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For each of the six undergraduate
researchers participating
in SUPERB, we have a graduate student who is working with the Chess
center in some way. The mentors for the summer 2005 Chess SUPERB
Program are:
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Alessandro Abate
| Alessandro
Abate is a PhD student at the
University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, working with Prof.
S. Shankar Sastry. This is his first summer to serve as Mentor
for a Chess SUPERB student, and he is working with Shams
Karimkhan.
He was born in Milan,
in April 1978, he grew up in Padova (Italy). In July 1997,
he graduated from the Scientific “Liceo” E. Curiel
(Padova), with the final grade of 60/60, cum laude.
He studied at the University of Padova, earning the “Laurea” Degree
in Electrical Engineering. He spent one year, as a visiting student,
at the EECS Department of the University of California, at Berkeley
(USA), and six months at the Rheinishe Westfaelishe Technische
Hochschule, in Aachen (Germany). He graduated in October 2002,
with final grade
110/110, summa cum laude. He was accepted in the graduate school at UC Berkeley, and got
an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in May
2004.
Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at
UC Berkeley, as a Graduate Student Researcher on Control and
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Aaron D. Ames
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D. Ames is a PhD candidate at the
University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, working with Prof.
S. Shankar Sastry. In 2004, he served as a Chess SUPERB Mentor,
and this summer he is working with Bobby
Gregg.
His main area of research is hybrid systems--specifically, developing
a mathematical theory of hybrid systems which allows for a better
understanding of phenomena unique to hybrid systems, e.g., Zeno.
Other areas of interest include dynamical systems and nonlinear
control theory.
Aaron is the recipient of the 2005 Leon E. Chua Award from UC
Berkeley EECS Department, for outstanding achievement in an area
of nonlinear science. In 2001, he received a BS in Mechanical Engineering
and
a BA in
Mathematics
from the
University
of St.
Thomas. |
Parvez Ahammad
| Parvez
Ahammad is a third year PhD student
at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, working with Prof.
S. Shankar Sastry. This is his first summer to serve as Mentor
for a Chess SUPERB student, and he is working with Lana
Carnel.
His current research interests are in the areas of Computer Vision
and Image Processing. In the Spring 2005, he was GSI (Graduate
Student Instructor) for the Image Processing and Reconstruction
Tomography class.
He received his M.S. in Computer Science from
UC Berkeley in Spring 2005, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering
from University of Central Florida, in
2002. In 1998, he received his B.E., First Class with Distinction,
in Electronics and Communication from Osmania University, Hyderabad,
India.
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Alessandro Pinto
| Alessandro
Pinto is a PhD student at the
University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, working with Prof.
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.
This is his first summer to serve as Mentor for a Chess
SUPERB student, and he is working with Rey
Romero.
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Yang Zhao (okay, not her real picture...)
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Zhao is a PhD student at the
University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, working with Prof.
Edward A. Lee. In 2003, she served as Mentor for two Chess
SUPERB students, and this summer she is working with Murphy
Gant.
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Haiyang Zheng
| Haiyang Zheng is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences, working with Prof. Edward
A. Lee. This is
his first summer to serve as Mentor for a Chess SUPERB student,
and he is working with Simon Ng.
His research interests involve the theory, modeling, and simulation
of discrete-event and hybrid systems, and he has been intimately involved in the development
and usage of the HyVisual modeling language, which is a subset
of the Ptolemy II framework. His other interests include synchronous languages and real-time systems.
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Behind the students are the faculty and staff representatives
of CHESS, who are working to keep the program moving forward in terms
of research.
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Prof. S. Shankar Sastry
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S. Shankar Sastry is the Directory of the Center
for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
(CITRIS), in the University of California, and is NEC Distinguished
Professor, and former Chairman, in the Department of Electrical
Engineering
and Computer
Sciences
at Berkeley (2001-04). In 2000-01, he was Director of the Information
Technology Office (now divided into IXO and IPTO) at DARPA. He
is one of the directors of the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software
Systems (Chess) at UC Berkeley.
His
areas of research are networked, embedded and autonomous software,
computer
vision,
control
of adaptive,
nonlinear and hybrid systems. He has coauthored over 350 technical
papers and 9 books.
Dr. Sastry was elected into the National Academy of Engineering
in 2001 "for pioneering contributions to the design of hybrid
and embedded systems." He was elected to the American Academy
of Arts & Sciences (AAAS) in 2004. He also received the President
of India Gold Medal in 1977, the IBM Faculty Development award
for 1983-1985, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in
1985 and the Eckman Award of the of the American Automatic Control
Council in 1990, an M. A. (honoris causa) from Harvard in 1994,
Fellow of the IEEE in 1994, the distinguished Alumnus Award of
the Indian Institute of Technology in 1999, and the David Marr
prize for the best paper at the International Conference in Computer
Vision in 1999.
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Prof. Edward A. Lee
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Edward A. Lee is a Professor, Chair
of the Electrical Engineering (EE) Division and Associate Chair
of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department
at UC Berkeley. His research interests center on design, modeling,
and simulation of embedded, real-time computational systems. He
is a director of Chess, the Berkeley Center for Hybrid and Embedded
Software Systems, and is the director of the Berkeley Ptolemy project.
In 2003, Prof. Lee was the faculty advisor for the Chess SUPERB
students.
He is co-author of five books and numerous papers. His bachelors
degree (B.S.) is from Yale University (1979), his masters (S.M.)
from MIT (1981), and his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley (1986). From
1979 to 1982 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Telephone
Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the Advanced Data Communications
Laboratory. He is a co-founder of BDTI, Inc., where he is currently
a Senior Technical Advisor, and has consulted for a number of
other companies.
Prof. Lee is a Fellow of the IEEE, was an NSF Presidential
Young Investigator, and won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman
Award
for Engineering Education.
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Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle
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Jonathan Sprinkle is a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of California, Berkeley since 2003. His research interests
and experience are in systems control and engineering, through
modeling and metamodeling. In 2004, he was the faculty advisor
for the Chess SUPERB students, and mentor to one SUPERB
student.
Dr. Sprinkle is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (PhD, MS)
and Tennessee Technological University (BSEE). In 2005, Dr. Sprinkle
was selected as one of 108 Regional Finalists for 11-19 highly
competitive positions of White House Fellow. In
2002-2003, he was named a Master Teaching Fellow by the Vanderbilt
University Center for Teaching. In 2002 he participated in the
52nd Meeting of the Nobel Laureates. As an undergraduate, in 1998-99,
he served as the President of the Student Government Association.
In 1997-98 he was honored as Campus Leader of the Year and Legislator
of the Year by the SGA of Tennessee Tech University.
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