I graduated from Electrical Engineering, in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California with a Masters of Science Degree. Professor Giuseppe Caire was my advisor, guiding me through the world of Information Theory. I am now a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, working on information theoretic analysis of biological cell signaling networks. Previously, I have worked on embedded systems hardware for Professor Mark Corner of UMass, 3D Modeling of SATCOM channels as an intern at MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and various projects as a co-op for the Department of Defense.

Education

• M.S. Electrical Engineering, 2007, University of Southern California
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2006, University of Massachusettes at Amherst
• B.S. Computer Systems Engineering, 2006, University of Massachusettes at Amherst

Awards

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2007-2010
• Viterbi School of Engineering Dean’s Fellowship, 2006-2007

Associations

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Student Member
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Student Member
• Tau Beta Pi (TBP), Member
• Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Member

Curriculum Vitae

• Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems. [bibtex]
  by Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger.
  In Proceedings of The Fifth International ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ’07), Sydney, Australia, November 2007.
  Note: Eon was eFlux before it had an identity crisis.
• eFlux: A language and runtime system for perpetual systems. [bibtex] [PDF]
  by Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger.
  Technical Report TR 06-61, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December 2006.
• Generalization of Channel Blockage Profiles for SATCOM On-The-Move Using 3-D Models. [bibtex] [PDF] [PPT]
  by Matthew D. Brennan and W. Mark Smith.
  To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM'06), Washington, DC, October 2006.
  
• eFlux: Simple Automatic Adaptation for Environmentally Powered Devices (Poster/Demo). [bibtex] [PDF]
  by Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, and Emery Berger.
  In 7th IEEE workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile/WMCSA), Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, April 2006.
  
  
  

Other Things

prntd: Devoted to screenprinting, prntd is a collaboratative effort I’m involved in. Currently, it consists of a blog. Soon...we’ll see. TurtleNet: A project in the UMass PRISMS Lab (CS Dept) I helped with in undergrad. Buddy Bug: A portable social networking device, developed as a group senior design project at UMass.

Things That Aren't Mine

• Thawte: Digitally sign or encrypt your email.
• Pandora: Free & legal streaming music. Tell it your current favorites, let it find your new favorites. (Related research by Prof Gert Lanckriet of UCSD, and his students)
• Threadless: Sweet t-shirts.