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DR. BRIAN T. HEMMELMAN

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Office Phone: 605-394-1219

EDUCATION

Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering and Science (MES) from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSMT) received Dec. 1998.

M.S. degree in EE received May 1996 from SDSMT.

B.S. degree in EE received May 1992 from SDSMT.

ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SKILLS

HARDWARE

  • 80x86-based Microprocessor Systems

  • 8051-based Microcontroller Systems

  • FPGA-based Digital Systems

  • Reconfigurable Processing Arrays

  • Digital Arithmetic Optimization

  • Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Hardware Design

  • Intelligent Systems

  • Fault Tolerant Computing

  • Real-Time Embedded Systems

SOFTWARE

  • 26 years programming experience in C, BASIC, FORTRAN, Assembly, and VHDL for 80x86 microprocessors, 8051 microcontrollers, UltraSPARC microprocessors, 6502 microprocessors, and Xilinx FPGAs and CPLDs

  • High Performance Computing Algorithms and Techniques

  • Parallel Implementations of BLAS, LAPACK, LINPACK, FFTPACK, VFFTPACK

  • Scientific Modeling

  • Numerical Analysis

  • Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic

  • Computer Control and Interfacing

  • Real-Time Image Processing

MATERIAL SCIENCE SKILLS

  • Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD)

  • Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

  • X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

  • Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Enhanced Reactive Ion Etching

  • Optoelectronic & Magneto-optic Devices

  • III-V Compound Semiconductor Materials Processing

  • Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Fabrication

  • Numerical Modeling of Quantum Structures

HONORS AND ORGANIZATIONS

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow

  • William A. Hixon Award Recipient

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Member of Computational Intelligence, Computer, Signal Processing, Circuits and Systems, Electron Devices, and Education Societies.

  • South Dakota Academy of Science

  • Order of the Engineer

  • Eta Kappa Nu

  • Tau Beta Pi

WORK EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, ECE Dept., SDSMT, Rapid City, SD, August 1999-Present

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for CENG 244 Introduction to Digital Systems.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for CENG 342 Digital Systems Design.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for EE 351 Mechatronics and Measurement Systems.

  • Teach lectures for EE 362 Electric and Magnetic Properties of Materials.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for CENG 420 Design of Digital Signal Processing Systems.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for CENG 440 VLSI Design.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for EE 461 VLSI Technology.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for EE 612 High-Speed Digital Design

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for EE 624 Advanced Digital Signal Processing

  • Teach lectures for EE 644 Fault Tolerant Computing.

  • Teach lectures for EE 645 Advanced Digital Systems And VLSI Testing.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for EE 647 HDL Design.

  • Teach lectures and laboratories for EE 648 Advanced VLSI Design.

  • Teach lectures for EE 692 Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Hardware Design.

  • Research processing element arrays in FPGA chips for parallelized implementation of matrix and numerical analysis computations such as density functional theory.

  • Research VHDL & VLSI implementations of fuzzy logic and neural networks.

  • Research neural signal processing and adaptive filters.

  • Research reconfigurable digital systems using VHDL and FPGA chips.

  • Research fault tolerant computational platforms using FPGA chips and redundant residue number systems.

  • Serve as the Graduate Program Coordinator for the ECE Department.

  • Served as the System Administrator for the ECE Department UNIX lab.

  • Serve as the Faculty Advisor for the IEEE student branch.

  • Served on the Math Skills/Engineering Curricula Alignment Project.

  • Serve as Director for the High Plains Regional Science and Engineering Fair.

  • Served on the University Curriculum Committee.

  • Served on the Faculty Advisory Council.

  • Serve on the Biomedical Engineering Advisory Council.

  • Serve on the Materials Engineering and Science Advisory Council.

  • Served on the Multi-Cultural Program Council.

  • Serve on the ECE Department Curriculum Committee.

  • Serve on the ECE Department Laboratory Committee.

