Electrical Engineering Advisory Board

Charles N. Pateros (ViaSat, Inc.)
[Dr. Pateros is the Chair of the EEAB and also a member of the EAB.]
Dr. Charles N. Pateros is an Engineering Manager and Member of Technical Staff at ViaSat, Inc, in Carlsbad, CA. At ViaSat, Dr. Pateros has provided both technical and program management for commercial and military programs involving digital signal processing and modem development and production. He has developed multi-rate modem algorithms and has been issued a patent for an interference rejection algorithm. He is currently providing technical support at the corporate level, directing new concept and intellectual property development. His Ph.D. (1993, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY) involved the invention and development of a multiple access digital receiver that incorporates the multi-path combiner of a RAKE receiver with an interference rejecting filter into one adaptive correlator structure; he won the Charles Close Doctoral Prize in 1993 for this work. At ViaSat, Dr. Pateros has provided both technical and program management for commercial and military programs involving digital signal processing and modem development and production. He has developed multi-rate modem algorithms and has been issued a patent for an interference rejection algorithm.

Scott Denton (Broadcom)
Scott Denton is a senior design engineer at where he has been project and design team leader on several projects including broadband transceivers, receivers, and transmitters. He specializes in architectural specifications (EAS) creation, chip design and verification. He is project lead for "YUKON", the first single chip OC-48c SONET/SDH Framer/ Mapper with integrated clock recovery and clock synthesis. He has three patents currently in preparation. He received his BS/BA in Electrical Engineering from USD in 1997.

Keith Pflieger (TrellisWare Technologies)
Keith Pflieger is the Lead Hardware/Systems Engineer for TrellisWare Technologies where he performs system simulation, and does algorithm development and digital design. From 1994 to 2000, he was a lead hardware engineer at ViaSat, Inc., working on projects involving 2G-3G Cellular and design, and advanced signal processing algorithms for data demodulation, and channel estimation and equalization. Mr. Pflieger has also worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, NavSys Corporation in Colorado Springs, CO, and LTX Corporation in Westwood, MA. He has an MSEE and a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.

Donald L. Reed (SAIC)
Donald L. Reed is currently employed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Navigation, Systems, and Knowledge Engineering Division, as Director of Navigation and Communications Research responsible for research, development, test and evaluation, and exploitation of Navigation and Communications Concepts. Mr. Reed is responsible for a team of engineers and programmers developing communications systems, Global Navigation Signal Simulators, GPS signal/satellite verification assets and next generation GPS receivers. For the last 4 year he has been supporting the Navy and GPS Joint Program Office's GPS Modernization programs, as well as the development of Direct Digital Synthesizers and Digital Receivers utilizing FPGA technologies. Mr. Reed received his BS in Computer Engineering from Wright State University in 1985. Before joining, SAIC he was employed by CSC as a Senior Engineer, where he ran an Air Force communications, navigation, and identifications research laboratory. At CSC he was instrumental in the development of the GPS Antenna WaveFront Simulator (AWFS) and Avionics Wind Tunnel at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Jarvis Tou (Silicon Wave)
[Mr. Tou is also a member of the EAB.]
Jarvis Tou is Vice President, Marketing & Product Management, for Silicon Wave, the San Diego company responsible for the Bluetooth Technology applications that are revolutionizing personal-area and local-area-networks. He holds a BSEE from the University of Michigan, MSEE from Purdue University, an MBA from Arizona State University, and has also participated in the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Silicon Wave, Jarvis co-founded the Wireless Products Operation for Intel Corporation where as managing director, he was responsible for developing and delivering branded personal wireless products for end-users based on Bluetooth technologies. Previously at Motorola, Mr. Tou was a project leader and VLSI design engineer for silicon compiler and memory design with the ASIC Division, and also held positions in the BiCMOS technology development and CMOS manufacturing groups.

Terry Hache (General Atomics)
Terry Hache is an embedded software engineer with over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing software/firmware for real-time embedded systems, both in signal processing and communications. Experienced in dealing with development of high speed DSP and control applications for the navy, local wireless/telecom firms, and labs such as the NSA. Has been an IEEE member for four years and has served in several positions in the San Diego IEEE Executive Committee including serving as Chair for 2005-2006.

Gail Dawn Baura (Cardio Dynamics)
Gail Dawn Baura received a BSEE from Loyola Marymount University in 1984, and an MSEE and MSBME from Drexel University in 1987.  She received a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Washington in 1993.  Between these graduate degrees, Gail worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories.  Since graduation, she has served in a variety of research positions at IVAC Corporation, Cardiotronics Systems, Alaris Medical Systems, and VitalWave Corporation (now Tensys).  Gail is currently the Vice President of Research at CardioDynamics.  Her textbook, System Theory and Practical Application of Biomedical Signals (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2002) is part of the IEEE Series in Biomedical Engineering.  She will publish two other textbooks in 2006.  Gail is a Senior Member of IEEE, Associate Editor of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, and a Biomedical Engineering evaluator for the Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology.  She holds 13 issued and 7 pending U.S. patents.  Her research interests are the application of system theory to patient monitoring and insulin metabolism.