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Resume---CE
2001-01-08 17:20:50
Objective:
A research or R&D position in process or environmental engineering. Broad
interests in process and system development, innovation and improvement,
advanced process control and system engineering
Education:
[*]University of Colorado, Boulder, Ph.D. candidate in Chemical
Engineering; expected graduation date March 1996
Dissertation: Monitoring, Detection and Diagnosis of the Source Function
Change with an Application to Indoor Air Quality Control
[*]Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, Candidate of Science in Control of
Technical Systems, 1991
Dissertation: Singularly Perturbed Systems with Multiple Time Scales:
Asymptotic Approximation, Identification and Control
[*]Odessa Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, M.S. in Electrical Engineering,
June 1986
Dissertation: Design of the Minimal LISP Machine
Professional experience:
[*]05/92-present Research Assistant, NASA Specialized Center for Research
and Training at the University of Colorado.
* Developed an on-line indoor air quality monitoring, fault detection
and isolation system
* Developed a 3-D computer model of the convective-diffusive transport
process
* Discovered a novel Implicit Kalman filtering method
* Developed and implemented a source function isolation method, which is
based on the transformation of the initial problem into an optimal
control problem
* Designed a neural network based system for the contaminant source
localization through pattern recognition of the source effects
* Supervised the independent research program of one undergraduate
student
* Purchased, installed and maintained a 10/88-12/91 Senior Researcher,
Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine), Department of Mathematical
Methods of System Analysis.
* Starting as a Junior Scientific Fellow, advanced to full time
Senior Researcher with increasing responsibility for design,
research and management
* Developed methods/software for optimal location of
sensors/actuators in distributed parameter systems. Application
areas: large space structures, enhanced oil recovery
* Developed mathematical methods and software for the simulation
and forecast of the dispersion of the atmospheric contaminants in
an industrial region
* For systems with multiple time scales, developed a novel approach
to the state and parameter estimation and optimal control.
Applications: catalytic styrene reactors, simulation of the
ocean-atmosphere interaction
* Managed a group of five engineers and researchers
[*] 6/86-09/88 Junior Scientific Fellow, Odessa Polytechnic Institute
(Ukraine), Department of Industrial and Remote Control
* Developed an algorithm and software for optimal sensor and
actuator location for distributed parameter systems
[*] 09/84-02/86 Research Assistant, Odessa Polytechnic Institute
(Ukraine), Department of Industrial and Remote Control
* As a part of the weather satellite data processing project,
developed micro-computer assembler software for floating point
arithmetic operations and designed a hardware interface between a
satellite data receiver and telex transmitter
[*] 06/84-08/84 and 06/85-08/85 Internship, Institute of Economics of
Ukrainian Academy of Science, Department of Rule-Based Control
* Assisted with the development of a knowledge representation shell
for image recognition systems and rule-based control
Teaching experience:
[*]01/95-05/95 Advanced Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado,
Department of Chemical Engineering.
Assisted in the development and teaching of a new Chemical Engineering
graduate/undergraduate course on Environmental Process Engineering.
[*]01/92-05/92 Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado, Department
of Chemical Engineering.
Assisted in teaching/grading the undergraduate Chem. Eng.
Thermodynamics course
[*]09/90-05/91 Lecturer, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine),
Department of Mathematical Methods of System Analysis.
On a part time basis, taught a university course on Control of
Technical Systems. Developed supporting computer software.
Research interests:
Process Control; Optimal, H-infinity and Robust Control, State and
Parameter Identification; Monitoring, Fault Detection and Diagnosis;
Kalman Filtering; Distributed Parameter Systems; Singularly Perturbed
Systems; Noninvertible and Singular Systems; Stochastic Systems;
Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Methods; System Analysis and
System Engineering; Optimal Sensors and Actuators Location;
Environmental Process Engineering and Pollution Prevention; Neural
Networks
Honors, affiliations and grants:
* American Institute of Chemical Engineers
* Sigma Xi
* Student representative on the External Advisory Committee,
Department of Chemical Engineering, CU/Boulder (1995)
* Invitation and travel grant to participate in the 1995 Gordon
Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, New Hampton, NH
* Invitation and travel grant to participate in the workshop on
Noninvertible Dynamical Systems: Theory, Computation, Applications,
University of Minnesota (1995)
* Outstanding young researcher, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1991)
* Member of the Program Committee of 4th International Industrial
Control Conference (1990)
Publications and presentations:
Over 20 journal and conference publications, numerous presentations
Proposals:
W. F. Ramirez and M. Skliar, "Robust Intelligent Sensor System for
Monitoring and Diagnosis of Air Contaminants," NASA proposal, three
year funding for $601,269 is pending (1995)
W. F. Ramirez and M. Skliar, "Detection and Diagnosis of Air
Contaminants in Large Office Buildings," EPA proposal, three year
funding for $479,939 is pending (1995)
W. F. Ramirez and M. Skliar, "Modeling, Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis
of Spacecraft Air Contaminants," NASA proposal, three year funding for
$344,904 granted (1994)
Computer skills:
C, Fortran, Unix, MatLab, Aspen+, variety of packages including
computer aided design software, some administration of Digital Unix
Personal:
US permanent resident. Speak Ukrainian, Russian
Other activities:
Volunteer interpreter for the University Hospital; hiking and climbing
Colorado fourteeners; mountain hiking; fishing; remodeling; computer
enthusiast
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