Mechanical Engineering Engineer
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
JEFF MOEHLIS
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering II Building, Room 2350
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070
E-mail: abo1bm@r.postjobfree.com
http://www.me.ucsb.edu/~moehlis
Phone: 805-***-****
Degrees
Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, May 2000
B.S. Physics and Mathematics, Iowa State University, May 1993
Dissertation
\Forced Symmetry-Breaking as a Mechanism for Bursting"
Edgar Knobloch, Chair
Examination Fields: Bifurcation Theory, Hydrodynamic Stability
Awards and Honors
Participant, National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering,
2009
Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science, 2008
Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award at UCSB, 2008
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2006-2011
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, 2005-2007
University of California at Santa Barbara Regents' Junior Faculty Fellow-
ship, 2004-2005
National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship, Princeton University, 2000-2003
Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics for Outstanding
Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-2000Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic In-
stitution, Summer 1999
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California,
Berkeley, 1994-1995
Highest Graduating Senior in Physics, Iowa State University, 1993
B.S. awarded With Distinction, With Honors, Iowa State University, 1993
Phi Beta Kappa, elected 1992
Marian Daniells Mathematics Scholarship, Iowa State University 1989-1992
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Professional Experience
Vice Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Califor-
nia, Santa Barbara, Fall 2008-present
.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California,
Santa Barbara, Fall 2011-present
.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2007-Spring 2011
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2003-Spring 2007
Consultant for HRL Laboratories, Summer 2010-present
Visiting Research Associate, Department of Engineering Mathematics, Uni-
versity of Bristol, England, Fall 2007
Visiting Researcher, Fachbereich Physik der Philipps-Universit at Marburg,
Summer 2003
Visiting Research Fellow, Program in Applied and Computational Mathe-
matics, Princeton University, Fall 2000 - Spring 2003
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics, University of California, Berke-
ley, Fall 1993 - Spring 2000Graduate Students Advised
Current Students
Ali Nabi, PhD student. Research topic: Controlling neurons
Michael Busch, PhD student. Research topic: Social networks
Louis Van Blarigan, PhD student. Research topic: Vibrational energy har-
vesters
Brian Paden, MS student. Research topic: Optimal control
Former Students
Margot Kimura, PhD received Summer 2011: Collective decision making
(MS received Summer 2007: Novel vehicular trajectories for collective
motion from coupled oscillator steering control). Currently at Sandia
National Laboratory.
Per Danzl, PhD received Spring 2010: Dynamical characterization and feed-
back control of oscillatory neural systems. Received Best PhD Thesis
Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB. Currently Con-
trols Engineer at Eaton Corporation.
Lina Kim, PhD received Summer 2009: Characterizing the edge of chaos
for shear flows. (MS received Summer 2005: Transient Growth for
a Sinusoidal Shear Flow Model). Currently Lecturer, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, UCSB.
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Barry DeMartini, PhD received Summer 2008 (co-advised with Kimberly
Turner): Development of nonlinear and coupled microelectromechani-
cal oscillators for sensing applications. Currently Semiconductor Fab
Process Engineer at Agilent Technologies.
Allison Kolpas, PhD received Spring 2008: Coarse-grained analysis of col-
lective motion in animal groups. Faculty in Department of Mathemat-
ics, West Chester University.
Joseph Durham, MS received Summer 2007: Controlling canards using
ideas from the theory of mixed-mode oscillations. Currently a PhD
student with Francesco Bullo at UCSB.
Michael Schaus, MS received Summer 2005: Neural oscillator identification
via phase-locking behavior. Currently Product Development Engineer
at Starfire Industries.
Postdoctoral Scholars Advised
Gabor Orosz (Fall 2008-Summer 2010). Research topics: tra c dynamics,
coupled oscillators. Faculty in Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan
.
Undergraduate Research Projects Advised
Lijuan (Lily) Li (Fall 2011 - present): Finite element analysis of vibrational
energy harvester
Keith Allen (Fall 2011 - present): Vibrational energy harvester
Ramzi Deek (Summer 2011, visitor from American University of Beirut):
Controlling neurons
Tapiwa Maruni (Summer 2011, visitor from Florida A&M University): In-
formation propagation through networks
Louis Van Blarigan (Summer 2010-Summer 2011): Vibrational energy har-
vesting.
Tomasz Jagoda (Fall 2008-Winter 2009): Computational analysis of a ter-
ritorial model.
Ashley Zavagno (Winter 2009-Summer 2009): Territorial behavior of in-
sects.
