Curriculum Vita
Dan
Simon, PhD
Cleveland State University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2121 Euclid Avenue, SH 332
Cleveland, Ohio, 44115
Background
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Work experience 1983-1999 in the aerospace,
automotive, biomedical, software, and process control industries.
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Academic teaching/research experience 1999-present.
Skills
and Research Interests
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Control Theory, Signal Processing, Computer
Intelligence, and Embedded Systems
Education
Experience
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2008 -
present
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Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Responsibilities include teaching courses in control theory, signal
processing, computer intelligence, and related topics. Also responsible for
supervising graduate students, establishing joint ventures with government
and industry, writing proposals and grant requests, conducting independent
research, and publishing research results.
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2003 -
2008
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Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
Associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
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1999 -
2003
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Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
Assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
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1998 -
present
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Innovatia Software
Copley, Ohio
Presently working as an independent consultant specializing in software
engineering and the technologies listed above. Also taught electrical
engineering and computer programming courses as an adjunct professor at the
University of Akron.
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1997 -
1998
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Factory Automation, Control, and Technical Services (FACTS)
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Designed and developed multi-threaded process control software using
object-oriented methodologies and Borland C++ Builder.
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1997
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Instrumentation Metrics
Tempe, Arizona
Designed and developed Windows-based software for noninvasive blood sugar
monitoring. Software included motor control and data acquisition. Software
tools included LabView and Test Point.
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1996 -
1997
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Satloc Precision GPS Applications
Tempe, Arizona
Designed and developed a Kalman filter for position, velocity, and attitude
estimation for agricultural vehicles. Developed an autopilot for steering
crop dusting airplanes, and a servo system for automatically steering
land-based farm vehicles.
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1994 -
1996
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TRW Vehicle Safety Systems
Mesa, Arizona
Developed software tools for automotive air bag test and analysis. Designed
and built a real-time windows-based data acquisition and analysis system for
air bag testing, a neural network for test data analysis, and various signal
processing and filtering routines. Chaired TRW’s Data Acquisition Committee
for international standardization of data acquisition systems. Primary
development tool was Visual Basic.
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1991 -
1994
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TRW Systems Integration Group
San Bernardino, California
Developed the theory and software for an Extended Kalman filter which combined
a missile’s Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data with Global Positioning
System (GPS) data for real-time missile navigation. Translated navigation
requirements into GPS antenna and receiver requirements. Designed advanced
Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) filters for GPS receiver design, including hybrid
Kalman / H-infinity filters and fuzzy filters. Formulated a fault-tolerant
neural network for optimal GPS satellite selection. Developed a
software-based simulation of the missile range measurements by ground-based
radar and GPS. Designed a classical controller for an antenna pointing system
for the rail-based Peacekeeper missile.
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1988 -
1991
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Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
Courses taught and assisted include Analog Circuits, Control Theory,
Robotics, Signals & Systems, and System Identification.
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1983 -
1988
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Boeing Aerospace
Seattle, Washington
Designed and tested the real-time flight software for the Inertial Upper Stage
(IUS) spacecraft. Wrote and tested Guidance, Navigation, Attitude Control,
Telemetry, and Command Processing software. Collected and analyzed timing
data for the flight software. Supervised the design of the uplink command
formatting software.
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Publications,
Memberships, and Awards
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Author of the text Optimal
State Estimation (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)
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Over 60 refereed journal and conference
publications -
see Publications Page for details
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CSU Faculty Merit Recognition Award, May 2007
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Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Member of Eta Kappa Nu (www.hkn.org)
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Reviewer of many books and technical papers
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Received Boeing
Aerospace’s Team Achievement Award in 1984 for “Outstanding Contribution to the
Inertial Upper Stage Program”
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Received Syracuse
University’s Graduate Fellowship (the only one in the Electrical
Engineering Department) for the 1990-91 academic year.
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Honorable Mention in the 1990 Student Paper
Competition of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
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Received TRW’s
Key Award in 1993 for “Outstanding Independent Research and Development
Contributions”
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Program Committee Member
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1996 IEEE Conference on Control Applications
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1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2006 North American
Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS)
Conference
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2007 - 2009 American Control Conference
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Associate Editor, 2005 - 2009 American Control
Conference
Professor Simon’s Home Page
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Cleveland State University
Last Revised: December 2, 2008