PERSONAL INFORMATION.

            Dr. Francisco Javier Maldonado Diaz was born on December 6, 1962 at Xalapa, Veracruz (Mexico). He received the bachelor of Industrial Engineering in Electronics from the Technologic Institute of Veracruz, Veracruz, in 1985 and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Technologic Institute of Chihuahua [ITCH] at the Graduates Center & Research [GCR], in 1988. In 1988 he obtained a grant from the National System of Researchers (Mexico) and became part of the Faculty of the GCR (now Division of Graduate Studies and Research [DEPI] of the ITCH). There he realized research and academic work, in the area of digital systems, and also attended several commissions as the realization of the proposal for the Ph.D. program of EE at the ITCH (1996). In 1997 he obtained a scholarship (Fulbright-Conacyt) and started his Ph.D. program in EE at the University of Texas at Arlington. In the first part of his studies he was an assistant in the Advanced Control and Sensor group at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute [ARRI], under the addressing of Dr. Frank Lewis. After that, he was a research assistant in the Image Processing and Neural Networks Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Michael Manry . He graduated on December 14, 2002 with the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.  

            After returning to his school in Mexico to teach, he has come back to Fort Worth, where he again works for Williams Pyro. 

His principal research interests are in the area of Neural Networks (training algorithms and applications), Signal Processing and Intelligent Control.

   Research interest.

- Neural Networks.- Fast training algorithms, applications.
- Digital Signal Processing.- Algorithms, applications.
- Kinematics and control.- Mobile robots, Vehicles and Industrial Robots.

 

   Computer Languages.

          - Strong: C, Matlab, assembly 80x86.
          - Experienced: C++, Lisp, Netica, Assembly 8x48, 8x51, 8080/8085, Z80. High level
                             languages; Pascal, Basic.
          - Some experience: Dbase, Fortran, Assembly: Z8000, 6800.

   Operating Systems.

       - User: Windows, DOS, Unix.

   Hardware.

        - PLDs: Altera-VHDL.
        - Microprocessors: 8086/8088, 8085 and support devices.
          - Microcontrollers: 8748, 8751.

   Professional Activities.

        - Member of IEEE societies: Signal Processing, Control and Computers.
          - Reviewer (1988-1995): ELECTRO Conference (Mexico).

    Foreign Languages.

        Fluent in Spanish.
 

   Last occupation.

          - Professor/Researcher.- At the Graduate Program of EE of the Instituto
                            Tecnologico de Chihuahua (National System of Institutes of
                            Technology -SNIT). Professor-Titular. Area of work; Digital
                            systems.
                            Courses taught (Graduate): Digital systems, Introduction
                            to Robotics.
                            Undergraduate: Operating Systems I, Programming,

         - Advising experience.

                           Master thesis:   "Module for programming and operation  
                            for articulated Robot".
                           Student; Jorge Arturo Aguirre Beltran.
                           December 1994.

                           Master thesis:   "Selection and design of the control
                           algorithm for the robot Rhino XR-3".
                           Student; Rafael Sandoval Rodriguez.
                           September 1994.

                           Bachelor thesis:   "Computerized Control System for
                           Robot".
                           Student; Rafael Sandoval Rodriguez..
                           November 1991.

                           Bachelor thesis:   "Interface PC-KM3701".
                           Student; Humberto Enrique Velez Sanchez Verin.
                           December 1990.

                           Bachelor thesis:   "LAN for communication of distributed
                           control systems: development of the physic layer".
                           Student; Mario Rebolledo Cardenas.
                           June 1990.

         - Some projects.

                          "Computerized Control for industrial Robots".
                          Sponsor: COSNET. This project participated in the National
                          contest of creativity (after the regional and prenational contest)
                          of the SNIT (National System of Technologic Institutes at
                          Mexico). 1991-1995.
                          Director of project.                     

                          "Direct Numerical Control". Sponsor: COSNET.1991-1992.
                          Director of project.

                         " Computerization de Centro de Maquinado de ITCH".
                          Implementation of the user interface (software-Pascal),
                          integration of hardware and design of hardware interface for
                          Multibus. 1997-1998.
                          Master thesis.

EDUCATION.

   Courses.

        Courses taken at the department of EE.

        Courses taken at the department of CSE.

WORK EXPERIENCE.

HONORS.

        Fulbright-CONACYT scholarship (Ph.D.) 1997.

        Member of the National System of Researchers- Mexico (SNI Sinstema
            Nacional de Investigadores). File: 884849. Grant: 1988-1993.

        Member of the Eta Kappa Nu Association, 1998.

        Judge in the VIII and X National Contest of Creativity, Mexico.
           Prenational phase.1993, 1995.

PUBLICATIONS.

      Previous to the enrollment to the Ph.D. program of EE, in the area of Digital Systems were published 27 publications in several conferences. Some of them are:

          R. Sandoval, F. Maldonado, "MCS-51 applied to the control of
             articulation", II Congress of Engineering in Electro-mechanics and
             Systems of the Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Mecanica y Electrica
             (ESIME-IPN), Mexico, D.F., 1994. 

          F. Maldonado, R. Sandoval, "Universal Interface for incremental optical
              encoder". ELECTRO 91, XIII Academic National Congress of
             Electronic Engineering, Chihuahua, Mex., 1991.

          R. Sandoval, F. Maldonado, "Design and Implementation of switching
              amplifier for control of DC motors". ELECTRO 91, XIII Academic
               National Congress of Electronic Engineering, Chihuahua, Mex., 1991.

          F. Maldonado, M. Chavez, "Architecture of Computerized Numerical
              Control System for machines", II National meeting of Researchers in the
              field of Computer Science, Toluca, Mex., 1987.

          F. Maldonado, M. Chavez, "Design of the interface for IBM-PC and
             Control Board for Numerical Control with MULTIBUS", ELECTRO 87,
             IX Academic National Congress of Electronic Engineering, Chihuahua,
            Mex., 1987.

LINKS.
 

          University of Texas at Arlington:

http://www.uta.edu/

Advanced Control & Sensors.

http://arri.uta.edu/acs/

          Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua:

main:
http://itch.edu.mx/

DEPI:
http://www.socrates.itch.edu.m_x

ELECTRO (Conference):
http://www.socrates.itch.edu.mx/~electro/

          Instituto Tecnologico de Veracruz:

http://www.itver.edu.mx

          SNIT (National System of Institute of Technology- Sistema Nacional de
              Institutos Tecnologicos), some institutions:

http://www.itch.edu.mx/websp/hermanos.html

http://www.xalapa.gob.mx/

          Graduation Party Pictures