  • Served as a Freshmen Advocate.

Instructor, ECE & Physics Dept., SDSMT, Rapid City, SD, Sept. 1994-May 1999.

  • Taught lectures and laboratories for EE 341 Computer Interfacing and Instrumentation.

  • Taught lectures and laboratories for CENG 342 Digital Systems Design.

  • Taught lectures and laboratories for EE 211 Introduction to Electrical Engineering.

  • Taught lectures for EE 362 Electric and Magnetic Properties of Materials.

  • Taught lectures and laboratories for CENG 448 VLSI Design.

  • Taught lectures and laboratories for CENG 241 Real-time Computer Applications.

  • Managed EE 752 Independent Graduate Studies (VHDL Design and FPGA Systems).

  • Researched the fabrication of Manganese-Aluminum (MnAl) quantum thin films and quantum dots grown on GaAs substrates from Trimethylaluminum (TMAl) and Methylcyclopentadienylmanganese Tricarbonyl (MMT) using Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD).

  • Gave recitation lectures for PHYS 211 Physics I.

  • Proctored EE 480 Applied Electromagnetics.

President, HEMO Research, Rapid City, SD, May 1996-May 2001.

  • Managed all business aspects of consulting firm.

  • Developed a PC-based real-time image processing system.

Software Analyst, Dakota Scientific Software, Rapid City, SD, Sept. 1996-May 1998.

  • Optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) and Linear Algebra PACKage (LAPACK) numerical functions for UltraSPARC SUN workstations.

  • Optimized Numerical Aerospace Simulation (NAS) parallel benchmarks for UltraSPARC SUN workstations resulting in a 1.9x speed improvement in the V-Cycle MultiGrid (MG) component of the benchmark.

  • Developed optimized and parallelized radix-2, radix-4, radix-8, and radix-16 one-dimensional and two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT), convolution, and correlation functions for UltraSPARC SUN workstations.

  • Develop optimized FORTRAN90 intrinsic functions for Intel processors resulting in speed improvements of up to 20x for some functions and an average of 2.7x improvement over compiler intrinsic function speeds.

Research Assistant, Physics Dept., SDSMT, Rapid City, SD, Sept. 1996-Aug. 1997.

  • Conducted ab initio first-principle numerical calculations from the non-spin polarized, scalar relativistic, Hamiltonian based three-dimensional Schrodinger’s equation using the Full-Potential Linear Muffin Tin Orbital (FP-LMTO) model on the equilibrium structure and electric properties of Erbium-Arsenide/Gallium-Arsenide (ErAs/GaAs) quantum (100) oriented superlattices.

Development Engineer, EE Dept., SDSMT, Rapid City, SD, May 1996-Dec. 1996.

  • Designed a high-speed 8051 microcontroller derivative-based data acquisition board.

  • Developed the microcontroller’s interrupt-based operating system.

  • Developed a serial communications link between the data acquisition board and a PC.

  • Developed a library of C-callable (PC side) and assembly-callable (microcontroller side) functions to perform digital and analog input and output, pulse width modulation, timing, etc.

NSF Graduate Fellow, EE Dept., SDSMT, Rapid City, SD, June 1992-May 1995.

  • Researched the epitaxial growth of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Indium Gallium Arsenide (InGaAs), and Indium Phosphide (InP) epitaxial thin films and heterostructures doped with carbon and silicon from carbon tetrachloride and silane using MOCVD.

  • Conducted all hardware and software maintenance on the SDSM&T MOCVD System.

  • Assisted in the design of an electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced reactive ion etcher.

Research Assistant, EE Dept., SDSMT, Rapid City, SD, Aug. 1991-May 1992.

  • Assisted in the construction of the SDSMT MOCVD System.

  • Helped debug computer control system, modified vacuum system, and redesigned the quartz deposition chamber.

  • Assisted in the construction and machining of an induction power supply for substrate heating.