Suzanne Iwanicki (Summer 2008-Summer 2009): Territorial behavior of
insects.
Jess Theilmann (Fall Quarter 2006-Winter Quarter 2007): Response of
neural oscillator populations to sinusoidal inputs.
Ronald Votel (Summer Quarter 2005-Summer 2006): Computational anal-
ysis of a territorial model.
Robert Hansen (Winter Quarter 2005-Summer 2006): Response of oscillator
populations to Poisson inputs.
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Thesis/Dissertation Committees
Zi Yie (PhD 2012, Advisor: Kimberly Turner)
Anahita Mirtabatabaei (PhD in progress, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)
Blane Rhoads (PhD in progress, Advisor: Igor Mezi c)
Chris Burgner (PhD 2012, Advisor: Kimberly Turner)
Jamilah Abdur-Rahim (PhD in progress, Advisor: Linda Petzold)
Peter Burns (PhD in progress, Advisor: Eckart Meiburg)
Gunjan Thakur (PhD 2012, Advisor: Igor Mezi c)
Marko Budi si c (PhD in progress, Advisor: Igor Mezi c)
Sandra Dandach: Distributed Decision Making (PhD 2011, Advisor: Francesco
Bullo)
Vaibhav Srivastava (PhD in progress, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)
Florian Dorfler (PhD in progress, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)
Patrick Shepherd (PhD in progress, Advisor: Mustafa Khammash)
Guilia Piovan (MS 2010, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)
Joey Durham: Distributed Coordination Algorithms for Teams of Robots
(PhD 2011, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)
Nikita Agarwal: Coupled cell networks - Interplay between architecture &
dynamics (PhD 2011, Advisor: Michael Field, University of Houston)
Karl Obermeyer: Visibility problems for sensor networks and UAVs (PhD
2010, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)
George Gilmore: The global resonance apparatus (MS 2009, Advisor: Igor
Mezi c)
Shaunak D. Bopardikar: Pursuit strategies for autonomous vehicles (PhD
2009, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)
Bryan Eisenhower: Targeted escape in large oscillator networks (PhD 2009,
Advisor: Igor Mezi c)
Jagpal Gill (MS 2009, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Sophie Loire: Manipulation of microsize to nanosize particles with AC elec-
trokinetic forces (PhD 2008, Advisor: Igor Mezi c)
Brian Munsky: The finite state projection for the solution of the master
equation and its applications to stochastic gene regulatory networks
(PhD 2008, Advisor: Mustafa Khammash)
Antoine du Ch en e: Second-order accurate computation of curvatures in a
level set framework using novel high-order reinitialization schemes (MS
2007, Advisor: Frederic Gibou)
Vikram Siddavaram: The effects of gravity modulation on fluid mixing
(PhD 2007, Advisor: Bud Homsy)
Zoran Levnaji c: Ergodic theory in discrete dynamical systems (MS 2005,
Advisor: Igor Mezic)
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Chandrasekhar Samiappan: Maglev apparatus for artificial hearts (MS
2005, Advisor: Brad Paden)
Funding
2011-2012: (co-PI) The Dynamics of Competing Ideas on Networks, Insti-
tute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, Institute for Collaborate Biotech-
nologies, $50,000 (out of $100,000 total); co-PI: Ambuj Singh.
2011-2014: (PI) Broadband Vibrational Energy Harvesting, National Sci-
ence Foundation, $322,468.
2010-2011: (PI) Vibrational Energy Harvesters: Design and Validation
Testing, Council on Research and Instructional Resources Faculty Re-
search Grant, UCSB, $5,000.
2010-2013: (PI) Controlling Populations of Neurons, National Science Foun-
dation, $450,000
2010-2011: Bio-inspired Information Propagation in Complex Networks,
Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, $100,000
2009-2010: (co-PI) Instructional Improvement Grant, UCSB, $18,453.30;
co-PI: Linda Petzold
2007-2009: (PI) A Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Study of Ter-
ritorial Behavior, Council on Research and Instructional Resources Fac-
ulty Research Grant, UCSB, $8,000.
