manager and ASIC IR&D Program manager. Projects include a display controller and processor for an IDF, computer simulations of a PLL for software signal simulators, the digital controllers for two separate millimeter wave downconverter systems, a flexible dual channel CMOS gate array multiplier for use as a three chip FFT or digital processing element, a special purpose CMOS gate array minimum sum of square error processor for LOB signal processing, and consultant in residence for integrated circuit technology. ·
Stanford University, Center for Integrated Electronics in Medicine (CIEM), Biomedical Telemetry. June 1980 to Dec. 1988. Research assistant. Projects include Integrated system design for a totally implantable biomedical dimension system, integrated injector logic (I2L ) and analog bipolar chip design, CMOS gate array design, piezoelectric transducer design and fabrication, bipolar process development and characterization. Course work includes custom NMOS chip design (VMEBUS DMA controller), bipolar process monitors, adaptive filters, Kalman filters, and general communication theory. ·
Stanford University. September 1980 to March 1981. Teaching Assistant. Microcomputer laboratory for graduate students (ee281). ·
Lear Siegler, Inc. , Instrument Division, 4141 Eastern Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan (currently Smiths Industries Aerospace, 3290 Patterson Ave.). Summer 1979. Programmer's assistant in systems and simulation. Route coverage summary data collection, coverage simulation FORTRAN programming, and initial studies of using a Kalman filter in DME-DME positioning for the Performance Navigational Computer System project (PNCS).
M.Z. Atashbar, B.J. Bazuin, and S. Krishnamurthy, "Performance Evaluation of SAW Devices by Simulation", International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2004, p. 250-262.
M.Z. Atashbar, B.J. Bazuin, M. Simpeh, D. Banerji, and S. Krishnamurthy, "3-Dimensional finite-element simulation of acoustic wave propagation of SAW metallic thin film gas sensors", Eurosensors 2004, Rome, Italy, 13-15 September 2004, pp. 700-701.
M.Z. Atashbar, B.J. Bazuin, M. Simpeh, and S. Krishnamurthy, "3-D finite-element simulation model of SAW palladium thin film hydrogen sensor", 2004 IEEE International Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 50th Anniversary Joint Conference, Montreal, Canada, 23-27th August 2004.
B.J. Bazuin, M.Z. Atashbar, and S. Kirishnamurthy, "A prototype burst transceiver for SAW sensors interrogation", International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Chennai, India, 4-7th January 2004, pp. 190-195.
M.Z. Atashbar, B.J. Bazuin, and S. Kirishnamurthy, "Design and simulation of SAW sensors for wireless sensing", IEEE Sensors 2003, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 Oct. 2003, pp. 584-589.
B.J. Bazuin, M. Atashbar, and S. Krishnamurthy, "A Prototype Burst Transceiver for Smart SAW Sensors", IEEE EIT 2003 Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 5-6 June 2003.
M. Atashbar, B.J. Bazuin, and S. Krishnamurthy, "Design Steps for SAW Devices for Wireless Applications", IEEE EIT 2003 Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 5-6 June 2003. R.D. Lucio , M.J. Alberts, "The Vegita Beowulf Project", IEEE EIT 2003 Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 5-6 June 2003.
D A. Miller, B. Bazuin, D. Kerr, and G. Grassi., "Experimental Performance of a Coherent Communication System Based on Hyperchaos Synchronization", Proc. 45th IEEE MWSCAS Conf., Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 2002.
I.M. Abdel-Qader, B.J. Bazuin, S.H. Mousavinezhad and J.T. Patrick, "Real-time Digital Signal Processing in the Undergraduate Curriculum", IEEE Trans. on Education, Feb. 2003, p. 95-101.
D A. Miller, B. Bazuin, D. Kerr, and G. Grassi., "Experimental Performance of a Coherent Communication System Based on Hyperchaos Synchronization", Proc. 45th IEEE MWSCAS Conf., Tulsa, Oklahoma, Aug. 4-7, 2002.
I.M. Abdel-Qader, P.E., B.J. Bazuin, and S.H. Mousavinezhad,, "Teaching Real -Time Digital Signal Processing: Challenges and Opportunities", Proc. 2002 ASEE Annual Conf., Montreal, Canada, Jun. 2002.
B. Bazuin, G. Grassi, and D.A. Miller, "Improved LPI/LPD systems via chaos," (abstract), Defense Advanced Research Agency Scientists Helping America Conference, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., March 11-13, 2002.
