Ms. Biao Lu
Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1084 USA
Work Phone: +1 281-285-8835
Home Phone: +1 713-789-7189
E-mail: blu@ece.utexas.edu
Web: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~blu

Available in and

Education - Experience - Computer Skills - Professional Activities - Honors and Awards - Leadership - Courses taken at UT - Fluent Languages - Publications - References

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2000
  The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  Area: Telecommunications and Information Systems Engineering
  Dissertation Topic: WIRELINE CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND EQUALIZATION
  Dissertation Advisor: Brian L. Evans
  GPA: 3.70/4.00
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, December 1997
  The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  Area: Telecommunications and Information Systems Engineering
  GPA: 3.70/4.00
• Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering, July 1992
  Capital Institute of Medicine, Beijing, P. R. China
  Senior Project: ``Data Compression of ECG Using Multilayer Perceptron Network''
  Project Advisor: Prof. Kai Ouyang
  GPA: 3.85/4.00

Experience

• Working Experience: May 1999 - August 1999
  Summer Intern at Austin Product Center, Schlumberger, USA
  • Designed and modified the time-domain equalizers for wireline systems
  • Worked on performance analysis of time-domain equalizers
• Research Experience: January 1997 - present
  Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory, UT-Austin
  • Researching the channel shortening for discrete multitone systems
  • Researching the blind channel shortening for discrete multitone system
  • Performance analysis of feedforward neural network equalizers
  • Design of a new equalizer by cascading two feedforward neural networks
  • Worked on parameter estimation of exponentially damped sinusoids.
  • Heterogeneous modeling of neural networks in Ptolemy environment.
  • Using Cellular Neural Networks in image processing for edge detection and image halftoning.
  • Combination of cellular neural networks and wavelets for removing both impulsive noise and Gaussian noise
• Research Experience: May 1996 - December 1996
  Computer and Vision Research Center, UT-Austin
  • Worked on thermal image modeling of vehicles in the outdoors environments
  • Worked on automatic target recognition of FLIR images
• Teaching Experience: Spring 1996 and Spring 1997: Teaching Assistant
  • Taught Pharmaceutics II in College of Pharmacy, UT-Austin. Held the office hours and answered students' questions in 1995.
  • Gave the lectures on Introduction to Chemical Practice in the department of Chemistry at UT-Austin in Spring 1996 and Spring 1997. Created each lesson plan for various classes. Assisted students with experiments
• Research Experience: July 1992 - January 1994
  Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Peking Union Medical College
  • Worked on the R-wave detection of electro-cardiagraphy (ECG) for intra-aortic balloon bump trigger machine.
  • Worked on animal experiments on testing the performance of IABP.
  • Worked on data compression of ECG using neural networks
  • Worked on ECG classification using neural networks
  • Worked on the modeling of the pharmacokinetics

Computer Skills

• Design Tools: MATLAB, Ptolemy,
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows 95/NT, DOS
• Programming Languages: C/C++, Java
• Assembly Languages: Z80, Motorola 68HC11, TMS320C30
• Development tools: Emacs, GNU debugger, Purify, Make, source code control (SCCS and RCS).

Professional Activities

• Student Member in Signal Processing, Communications, and Computer Society, IEEE
• Reviewer for refereed journals
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Signal Processing Letters
  • Journal of Laboratory Technology for Bioresearch: BioTechniques
• Reviewer for technical conferences
  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000
  • IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, 1999
  • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1999
  • IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, 1998

Honors and Awards

• Professional Development Award from The University of Texas at Austin in May 1999.
• Awarded the scholarship for the Excellent Students in Natural Sciences, provided by the Taiwan (China) Sharp Group (1991)

Leadership

• I was a lab manager for the Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory from September, 1998 to May, 2000.
• I have participated in the organization of second Far Eastern Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering (FECMBE '93), August 13-18, Beijing, P.R.China, 1993.

Courses Taken at UT

1. Digital Signal Processing: Dr. A. C. Bovik
2. Advanced Signal Processing: Dr. F. A. Sakarya
3. Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing: Dr. Brian L. Evans
4. Real-time Digital Signal Processing: Dr. B. L. Evans
5. Digital Image Processing: Dr. A. C. Bovik
6. Advanced Computer Vision: Dr. J. K. Aggarwal
7. Vision System: Dr. B. Geisler
8. Optimization in Engineering Systems: Dr. R. Baldick
9. Embedded Software Systems: Dr. Brian L. Evans
10. Introduction to Telecommunication, Prof. S. Tawil
11. Digital Communications: Dr. G. Xu
12. Communication Networks and Protocols: Dr. G. de Veciana
13. Probability and Stochastic Processes: Dr. G. de Veciana
14. Information Theory: Dr. G. de Veciana
15. Wavelets: Theory and Applications: Dr. J. Gilbert
16. Integral Transform: Dr. W. Guy
17. Real Analysis: Dr. V. Mascioni
18. Engineering Programming Languages: Dr. C. Chase
19. Neural Networks: Dr. R. Miikkulainen
20. Research Problem with Dr. Brian L. Evans

Fluent Languages

• Chinese (native language) and English.

Publications

1. Biao Lu, Lloyd D. Clark, Güner Arslan, and Brian L. Evans, ``Fast Time-Domain Equalization for Discrete Multitone Modulation Systems'', IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Hunt, Texas; October 15-18, 2000.
2. Biao Lu, Lloyd D. Clark, Güner Arslan, and Brian L. Evans, ``Divide-and-Conquer and Matrix Pencil Methods for Discrete Multitone Equalization,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, submitted.
3. Biao Lu and Brian L. Evans, ``Channel Equalization by Feedforward Neural Networks,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Sym. on Circuits and Systems, May 30-Jun. 2, 1999, Orlando, FL, vol. 5, pp. 587-590.
4. Biao Lu, Dong Wei, Brian L. Evans, and Alan C. Bovik, ``Improved Matrix Pencil Methods'', Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, pp. 1433-1437, Nov. 1-4, 1998.
5. Biao Lu, Brian L. Evans, and Dejan V. Tosic, ``Simulation and Synthesis of Artificial Neural Networks Using Dataflow Models in Ptolemy,'' Proc. IEEE Conf. on Neural Network Applications in Engineering, Sep. 8-9, 1997, pp. 114-119.
6. Biao Lu, Shuling Yang, ``The Recent Development of the Biosensor (Review),'' Information of Medical Equipment, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 9-11, April, 1992 (in Chinese).
7. Kai Ouyang, Biao Lu, Bin Zhang, Na Qi, and Yan Yan, ``The Research of the Data Compression of the ECG using the Neural Network,'' Proc. International Symposium on Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering, Shanghai, P.R. China, Sep. 24-26, 1992, pp. 242-244.
8. Kai Ouyang, Biao Lu, Weifang Liu, Bin Zhang, Na Qi, and Yan Yan, ``The Neural Network for the ECG data compression,'' Proc. National Conference on Medical Engineering and Biological Cybernetics, Ningde, Fujian, P.R. China, Oct. 7-9, 1992, pp. 48.

References: available on requests

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