2007-2010: (co-PI) Bio-inspired Stochastic Search and Decision Making for
Robotic Networks, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, $448,600;
co-PI: Francesco Bullo
2006-2011: (PI) Dynamics of Individual and Coupled Oscillators, National
Science Foundation CAREER Award, $400,000
2005-2007: (PI) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, $45,000
2005-2006: (PI) Partial Synchronization due to Random Inputs, Council on
Research and Instructional Resources Faculty Research Grant, UCSB,
$4,800
2004-2008: (PI) Equation-Free Modeling of Biological Self-Organization:
Coarse Computational Swarming, National Science Foundation, $230,000
(out of $720,000 total); co-PIs: Daniel Gr unbaum (Washington), Yan-
nis Kevrekidis (Princeton), Simon Levin (Princeton)
2004-2007: (co-PI) Dynamics of Microbeam Sensor Arrays, National Sci-
ence Foundation, $400,000; PI: Kimberly Turner (UCSB), other co-PI:
Steven Shaw (Michigan State)
2004-2005: (PI) UCSB Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, UCSB $7544
2003-2004: (PI) UCSB Junior Faculty Research Incentive Award, UCSB
$5000
Teaching Experience
Instructor
Engineering 3, Introduction to Programming, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall
2011, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mechanical Engineering 17, Mathematics of Engineering, Spring 2004, Spring
2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Mechanical Engineering 215A, Applied Dynamical Systems I, Fall 2004, Fall
2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Mechanical Engineering 215B, Applied Dynamical Systems II, Winter 2005,
Winter 2006, Winter 2007, Winter 2009, Spring 2012, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Mechanical Engineering 225BC, Introduction to Low-dimensional Model-
ing, Winter 2004, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mechanical Engineering 225DS, Dynamical Systems with Symmetry, Win-
ter 2008, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Co-instructor/Course Teaching Assistant:
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics/Ecology and Evolu-
tionary Biology/Molecular Biology 514, Biological Dynamics, Fall 2002,
Princeton University.
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics 591, Special Topics
in Biological Dynamics, Fall 2001, Princeton University.
Substitute/Guest Lectures:
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Geography 288, Complexity and Emergence, Winter 2005, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics 571, Applied Dynam-
ical Systems, Fall 2000, Fall 2002, Princeton University.
Physics 205B, Advanced Dynamics, Spring 2000, University of California,
Berkeley.
Graduate Student Instructor (at University of California, Berkeley):
Physics 7A, Physics for Scientists and Engineers I, Spring 1994, Spring
1995, Summer 1995.
Physics 7B, Physics for Scientists and Engineers II, Fall 1994.
Physics 7C, Physics for Scientists and Engineers III, Fall 1993, Fall 1995.
Physics 8A, Introductory Physics I, Summer 1994.
Physics 105, Analytic Mechanics, Spring 1996.
Physics 137A, Quantum Mechanics I, Fall 1996, Summer 1997.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California,
Berkeley, 1994-1995
Professional Activities
Member of Editorial Committee,Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Sys-
tems - Series S, 2007 - 2010
Panel member for National Science Foundation Civil and Mechanical Sys-
tems Division, 2005, 2006
Panel member for National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechan-
ical and Manufacturing Innovation, 2008, 2009, 2010
Book reviewer for McGraw-Hill, Cambridge University Press
Member
{ Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
{ American Society of Mechanical Engineers
{ American Physical Society
University Service (all at UCSB)
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Vice Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2008-present.
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Fall 2008-present.
Member of Merits and Promotions Committee, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Fall 2011-present.
Member of Planning Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Fall 2009-present.
Member of Local Work Team - UC Campus Climate Assessment, Fall 2011-
present.
Member of Ad Hoc Selection Committee for Tirrell Award for Distinction
in Undergraduate Research, Spring 2010.
Member of Selection Committee for Center for Control, Dynamical Systems,
and Computation Best PhD Dissertation Award, Winter 2010.
Reviewer for Capstone Design Projects, Department of Mechanical Engi-
neering, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.
Panelist for School for Scientific Thought Course Faculty Discussion Panel,
CNSI Education Program, Spring 2009.
Organizer of Department of Mechanical Engineering Departmental Collo-
quium, Spring 2008.
Member of Selection Committee for Best PhD Award, Department of Me-
chanical Engineering, Winter 2008.
Organizer of Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation
Seminar Series, Spring 2007, Winter 2009.
Member Graduate Committee, 2003-2008.
Member Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Faculty and Staff Housing,
2005-present
Coordinator for Programs in Dynamical Systems, Center for Control, Dy-
namical Systems, and Computation, 2005-2010
Organizer of Department of Mechanical Engineering 2005 Convocation.
Presentations
Talks y= invited
y\Group decision-making models for sequential tasks," Statistics and Ap-
plied Probability Department Seminar, University of California, Santa
Barbara, May 30, 2012.
y(Keynote) \Spontaneous order in natural and engineered systems," Ma-
terials Research Laboratory Science Teacher Workshop, University of
California, Santa Barbara, March 16, 2012.