Electrical Engineering Associate, Rockwell International, Cedar Rapids, IA, Jan. 1990-Aug. 1991.

  • Conducted in-depth analysis of CORE fault tolerant processor and authored a white paper on the reliability of fault tolerant architectures.

  • Personally developed three artificial intelligence expert systems.

  • Analyzed field performance of and issued design updates for the DU-1000 Avionics Display Unit.

  • Conducted Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) for FCC-702 Flight Control Computer to verify FAA compliance.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

  • D. Alsup, B. Hemmelman, “Classification of Electrocardiogram Arrhythmias Using Neural Networks”, accepted, Artificial Neural Networks In Engineering (ANNIE) Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2007.

  • E. Minnaert, B. Hemmelman, D. Dolan, “Inverted Pendulum Design with Hardware Fuzzy Logic Controller”, (Invited Paper), 11th World Multi-Conference On Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI), Orlando, FL, 2007.

  • M. Pluimer, B. Hemmelman, “Fuzzy Controller for Self-Centering Differentially Steered Robot”, (Invited Paper), 11th World Multi-Conference On Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI), Orlando, FL, 2007.

  • K. Park, N. Zhang, B. Hemmelman, “Behavior-Based Autonomous Robot Navigation on Challenging Terrain: A Fuzzy Logic Approach”, Artificial Neural Networks In Engineering (ANNIE) Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2006.

  • Q. Ding, N. Zhang, B. Hemmelman, “Classification of Recorded Musical Instrument Sounds Using Neural Network”, Artificial Neural Networks In Engineering (ANNIE) Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2006.

  • N. Zhang, B. Askildsen, B. Hemmelman, “Investigation of Adaptive Filtering for Noisy ECG Signals”, 2006 IEEE Mountain Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems (SMCals 2006), Logan, UT, 2006.

  • L. Terum and B. Hemmelman, “A One GigaFLIPS Fuzzy Logic Control Chip Using Only Combinational Logic and Field Programmable Gate Arrays”, IEEE Region 5 Conference, San Antonio , TX, 2006.

  • M. Hoffman, P. Bauer, B. Hemmelman, A. Hasan, “Hardware Synthesis of Artificial Neural Networks Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Fixed-Point Numbers”, IEEE Region 5 Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

  • N. Zhang, D. Beetner, D. Wunsch, B. Hemmelman, A. Hasan, “An Embedded Real-Time Neuro-Fuzzy Controller for Mobile Robot Navigation”, FuzzIEEE 2005 Conference.

  • Brian T. Hemmelman, “High Performance Real-Time Fuzzy Logic System Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays and VHDL”, Artificial Neural Networks In Engineering (ANNIE) Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2004.

  • Brian T. Hemmelman and Chaitanya Chandrana, “Real-Time Fuzzy Logic Computations”, Proc. S.D. Acad. Sci., 2003.

  • Brian T. Hemmelman, A. Benjamin Premkumar, and P. Anirudh Reddy, “Error Correction of Corrupted Data Using Redundant Residue Number System, Proc. S.D. Acad. Sci. 2003.

  • Brian T. Hemmelman, “Simulation and Fabrication of Magnetic Quantum Structures”, Invited Seminar, Eastern New Mexico University, 1999.

  • Brian T. Hemmelman, “Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Metal-Semiconductor Magnetic Heterostructures”, Ph.D. Dissertation, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 1998.

  • Brian T. Hemmelman, A.G. Petukhov, L.G. Meiners, “Quantum Thin Magnetically Active MnAl Grown Using MOCVD”, South Dakota NSF EPSCoR Conference, 1998.

  • W.R.L. Lambrecht, A.G. Petukhov, B.T. Hemmelman, “Schottky Barrier Formation at ErAs/GaAs Interfaces: A Case of Fermi Level Pinning by Surface States”, Solid State Communications, vol. 108, no. 6, pp. 361-365, 1998.

