Signal Processing Engineering

Borja Manuel Peleato-Inarrea

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Menlo Park, CA

STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA

Education

M.S. Electrical Engineering, June 2009. Ph.D. candidate, expected 2012.

Teaching assistant for EE364A (Convex Optimization), EE263 (Introduction to Lin-

ear Dynamical Systems), CS322/CS224w (Social and Information Network Analysis),

CS161 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), and CS109 (Introduction to probability).

Other coursework in algorithms, image/signal processing, and machine learning.

GPA 3.99

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA

Thesis in Telecommunications Engineering, December 2006.

Thesis Topic: Channel sharing protocols for underwater acoustic sensor networks.

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Barcelona, Spain

B.A. (5 years), Telecommunications Engineering, February 2007.

B.A. (5 years), Mathematics, February 2006.

PROTON DIGITAL SYSTEMS San Jose, CA

Experience

System architect June-Sept. 2011

Developed digital signal processing and coding algorithms for NAND ash memories.

AUDIONEWSPAPER Stanford, CA

Technical co-founder Jan-June 2010

Developed the iphone application and participated in market study, decision making and

general tasks involved in starting the company.

Company did not succeed due to lack of funding.

APPLE Cupertino, CA

iPhone systems engineering internship June-Sept. 2009

Investigated new receiver architectures for 3G wireless communications and evaluated

them through simulations.

MULTICEL TELECOM Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Telecommunications internship (IAESTE) July-Sept. 2005

Performed maintenance tasks in radio and ber optic networks for a company subcon-

tracted by the main telecommunications operator in Brazil.

ENLACE HISPANO AMERICANO DE SALUD Cuzco, Peru

Rural telecommunications project July-Sept. 2004

Planned and deployed a network of voice and e-mail over HF radios powered by solar

cells. This network became the only link of several isolated villages with the nearby

cities.

Evaluated the links for a future wi- high speed network.

B. Peleato, R. Agarwal, J. Cio, M. Qin, and P. Siegel, Towards minimizing read time for

Publications

NAND ash, submitted to IEEE Globecom, 2012.

B. Peleato, R. Agarwal, and J. Cio, Probabilistic graphical model for Flash memory

programming submitted to IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2012.

B. Peleato, R. Agarwal, and J. Cio, On the distribution of valid pages with greedy garbage

collection for NAND ash, submitted to IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop,

2012.

Borja Peleato and Rajiv Agarwal. Maximizing MLC NAND lifetime and reliability in the

presence of write noise . To appear IEEE-ICC 2012.

B. Peleato-Inarrea, Nenad Miladinovic, A. Vityaev. Dual-Stage Data Decoding for Non-

Volatile Memories U.S. Patent application 61 562 182, November 21, 2011.

B. Peleato-Inarrea and A. Vityaev. Two dimensional encoding for Flash blocks . U.S.

Patent application 61 513 510, July 29, 2011.

S. Boyd, N. Parikh, E. Chu, B. Peleato, and J. Eckstein. Distributed Optimization and

Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers . Foundations and

Trends in Machine Learning: Vol. 3: No 1, pp 1-122.

Borja Peleato and Milica Stojanovic. Distance Aware Collision Avoidance Protocol for Ad-

Hoc Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks . Dec. 2007 IEEE Journal on Communication

Letters.

Borja Peleato and Milica Stojanovic. A Channel Sharing Scheme for Underwater Cellular

Networks . 2007 IEEE Oceans Conference.

Borja Peleato and Milica Stojanovic. A MAC Protocol for Ad-Hoc Underwater Acoustic

Sensor Networks . 2006 ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet).

Guest speaker in Agora Talentia, Navarra, Spain 2009.

Honors and

Awards Stanford Certi cate of Achievement for rst place in Image Processing competition, 2008.

La Caixa fellowship for graduate studies in the USA, 2006.

Bronze medal in Latin-American University Math Olympics, 2003-2004 (twice).

President of Iberia, association of Spanish students at Stanford, 2010.

Other

Computer skills: Programming (Pro cient in Matlab, C and C++; familiar with Maple,

Python and Java), Design (Simulink, Lab-View, Autocad, P-Spice), L TEX, O ce, Win-

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dows, and Linux.

Languages: Spanish, English, French, Catalan (excellent); German and Portugese (ele-

mentary).

Diploma in International Cooperation (ISF, Barcelona, Spain).

Diploma in Rural Telecommunications (PUCP, Lima, Peru).

Member of ESF (Enginyers Sense Fronteres).

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