\An energy harvester for broadband vibrations," IUTAM Symposium on
50 Years of Chaos,
Kyoto, Japan, November 28 - December 2, 2011
.
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\Controlling neurons," International Congress of Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (
ICIAM), Vancouver, Canada, July 18-22, 2011.
\Dynamics-enabled quartz reference oscillators," with David Chang and
Chip Moyer, MesoDynamics Architectures Kickoff/DEFYS Program
Review Meeting, Jekyll Island, Georgia, July 6-8, 2011.
y\A dynamical systems analysis of territorial behavior," SIAM Conference
on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 22-26,
2011.
y\Controlling neurons," Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Com-
putation Seminar, University of California at Santa Barbara, May 6,
2011.
y\Controlling neurons," Networks Seminar, University of Houston, March
25, 2011.
y\Controlling neurons," Interdisciplinary Serminar in Nonlinear Science,
Northwestern University, January 3, 2011.
y\Controlling neurons," Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
seminar, University of Washington, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1,
2010.
y\Controlling populations of neurons," SIAM Conference on the Life Sci-
ences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 12-15, 2010.
y\Controlling neurons," 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and
Applied Mechanics, State College, Pennsylvania, June 27-July 2, 2010.
\Exploiting nonlinearity to provide broadband energy harvesting," 2009
ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, Califor-
nia, October 12-14, 2009.
y\Controlling neurons," Seminar,Ecole sup erieure d' electricit e, Paris, France,
July 20, 2009.
y\Coarse-grained analysis of collective motion," Seminar, PMMH-ESPCI,
Paris, France, July 17, 2009.
y\Controlling neurons," Workshop on Modeling, Estimation, and Control
th
in Neuroscience at the 47 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, December 8, 2008.
\On the dynamics of coupled parametrically forced oscillators," 2008 ASME
Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October 20-22, 2008.
y\Coarse-grained analysis of collective motion," Applied Mathematics Sem-
inar, University of Michigan, October 3, 2008.
y\Controlling neurons," Department of Mechanical Engineering Collo-
quium, University of Michigan, October 3, 2008.
y\Numerical computation of isochrons," SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego,
California, July 7-11, 2008.
y\Coarse-grained analysis of collective motion," New York Academy of
Sciences Bioactive Systems Symposium, Polytechnic University, New
York City, June 12, 2008.
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\Bursts:
excursions to (and back from) infinity," Sixth SIAM Conference
on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 20-24,
2001.
\Wrinkled tori, bursts, and supergluing bifurcations eue to resonant tem-
poral forcing," Sixth SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical
Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 20-24, 2001.
\Bifurcations with symmetry: an overview," Dynamical Systems / Nonlin-
ear Science Seminar, Princeton University, March 5, 2001.
\Radiation of mixed layer near-inertial oscillations into the ocean interior,"
rd
American Physical Society's 53 Annual Meeting of the Division of
Fluid Dynamics, Washington D.C., November 19-21, 2000.
\Bursts: excursions to (and back from) infinity," Dynamical Systems /
Nonlinear Science Seminar, Princeton University, October 16, 2000.
\Bursts in binary fluid convection," 2000 Summer Study Program in Geo-
physical Fluid Dynamics,
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, June 19-August
25, 2000.
\Wrinkled tori and bursts due to resonant temporal forcing," Special Sem-
inar, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton,
New Jersey, April 18, 2000
\Global bifurcations of parametrically excited surface waves in a square
nd
container," American Physical Society's 52 Annual Meeting of the
Division of Fluid Dynamics, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-23,
1999.
\Effect of a simple storm on a simple ocean," 1999 Summer Study Program
in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, June 21-
August 27, 1999.
\Bursts in oscillatory systems with broken D symmetry," Fifth SIAM Con-
4
ference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May
23-27, 1999.
\Chaotic direction-reversing waves in triple convection," American Physi-
st
cal Society's 51 Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 22-24, 1998.
th
\A new mechanism for bursting," American Physical Society's 50 Annual
Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California,
November 23-25, 1997
.
\A dynamical systems approach to neural networks," Kamp Chaos
1995,
Lake Arrowhead, California, May 19-21, 1995.
Posters
\Analysis of parametric pumping for enhanced oscillator response," with
Yook-Kong Yong, Michael Cross, Randy Kubena, Deb Kirby, David
Chang, and Peter Brewer, MesoDynamics Architectures Kickoff/DEFYS
Program Review Meeting, Jekyll Island, Georgia, July 6-8, 2011.
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\Controlling populations of neurons,&quo
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