Daniel Weller April 2006

Daniel Weller @ MIT

Graduate Student
EECS (Course 6)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
dweller at mit dot edu

Resume

Internship Resume (pdf) (doc) (txt)

Biography

I am pursuing Master's and Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This follows the culmination of my undergraduate work at Carnegie Mellon University, where I received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with honors). Preceding my post-secondary education, I graduated as a valedictorian from Upper Saint Clair High School in Upper Saint Clair, PA. I also attended the (summer) 2002 Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences, held at Carnegie Mellon.

In addition to academics, I am involved in various leadership activities. At MIT, I am the Vice President for Academics and Diversity in the EECS Graduate Student Association, where I work with committee chairs and student volunteers to organize programs that enhance the academic sphere of graduate life and bring attention to the issues faced by students of diverse backgrounds. I have been working this past year with the IEEE student chapter at MIT to lead 6.Insight, a department-wide seminar series to introduce students to cutting-edge topics in electrical engineering and computer science and bring attention to exciting areas of research. I also am a Coffee Hour Chair at the Sidney-Pacific graduate residence hall at MIT for 2007-2008. This past year, I was a representative of EECS graduate students to the Graduate Student Council. At Carnegie Mellon, I held several offices in the Student Dormitory Council, a student organization dedicated to representing and improving the lives of residents of the campus housing system. I also worked with other students and administrators as a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department's Student Advisory Committee (ECE-SAC), where I also helped organize the department's first event involving undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff, the First Annual ECE Day.

I also enjoy foosball, tennis, and watching Pittsburgh Steelers football. HERE WE GO!

Courses

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Fall 2006

At Carnegie Mellon (Fall 2003-Spring 2006, Pre-College, and AP)

Research

Signal Transformation and Information Representation (STIR) Group

Sampling Jitter in Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs)

The sampling process of acquiring discrete-time (digital) signals from continuous-time (analog) signals used in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is highly susceptible to timing noise, or inaccuracy in the phase of the clock controlling the sampling process. Current methods involve designing analog clock circuitry with very nearly exact clock phase, at the expense of component cost, power consumption, and component size. As devices that interact with the analog world get smaller and have more stringent power requirements, ADCs have become a significant limiting factor. I am looking at signal processing alternatives for reducing the effect of timing noise, particularly non-linear algorithms for signal post-processing and am comparing these novel algorithms to those linear algorithms already developed. This work will enable significant advances in sensors, medical equipment, and scientific instrumentation. The sampling jitter problem also has higher-dimensional analogues in image-acquisition and microscopy.

Publications

The below articles may be protected by copyrights and/or international treaties. To obtain these articles, please either click on the supplied link or email me to request a copy for personal use.
  1. Mangharam, R., Weller, D. S., et. al. "GrooveNet: A Hybrid Simulator for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networks (Invited Paper)." Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications. San Jose, CA, USA, July 2006. (pdf)
  2. Mangharam, R., Weller, D. S., et. al. "GrooveSim: A Topography-Accurate Simulator for Geographic Routing in Vehicular Networks." Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. Cologne, Germany, September 2005. (pdf)

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