Education

• Incoming PhD, Electrical Engineering (Emphasis: Embedded Computing Systems), Projected Class: 2011 
• Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (Emphasis: Embedded Computing Systems), UCLA, Class of 2008
• Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering/Computer Science, University of Southern California, Class of 2006
• Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, University of Southern California, Class of 2006
• London School of Economics Summer Management School, Summer 2008

GSA Experience

Associated Students University of California, Los Angeles (ASUCLA) Communications Board, 2006-present (GSA Stipended Appointment)
Chairman (2007-present):

• Created "Publication Start-Up Initiative" to allow new publication ideas to be supported by ASUCLA Student Media in online and/or print form.
• Co-Created "Newsmagazine Revitalization Plan" that illustrated a School of Alternative and Community Journalism which would develop skills of community journalism for students through seminars, workshops, community affiliates, and advisement.
• Created and founded "ASUCLA Communications Board Newsmagazine Editor of the Year Award" and annually present it at the year-end UCLA student media banquet.     
• Selected as 1 of 4 graduate students to serve on the board to help manage/oversee the macroscopic operations of UCLA Student Media, including the Daily Bruin, UCLA Radio, Daily Bruin Television, and the 7 leagacy student publications.

Graduate Students Association (GSA) Judicial Review Board (JRB), 2006-2007
Chairman:

• Served as chairman of the inaugural board to serve as the primary entity to oversee and deliberate student grievances with reference to the functionality and operations of GSA.  
• Helped configure and recreate section 11 of GSA Codes pertaining to grievance procedures

UCLA Academic Senate Graduate Council, 2007-present (GSA Appointment)
Graduate Student Represenative:

• Selected as 1 of 4 GSA members responsible for making policy for graduate education at UCLA by periodically reviewing and evaluating all programs of study
• Reviewing all aspects of graduate study at UCLA including: student diversity, study abroad programs, and admissions criteria.

UCLA Academic Senate Committee for Degree Programs, 2007-Present (GSA Appointment)
Graduate Student Representative:

• Reviewing proposals of new graduate programs leading to joint existing degrees as well as new programs leading to graduate level certificates.
• Personally Reviewed/Reviewing programs for Physics & Astronomy, Economics, Chicano Studies, Applied Linguistics, and World Arts and Cultures

Graduate Students Association (GSA) Engineering Graduate Orientation Committee, Summer 2007
Campus Tour Guide:

• Led 1 general tour and 1 specialized tour in order to properly introduce students and parents to the UCLA campus and to orient students of environment and buildings of respective departments, basic UCLA landmarks, and other highlights particular to the different campus areas.

Engineering Department Leadership

CENS Actuation Sensing and Coordinated Embedded Networked
Technologies (ASCENT) Laboratory, 2006-Present
Graduate Student Researcher:

• Designing and developing Electrocardiogram (ECG) classification algorithms for MicroLEAP embedded platform
• Designing Wireless Telehealth Kiosk interfaced with SMART Cane serving as a gateway for activity monitoring of elederly patients, children and adults. Funded by Microsoft Corporation.

Engineering Graduate Students Association (EGSA), 2007-Present
Public Information Officer:

• Responsible for public relations and outreach programs, services and activities related to and designed for graduate engineering student body.
• Help organize EGSA quarterly socials and townhall meetings.

UCLA HSSEAS Electrical Engineering Department, Fall 2007
Teaching Assistant:

• Leading laboratory section for Systems Design course EE 180D, configuring and overseeing final course projects in Telehealth area, primarily topics involving localization, activity monitoring, behavior detection and classification, feedack control, and safety promotion of the embedded networked SMART Cane.
• Received overall TA Evaluation of 8.2 out of 9.

UCLA Center for Excellence in Engineering & Diversity (CEED) Bridge Review for Enhancing Engineering Students (BREES) Program
Course Instructor:

• Taught bridge review courses to prepare third year undergraduate students for Introduction to Circuit Analysis I & II, and Logic Design of Digital Systems.
• Lectured courses of 12-15 students, and single-handedly created syllabus, curriculum, lecture notes, homework, and in-class assignments and exams.

UCLA Center for Excellence in Engineering & Diversity (CEED) Science Mathematics And Research Technology Students (SMARTS) Program
Graduate Research Mentor:

• Taught 2 high school students, as part of the research component of the SMARTS program, the fundamental principles of wireless sensor networks primarily: hardware configuration, sensing and actuation, efficient programming and wireless communication.
• Designed curriculum based on creating robotic devices using the Lego Mindstorms NXT kit.

UCLA Center for Excellence in Engineering & Diversity (CEED) Introduction to Engineering Disciplines Program
Project Advisor:

• Led the development of the E 87 final course project, an inference-based algorithm for obstacle detection and localization of the embedded networked SMART Cane, in the area of Telehealth.
• Mentored, guided, and taught 5 freshman engineering students in E 87 during their completion of this project.

University Wide Organization Leadership

Bruin Research And Technology (BRAT) Magazine, 2007-Present
Founder and Editor-In-Chief:

• Created and founded only the 8th ASUCLA Student Media supported print newsmagazine in 89 year history of the university.
• Magazine is designed to promote the consistent cutting edge research and technology breakthroughs at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering And Applied Science, as well as educate non-technical students on campus and the greater student body of the social, economic, and philanthropic significance and relevance of technology.

Bruin Leaders Project (BLP)
Student:

• Participating in UCLA's nationally renowned campus-sponsored leadership development program.
• Completed 10 hands-on interactive seminars focusing on various aspects of leadership and to make its participants better students, better leaders and better citizens.
• Participating in Project BRITE UCLA as community service component of program.
  

Project Bruins Reforming Incarceration Through Education (BRITE), 2007-Present
Community Service Participant:

• Tutoring and Mentoring juvenile delinquent at Camp Kilpatrick once a week, and helping this individual turn his life around.
• Creating curriculum focused around individuals' educational goals after being released from detention center.