  • A.G. Petukhov, B.T. Hemmelman, W.R.L. Lambrecht, “Equilibrium Structure and Schottky Barriers at ErAs/GaAs Interfaces”, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 492, pp. 109-114, 1998.

  • B.T. Hemmelman, A.G. Petukhov, W.R.L. Lambrecht, “Electronic Structure and Transport Properties of ErAs/GaAs Heterostructures”, Joint North Dakota South Dakota NSF EPSCoR Conference, 1997.

  • A.G. Petukhov, B.T. Hemmelman, W.R.L. Lambrecht, “Schottky barrier formation at ErAs/GaAs (001) interfaces”, Bull. Of American Physical Society, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 678, 1997.

  • B.T. Hemmelman, “Epitaxial Growth and Doping of Indium Gallium Arsenide and Gallium Arsenide with Carbon Tetrachloride and Silane Using Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Masters Degree Thesis, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 1996.

  • L.G. Meiners and B.T. Hemmelman, “A low-cost induction power supply for substrate heating”, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 64, no. 5, May 1993, pp. 1296-1303.

  • Brian T. Hemmelman, “The Dynamics of Fault Tolerant Computing”, IEEE Region 5 Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1992.

FUNDED PROPOSALS

  • D. Dolan, J. Weiss, B. Hemmelman, “UAV-Deployed Penetrating Radar for Through-The-Wall Sensing”, Army Research Laboratory, $690,000 (2007).

  • G. Pillay, J. Sears, K. Whites, V. Kalanovic, R. Winter, D. Dolan, D. Boyles, H. Fong, K. Muci, T. Corbin, D. Dixon, H. Hong, M. Batchelder, A. Anderson, J. Weiss, U. Korde, B. Hemmelman, M. Langerman, L. Kjerengtroen, G. Buck, W. Arbegast, C. Allen, “Advanced Materials and Processes for Future Combat Systems”, Army Research Laboratory, $1,794,263 (additional).

  • G. Pillay, J. Sears, F. Marquis, S. Farwell, K. Whites, V. Kalanovic, R. Winter, D. Dolan, D. Boyles, H. Fong, K. Muci, T. Corbin, K. Felling, D. Dixon, H. Hong, M. Batchelder, A. Anderson, J. Weiss, U. Korde, B. Hemmelman, M. Langerman, L. Kjerengtroen, G. Buck, “Advanced Materials and Processes for Future Combat Systems”, Army Research Laboratory, $4,580,737 (2005-2009).

  • B. Hemmelman, L. Chen, N. Zhang, “Intelligent and Fault Tolerant Signal Processing for Space Systems”, NASA Program Initiation Grant, $15,000 (2005-2007).

  • B. Hemmelman, “Field Programmable Array Optimizing of WallVisionTM”, Realtronics Inc. (Prime: Army Research Laboratory), $418,000 (2004-2009).

  • B. Hemmelman and S. Ponpandi, “Improving and Integrating the Computer Engineering Curriculum Through Hands-On Experiential Design”, Bush Faculty Development Grant, $4595 (2003).

  • B. Hemmelman, “Equipment Donation: System Generator, Embedded Developer’s Kit, ChipScope, PCI Core, and Forge Software”, Xilinx Corporation, $21,175 (2003).

  • B. Hemmelman and K. Whites, “LTO Data Cartridge RF Tags”, Imation Corporation, $10,000 (2003).

  • B. Hemmelman and M. Andrawis, “VLSI Design”, Governor Rounds Technology Grant Program in Course Redesign, $58,990 (2003).

  • B. Hemmelman, “Integration of Mentor Graphics Computer-Aided-Engineering and Electronics-Design-Automation Tools Into VLSI Design”, Governor Janklow Faculty Awards for Teaching With Technology, $15,085 (2002).

  • B. Hemmelman, “Equipment Donation: Foundation Software and Digilent FPGA Prototyping Boards”, Xilinx Corporation, $1944 (2001).


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