Wm. Michael Miller 4107 Waterford Circle, Apt #5

Louisville, Ky. 40207

502-472-5240

mike.miller@louisville.edu

Summary of Qualifications:

Project Manager / Research & Design Engineer

Electrical Design (Analog and Digital)

Software Experience in C and C++.

Hands on Mechanical Experience in many applications.

Self-Starter / Innovator / Make it happen attitude.

Education:

Masters of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, University of Louisville

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Louisville

AAS, Engineering Technology, University of Louisville

Continuing Studies in Graphic Arts, Animations and Web Design, Sierra College

Awards/Patents:

U.S. Patent # 4,735,517 “Printer with Flux Regulator”.

Elected Group Member of Texas Instruments Technical Staff.

U.S. Patent for Improved Grounding Techniques for Printed Circuit boards.

Patent Pending 06046, Inferring Missing Information Using Dental Databases.

Patent Pending submitted, Optical probe for 3D object reconstruction from sequence of images.

Employment History:

University of Louisville, Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor: Project Manager on several projects to enable and support 15 to 22 graduate students in Biomedical Imaging and Robotics for the Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab (ECE Dept.)

The Biomedical Developments encompassed converting CT and MRI slices into 3D reconstructions to develop several medical analysis tools. The main medical projects are: 3D virtual models of the human jaw from video replacing plaster molds; ankle fusion surgery tools and novel virtual colonoscopy techniques from CT scans; and vital signs from thermal Imaging.

The Robotic development included both hardware and software development in autonomous robotics for robots traveling terrain in both the real and virtual world; Robotic Refueling of ground vehicles and aircraft; and Humanoid Robotic Interfacing.

Other Computer Vision Work:

Facial Recognition beyond 50 meters (Stereo and Mono imaging)

Enhancing Autistic Students learning via biofeedback and humanoid robotic interfaces. (Applies our technology of extracting vital signs from thermal imaging, and emotions from facial features.)

General Support:

Specify/ design/ install sensors, cameras, optics, and software. Examples: - Stereo camera platform with powered pan/tilt, zoom and baseline adjustments, with

automate capture algorithms - CCD camera mechanism to fit within a patient’s mouth, lighting, and lens

requirements - Design Replica of jet aircraft fuselage section with refueling adapter and fitted robotic

arm with new camera and replica of jet refueling nozzle.

Design any equipment, circuit boards, and fixtures necessary in the research environment (Electrical and/or Mechanical).

Design support software as needed in computer vision algorithm development.

Computer support: debugging, upgrading and repairing.

Proof Read all student publications (We publish 20 – 40 papers a year.)

Teaching: Taught Electrical Engineering Courses as needed (ECE 333, and ECE 252).

Administrative Responsibilities:

Project Reports: Responsible for all project reports and project schedules for project funded by NSF, NIH, KSEF, KCF, USAF, USARMY, DOD, HSD, NASA EPSCOR, and Commercial Companies.

Project Meetings: Responsible for coordinating most of the project meetings with hospitals staffs, other engineering entities, and commercial companies, as well as compiling presentations, reports and action items.

Proposal Submittal: Compiled all inputs from PI’s and other researches (medical and engineering) into early drafts for proposals to the NIH, NSF, NASA EPSCOR, DOD, HSD, KSEF, KCF, USAF and Commercial Companies. Managed these proposals through completion, including final submission through Grants Management and Industrial Contracts, as well as working with The Technology Transfer Office as needed.

Patents: Filed multiple patents through the U of L patent office and worked resulting office actions. Resulting in 4 US issued patents and several provisional patents for our team in the last 8 years.

IRB Coordinator Role: Responsible for all documentation, submittals, and continuation Reviews for the lab 8 lab studies / projects.

VERIFONE / HP: Engineering Project Manager, Rocklin Ca. Project Manager for VeriFone Development Center in which I was a major catalyst in implementing design procedures and improving design processes, as we moved VeriFone out of its entrepreneur design mentality into structured engineering practices. Worked closely with Marketing on the definition of new products. Built team from 10 to 21 Engineers in 18 months. Managed budgets ($2M), schedules, Capital forecasts, and Statements of Work. Improved Engineering Practices by:

Establishing Cross Functional Detail Designs Reviews at Rocklin, CA Facility.

Championing Production Readiness Check List.

Establishing clear PCB layout design practices, to eliminate ESD and EMI issues.

Lead Team through ISO 9001 Certification. Additional Major role: working with Marketing and Engineering in the definition of the following

POS terminals: the Omni 1450, the Omni 1220, the Omni 3500, the Omni 1460, the RF250, RF350, and Omni 3100 POS terminals.

Managed/ co-managed the following POS terminals projects--Omni Modem 100, SC250, SC225, Omni 1250, Omni 1240, Omni 1220, Omni 1450, Omni 1460, Omni, RF 250, RF 350 and Omni 3200M. (Mag Card, Smart Card and modem interfaces were critical building blocks in these products. )

Championed FPGA's and ASIC’s starting with the Jaguar (mag card reader/ power supervisor chip) and the system chip ASIC, which was a major objective I had set when I joined VeriFone.

Managed Sustaining issues on the Petro Products. Also Consulted with Petro on a regular basis to brainstorm the development of new products.

Designed Solutions for security issues for credit, debit, and smart card terminals. Led Wireless team : Designed/ proposed various wireless terminals for Mobitex, GSM, CDPD,

CDMA, Bluetooth, WWAN and WLAN applications.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS: Electrical Design Engineer/ Systems Manager

Project Design Manager/Engineer for Notebook Computer Options, Temple, TX Managed engineering team of eight employees, budgets ($1.5M), schedules, capital forecasts, and statements of work; as well as some individual design effort Managed design of three Docking Stations designs for the TM5000 Pentium notebook line and

major sub-assemblies for the notebook family. Grew project from original revamp of troubled Docking Station design.)

