Assistant Signal Processing

Danh Q. Luu

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Medford, MA *****

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617-***-****

SKILLS: Proficient in C/C++ in Linux and Windows Environments. Have

extensive background in MATLAB especially for digital signal processing

algorithm development and simulation.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Software and Firmware Work

. Worked with hardware vendor to specify and procure digital hardware to

demonstrate algorithms such as directional estimation and beamforming to

our sponsors.

. Responsible for developing the software (C/C++) and firmware (VHDL) for

our hardware (typically consisting of A/D converters connected to Xilinx

FPGAs which is connected to a PC or an embedded processor) to demonstrate

various aspects of digital beamforming and directional estimation.

. Other software responsibility includes working with our scientists to

develop a C program to tile polyomino of various shapes.

Basic Research and Algorithm Development

. Developed and modeled an innovative antenna array architecture for

wideband RADAR (see [1] below)

. Analyzed and simulated numerous digital signal processing algorithms for

array processing.

. Algorithms considered include MUSIC and related for directional

estimation, I/Q decomposition, sophisticated subbanding filter, adaptive

beamforming, and low computational complexity fractional sampling delay

filter to delay sampled data by fractional of the sampling period.

. Analyzed and simulated behaviors of the algorithms above using MATLAB.

Program Management

. Served as the program manager for multiple $850K SBIR programs.

. Programs that I managed include "Directional Estimation for Wideband

Sources", "Signal Processing to Counter Jamming", and "Waveform

Generation for MIMO RADAR."

. Worked with companies to develop algorithms and build hardware prototypes

to demonstrate key concepts.

Teaching Assistant

. Served as the head teaching assistant at Tufts.

. Coordinated and run the lab portion of the circuit theory class with 170

students.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

8/2002-3/2010 Electronic Engineer Air Force Research Lab,

Antenna Technology Branch, Hanscom, MA

9/2000-5/2002 Teaching Assistant Tufts University, Medford, MA

EDUCATION

MIT Advanced Study Program, Cambridge, MA, Completed course 6.867 Machine

Learning, Fall 2007

MS, Electrical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2002, GPA 3.9

out of 4.0

BS, Magna Cum Laude, Computer Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA,

2000

PUBLICATIONS

[1] D. Luu, "The Multi-Lens Array Architecture", 2006 Antenna Applications

Symposium Proceedings, Monticello, Illinois, 20 Sept. 2006, p. 429-454

[2] D. D. Curtis, D. Spendley, D. Q. Luu, "Current Capabilities of Digital

Beamforming", 2007 Antenna Applications Symposium, Monticello, Illinois, 17-

20 Sept. 2007.

[3] R. J. Mailloux, S. G. Santarelli, T. M. Roberts, and D. Luu,

"Irregular Polyomino-Shaped Subarrays for Space-Based Active Arrays",

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation Volume 2009 (2009),

Article ID 956524, 9 pages

([1] & [2] can be obtained from www.dtic.mil - search for paper title. [3]

can be obtained from http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/2009/956524.html)

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