B.J. Bazuin, C. Fassler, R. Schwartz, "All-Digital, Spatial Anti-Jam GPS Receivers: Architecture, Implementation, and Initial Performance Results," Proc. ION GPS-99, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 1999.
B.J. Bazuin, "Totally-Implantable Biomedical Dimension Telemetry: Transducers, Pulse Width Digitization, Control, and PSK Telemetry," Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford Electronics Laboratories, Stanford University, Stanford Calif., Aug. 1989.
B.J. Bazuin, K.K. Abadi, J.T. Walker, J.D. Meindl, "Advances in Totally Implantable Dimension Systems," Proc. IEEE-EMBS, Los Angeles, Sept. 1984.
B.J. Bazuin, K.K. Abadi, J.T. Walker, and JD Meindl, "A Broad Bandwidth Low Noise Biotelemetry Receiver," Proc. IEEE-ACEMB, Los Angeles, California, Sept. 1984.
JD Meindl, A.J. Ford Jr., R.E. Taperell, B.J. Bazuin, K. Abadi, L. Bowman, M.J. Smith, M.G. Dorman, J. Schmitt, D. Harame, L. Bousse, A. Fotowat-Ahmady, F. Shapiro, S.J. Gross, N. Midkiff, M.F. Akram, C. Gonzalez, M. Prisbe, J. Mustafa, J.M. Koepnick, R.M. Andrade, D.M. Claude, and R. Marcus, "Implantable Telemetry," in Methods of Animal Experimentation, Vol. VII, Research Surgery and Care of the Research Animal, Part A, Patient Care, Vascular Access, and Telemetry (W.I. Gay and J.E. Heavner, eds.), Academic Press, Orlando, Florida, 1986.
J.M. Koepnick, RE Taperell, B.J. Bazuin, and JD Meindl,
"Blood Flow Transducers for Implantable Telemetry Systems," Proc. 37th
Annual Conf. on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 26, Los Angeles,
Calif., 1984, p. 346.
N93-008 Phase I, co-principal investigator, awarded 11/8/93, $50k Title: Extension of Channelized Receiver Architecture to HF/VHF/UHF Tactical Receive-Only Radio. The TROR is designed for reconnaissance applications where rapid signal acquisition and set-on are required.
N93-008 Phase II, system engineer, awarded 7/8/96, $700k Title: The Digital Scanner as an HF/VHF/UHF Tactical Receive Only Radio (TROR). Development and demonstration of a flexible all-digital, software radio scanner.
AF98-157 Phase I, principal investigator, awarded 4/2/98, $100k. Title: Frequency Hopping (FH) Signal Prediction and Countermeasures. Investigate and develop techniques for detecting, identifying, tracking, predicting, and jamming Frequency Hopping (FH) signals for hosting on an existing demonstration unit.
AF98-164 Phase I, principal investigator, awarded 4/2/98, $100k. Title: All-Digital, Anti-Jam, Wide-Bandwidth, Open Architecture GPS Receiver Prototype. The receiver design will focus on a flexible, open architecture design that can be used both as a developmental tool and as a stepping stone toward new generations of high density, low-cost Anti-jam GPS receivers with the appropriate mix of capabilities.
AF98-119 Phase I, principal investigator, awarded 4/8/98, $100k. Title: Flexible All-Digital Multi-Beam Transponder for Satellite Communications. Employ all-digital receiver techniques for flexible satellite transponders. Specific processing includes algorithm and architecture definition for; wide band uniform filter band analysis, partial band synthesis, adaptive beamforming, baseband processing, inverse beam steering, partial band analysis, and wide band uniform filter bank synthesis.
AF98-119 Phase II, system engineer, awarded 6/15/99, $750k. Title: Flexible All-Digital Multi-Beam Transponder for Satellite Communications. Employ all-digital receiver techniques for flexible satellite transponders. Develops a demonstration system for the digital receiving and beamforming electronics of an all-digital multi-beam transponder (ADST), which will augment the existing AFRL/SNHA DBF test system by adding additional digital channelization, partial bandwidth synthesis, and digital beamforming capabilities.
N99-189 Phase I, system engineer, awarded 3/1/00, $100k. Title: GIANT Simulation of Adaptive Beamforming and Null Steering Algorithm for JPALS. .
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