Responsible for Product Definition in tandem with Marketing, Production, and Service. Designed to Cost Analysis resulting in cost reduction plans Docking Stations by 20 %. Designed architecture for future Docking Stations. Individual contribution work before taking on the management role:

Wrote simulation scripts to debug and test ASIC while Managing the ASIC design. Redesigned an older design ASIC for a cost reduction with added functions. Designed Multimedia/PCMCIA printed wiring board (PWB) for TM5000 notebook. Researched NTSC, PAL, and S-Video for T.V. interface to Notebook Computers.

Research Team Manager, Corporate Ventures, Dallas, TX Built and Managed research team consisting of seven electrical engineers and technicians for

a major research investment of DLP( Digital Light Projector) chip application. Coordinated software algorithms and electronic architecture development for prototype design. Designed infrared programmable drive circuit in parallel with management duties. Participated at a high level on Product Definition, contributing my market experience in

Printers, Displays and the consumer market in general. Electrical Project Engineering Manager, Temple, TX Managed an engineering team of 9 electrical and 2 mechanical engineers in MicroLaser Laser

Printer design and development. Also as individual contributor in parallel to management duties, designed the ASIC for the

MicroLaser Laser Printer which including the system memory arbitration circuit to comprehend various banks and sizes of DRAM, system ROM, font ROM, and Font Cartridges.

Team leader for product definition working with Marketing, Production, and Service. Managed Turbo upgrade board for the MicroLaser. Management included: Design reviews, manpower analysis, schedules, capital forecast, and

statements of work. Electrical Design Engineer for Laser Printers, Temple, TX

Designed controllers/engine interface circuits for Texas Instruments initial laser printer offerings. Designed memory management ASIC’s to enable the use of the GSP processors (tms34010) in laser printer. Electrical Design Engineer for Impact Printers, Houston, TX Developed Open Loop Stepper Motor Algorithms used in TI 850/855 printers. Designed printhead drive circuits. Obtained patent on new printhead design circuit. Designed a 100 kHz switching power supply. Worked with vendors to customize motors. PCB Test Section Manager for Terminals and Peripherals, Houston, TX Coordinated all PCB functional and incircuit tests for the Terminals and Peripherals. Studied benefits of Signature Analysis tools. Managed capital forecasts, material expenses, statements of work, and manpower forecasts. Managed a team of seven electrical and software engineers and technicians. This team developed in-circuit and functional test for the 940 Intelligent Terminal and the Silent 767 Portable Terminal. System Test Engineer for Terminals and Peripherals, Houston, TX Applied the use of vision robots for print quality inspection. Designed two modem testers, an automated keyboard tester, a monitor tester, and a computer terminal exerciser. Designs included hardware, software, and debugging.

Publications: (chronological order).

1. A. Douce, W. Gaskins, D. Rosendaht, W. Miller, “New Power IC Regulates Electromagnetic Load Flux”, Powertechics, Feb 1998.

2. H. Hassan, A. El-Baz, A. A. Farag, A. Farman, D. Tazman, M. Miller, “A Complete Volumetric 3D Model of the Human Jaw,” Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), Berlin, Germany, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 1244-1249.

3. El-Baz, R. Fahmi, S. Esen Yuksel, A. A. Farag, W. Miller, M. Abou El-Ghar, T. Eldiasty, “A New CAD System for the Evaluation of Kidney Diseases Using DCE-MRI.,” Proc. Of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'06), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, pp. 446-453.

4. H. Rara, S. Elhabian, Asem Ali, T. Gault, M. Miller, T. Starr, and A. Farag, “A Framework for Long Distance Face Recognition using Dense- and Sparse-Stereo Reconstruction,” 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC09), Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

5. H. Rara, S. Elhabian, A. Ali, M. Miller, T. Starr, and A. Farag, “Distant Face Recognition Based On Sparse Stereo Reconstruction,” 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Nov. 7 – Nov. 10, 2009, Cairo, Egypt.

6. H. Rara, S. Elhabian, A. Ali, M. Miller, T. Starr, and A. A. Farag, "Face recognition at a distance based on sparse-stereo reconstruction, " IEEE CVPR Biometrics Workshop, 2009.

7. A Ali, M. Miller, T. Starr, and A. Farag, “Passive Stereo-based 3D Human Face Reconstruction

at a Distance,” Technical Report, 4 pages, CVIP Lab, Univ. of Louisville, January, 2010.

8. Ham Rara, Shireen Elhabian, Asem Ali, Mike Miller, Thomas Starr, and Aly Farag, "Face Recognition at-a-Distance using Texture and Sparse-Stereo Reconstruction," Proc. of IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), pp. 1221-1224, 2010.

9. Aly A. Farag, Dongqing Chen, Hossam Abdelmunim, Ross Pusateri, Mike Miller, Allan Farman, David Tasman, “Building a Discriminative Dental Database for Dental Image Analysis,” Proc. of 2011Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, CARS, 2011.

10. Aly Abdelrehim, Mostafa Abderahman, Hossam Abdelmunim, Aly Farag, and Mike Miller, "Novel Image-Based 3D Reconstruction of the Human Jaw using Shape from Shading and Feature Descriptors,'' The 22nd British Machine Vision Conference, (BMVC), vol. 41, pp. 1-11, Aug 2011.

11. Hossam Abdelmunim, D. Chen, Aly A. Farag, R. Pusateri, C. Carter, M. Miller, A. Farman, D. Tasman, “A 3d human teeth database construction based on a point-based shape registration”, Proc. Of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2011.