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EXPERTLY ORCHESTRATED GENIUS

Resume of USE, Ph.D.

Consultant

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED

  • Automotive
  • Computer
  • Communications
  • Defense
  • Diesel-Electric
  • Electronics
  • Government
  • Manufacturing

EDUCATION

This expert has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami.

This expert received a Diplom Ingenieur in Electrical Engineering, Tech. University in Munich, West Germany.


EXPERTISE AND SERVICES

Electrical, Data Communication Network, Diesel-Electric, Expert Consultant

This expert specializes in autonomous swarm systems and mobile sensor networks, systems theory, stability theory of time-variant and nonlinear systems, and m-D systems. Further expertise includes digital control and signal processing (hardware implementations and algorithms), congestion control, and resource management in sensor systems / networks. Other related areas of expertise include wireless sensor networks, information fusion networks, and network synchronization.

This consultant offers additional specialization and expertise in Hybrid Electric Drive Trains in areas including diesel and gas engine management, battery and ultra-capacitor energy storage systems, power management, and electric motors and controllers. Further specialties include conventional drive train analysis/design, drive cycle and performance simulations, fuel economy optimization, and design of senior level class "Hybrid and Hybrid Electric Vehicles."

As co-founder of a company concentrating on "Series Hybrid Drive Systems" using Turbo-Diesel engines, this consultant offers additional expertise in the area of Hybrid Electric Drive Trains. Additionally, this expert designed a complete "Diesel Series Hybrid" powertrain system for a midsize 4WD vehicle, and is familiar with commercial products and cost analysis.

Research interests include distributed sensor/actuator networks, network and congestion control, synchronization, evidential reasoning, and digital control and signal processing. Further interests include stability theory, multi-dimensional systems, vehicle control, hybrid electric drive trains, and new propulsion technologies.

Other areas of emphasis include nonlinear phenomena in multi-dimensional digital filters, and camera model validation for 3-D computer vision.

This expert has extensive knowledge regarding robust stability, digital filters, data communication networks, stability and oscillation of nonlinear control systems, and ATM networks. Other knowledge encompasses environmental and industrial sensing, the electric car, control and dynamic systems, circuits and filters.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Providing expertise in electrical engineering, data communication networks, digital control and signal processing, research, sensor systems / networks consulting, network synchronization, hybrid electric drive trains, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

Professor, major university

Visiting Professor, University of Miami, FL

Professor, Notre Dame London Center, London, England

Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame

Visiting Professor, Tech. University Munich, Germany

Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Adjunct faculty member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami

Teaching assistantship, University of Miami

Research assistant, University of Miami

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Practical work period, Central Development Laboratory of Siemens, Munich, West Germany

Practical work period, MBB (Messerschmidt-Boelkow-Blohm), division for hardware development, Munich, West Germany

Practical work period, the high voltage test laboratory, Wieland, Bamberg, West Germany

Faculty Co-advisor for the Notre Dame Racing Team. National Champions for the Electric Formula Lightning Grand Prix in Cleveland, OH


PUBLICATIONS

This expert is the author and co-author of more than 150 technical papers on topics related to congestion control, ATM networks, signal processing, networked circuits and systems, sensors, synchronization, environmental and industrial sensing, the electric car, control and dynamic systems, filters, and more.

This expert has participated in many presentations on topics related to digital filters, networked systems, nonlinear control systems, and more.


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