I am a senior undergraduate Optical Sciences & Engineering and Electrical Engineering student at the University of Arizona.

Employment:

Imaging Technology Laboratory :: University of Arizona, Steward Observatory :: http://www.itl.arizona.edu/

• Electrical Engineering / Optical Sciences Student Intern :: Research Internship

Artificial Intelligence Lab :: University of Arizona, Management Information Systems :: http://ai.arizona.edu/

• Electrical Engineering Research Assistant :: Student Employee :: Technical Design

MOTESS-GNAT Variable Star Survey :: http://www.egnat.org

• Participant, Coder :: Porting IRAF/C data pipeline to PyRAF

Research:

My current research pursuits involve:

• Spherical and aspherical plastic deformation of silicon for enhanced focal plane matching (petzval surface) and 3rd order aberration correction in high resolution CCDs.
• Detection, characterization of variable stars using PyRAF in the GNAT data pipeline project.
• Characterization of CCD surface structure anomalies and phenomena.
• Applications of new low-power, low-heat chipset designs for use in guider camera computers (Intel Atom), solid state drives in environments hostile to normal hard drives.
• Keyword searching for terrorism/cyber-warfare purposes.
• Web spidering, spidered collection and subsequent storage design, research poster design :: WMD Intent Poster, Dark Web Poster (PDFs)
• Twitter spidering (using gardenhose API) and analysis.

Interests:

My interests are varied, but are similarly aligned with my other pursuits.

• Digital Photography / Optoelectronics (CCD/CMOS)
• Wireless networks (3G handset design, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, RF networks and antenna design.
• Network security and penetration testing (security auditing, informational awareness hardening, cyberwarfare, cyberterror, botnets, e.t.c.)

Languages:

• HTML, C, Matlab, Python, ASM, Verilog, , others.

Contact Me:

• Email: bri...@brianklug.org (Help translate some books for reCAPTCHA and get my email address)
• Twitter: nerdtalker