Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., The University of Texas at El Paso
Tel. direct (915)747-6968 ; Dept. (915)747-5470 ; FAX: (915)747-7871
E-mail: cabrera@ece.utep.edu

SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING: multirate signal processing; time-frequency signal processing; image compression; superresolution in SAR imaging; computer vision and digital signal processing in manufacturing.

Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering (1985), Rice University, Houston, TX.
M. S. in Electrical Engineering (1979), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
B. S. in Eletrical Engineering (1977), MIT, Cambridge, MA

Jan. 1992 - present: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. (ECE), University of Texas El Paso

• Semester courses taught: Networks I, Signals and Systems, Probability, Digital Signal Processing (undergraduate and graduate), Signal Theory, Image Processing, Computer Vision.
• Ph. D. dissertation supervision: 1 completed, 2 in progress
• M. S. thesis supervision: 13 completed as sole supervisor, 4 completed as joint supervisor
• Educational projects: founder and co-sponsor (with B. Usevitch) of the Signal Processing and Communications (SPC) affinity group since the 1995-96 academic year.
• Graduate advisor: January 2000 – present.

SUMMER '94: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.

• Title and affiliation: 1994 University Summer Faculty, Synthetic Aperture Radars Department.

SUMMER '92: NCCOSC RDT&E (NRaD) Division (Navy), San Diego, CA

• Title and affiliation: 1992 Navy Summer Faculty Fellow/ Signal and Information Processing Division.

Aug. 87 - Dec. 91: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

• Semester courses: Signals and Systems, Electrical Devices and Circuits Lab., Communication Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Intro. to Statistical Communications, Advanced Topics in Signal Processing, Signal Theory
• Ph. D. dissertations supervised to completion: 3 completed
• M. S. thesis and papers supervised to completion: 1 thesis, 7 papers
• Faculty advisor to the student chapter of Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (1988 - 1991).

SUMMER '91: Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Title and affiliation: 1991 NASA Summer Faculty Fellow, Information Systems Group.

Mario Gonzalez, UT Austin; C. S. Burrus, Rice Univ.; Eugene John, UT Pan American; J. R. Villalobos, Arizona State Univ.; D. Cooke, Texas Tech. Univ.