Gerald Miller
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Email: GDMiller@niu.edu
Tel: 815-753-9967
Education
- Ph.D.E.E. (1971), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- M.S.E.E. (1967), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
- B.S.E.E. (1964), University of Illinois, Champaign.
Research Interests
Parallel processing, software engineering, real-time microprocessor based designs, digital/analog hardware.
Work Experience
- Department of Electrical Engineering, NIU (2002-present), Professor
- Associate Professor (1988-2002)
Teaching Experience
- Adjunct Professor/lecturer, Department of Industry and Technology, NIU (1978-1988)
Research and Industrial Experience
- Section Manager, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (1984-1987)
- Research Engineer, Fermi National Accelerator laboratory (1983-1984)
- Bell Telephone Laboratories (1978-1981)
- Technical manager, International Telephone and Telegraph (1977-1978)
- Design Engineer, Sangamo Electric Company (1966-1967)
- Engineer, Texas Instruments (1964-1966)
Professional Associations and Honors
- IEEE, ACM, Eta Kappa Nu, James Scholar, Sigma Tau
- “Faculty of the Year for Outstanding Services to Students” 1999, 2000 Finalist
- “University’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award”
- The Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education
- Eta Kappa Nu – Faculty Adviser
Selected Publications
- “Trampolines for Embedded Systems,” Joseph Link, Dr. Dobb’s Embedded Systems, 9/2001, pp 81-86.
- “Rule-Based Noise Cancellation: A Fuzzy Line Enhancer,” with Tao Zhou, International Journal of Fuzzy Control and Adaptive Signal processing, Italy, 2000.
- “An Interband Coding of the New Lossless JPEG Standard,” with V. Sippy et al., Visual and Communication and Image Professing Conference, San Jose, CA, February 12-14, 1997.
University Service
University Level:
- Academic Planning Committee – member
- Curriculum Committee – member
- Assessment Committee – member
College Level:
- College Council – member,
- Curriculum Committee – member
Department Level:
- Faculty Search Committee – member
- chair, EE Chair Search Committees – member
- chair, Personnel Committee – member
- Curriculum Committee – member
- Department Student Grievance Committee – member
- Graduate Committee – member; chair
- Course Scheduling Committee – member
- Teaching Assistant Assignment Committee – member
- Academic Grade Review Board – member
CONSULTANTSHIPS:
- Embedded Technologies
- Invention Machine Technology
- ITC, Shure Brothers
- Future Phase
- Hitecnics
- the Lead Group
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- C & C Technology
- Triangle Machinery
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