{myUTSA ID: zjo970: Mathematics} Dr. Walter B. Richardson, Jr. Professor The University of Texas at San Antonio
Department of Mathematics Work Phone: (210) 458-4760 College of Sciences Email: [email protected] The University of Texas at San Antonio Web Address: zeta.math.utsa.edu/~zjo970 One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics, University of North Texas
Master of Science, Mathematics, University of Houston
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Southwest Texas State University
Academic Positions
1999 - Present Professor of Mathematics, UTSA
1993 - 1998 Associate Professor of Mathematics, UTSA
1989 - 1993 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UTSA
1988 - 1989 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aerospace Engineering Department, UT Austin
SCHOLARSHIP/RESEARCH/CREATIVE WORKS Intellectual Contributions
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New - Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
1997 2. Richardson, W.B. (1997). Chapter 20: Wavelets Applied to Mammograms. In Metin Akay (Eds.), Time Frequency and Wavelets in Biomedical Signal Processing (pp. 499-516). New York: IEEE Press.
1994 1. Richardson, W.B. (1994). A Reaction-Diffusion System Modeling Phosphorus Diffusion. In A. Friedman and W. Willard, Series Eds., W. M. Coughran, Jr., Julian Cole, Peter Lloyd, and Jacob K. White, Eds. (Eds.), Semiconductors, Part I - The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications (vol. 58, pp. 67-77). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Book, Reference - Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
1996 1. Carey, G.F., Richardson, W.B., Reed, C.S., Mulvaney, B.J. (1996). Circuit, Device, and Process Simulation: Mathematical and Numerical Aspects. (pp. 425). New York: John Wiley \& Sons.
Journal Article, Academic Journal - Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
2019 17. Richardson, W.B., Canadillas, D., Moncada, A., Guerrero-Lemus, R., Shephard, L.E., Vega-Avila, R., Krishnaswami, H. (2019). Validation of all-sky imager technology and solar irradiance forecasting at 3 locations: NREL, San Antonio, TX, and the Canary Islands, Spain. Applied Sciences - MDPI, 9(4), 32. www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci
2018 16. Moncada, A., Richardson, W.B., Vega-Avila, R. (2018). Deep Learning to Forecast Solar Irradiance Using a Six-Month UTSA SkyImager Dataset. Energies - MDPI, 11. www.mdpi.com/journal/energies
2017 15. Richardson Jr., W., Krishnaswami, H., Vega, R., Cervantes, M. (2017). A low cost, edge computing, all-sky imager for cloud tracking and intra-hour irradiance forecasting. Sustainability/MDPI, 12. www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability)
2008 14. Richardson, W.B. (2008). Sobolev gradient preconditioning for image processing PDEs. Commun. Numer. Meth. Engng., 24, 493-504.
2006 13. Carey, G.F., Richardson, W.B. (2006). A note on least squares methods. Commun. Numer. Meth. Engng., 22(2), 83-92.
2005 12. Richardson, W.B. (2005). High-order Sobolev preconditioning. Nonlinear Analysis, 63, e1779-e1787.
2004 11. Richardson, W.B., Pardhanani, A.L., Carey, G.F., Ardelea, A. (2004). Numerical effects in the simulation of Ginzburg-Landau models for superconductivity.
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International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 59, 1251-1272.
2000 10. Ardelea, A., Carey, G.F., Pardhanani, A., Richardson, W.B. (2000). Simulation of Macroscopic Superconductivity for Microelectronics. Physica C: Superconductivity, 341-348(Part 4), 2649-2650. 9. Richardson, W.B. (2000). Sobolev Preconditioning for the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 181, 425-436. 8. Richardson, W.B. (2000). Steepest Descent using Smooth Gradients. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, 112, 241-254.
1999 7. Richardson, W.B. (1999). Mathematical Aspects of Semiconductor Modeling. Nonlinear Studies, 6(2), 231-240. 6. Richardson, W.B. (1999). Sobolev Gradient Preconditioning for PDE Applications. Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation IV, IMACS Series in Computational and Applied Mathematics, 5, 223-234.
1992 5. Richardson, W.B., Carey, G.F., Mulvaney, B.J. (1992). Modeling Phosphorus Diffusion in Three Dimensions. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 11(4), 487-496.
1990 4. Mulvaney, B.J., Richardson, W.B. (1990). The Effect of Concentration Dependent Defect Recombination Reactions on Phosphorus Diffusion in Silicon. Journal of Applied Physics, 67(6), 3197-3199.
1989 3. Richardson, W.B. (1989). Comments on 'Sufficient Conditions for Existence and Diffeomorphism of a Nonlinear Vector Function'. Proceedings of the IEEE, 77(3), 496-497. 2. Richardson, W.B., Mulvaney, B.J. (1989). Nonequilibrium behavior of charged point defects during phosphorus diffusion in silicon. Journal of Applied Physics, 8(4), 2243-2247. 1. Mulvaney, B.J., Richardson, W.B., Crandle, T.L. (1989). PEPPER - A Process Simulator for VLSI. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 8(4), 336-349.
Conference Proceeding - Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
2019 4. Richardson, W.B., Seshadri, S.S. (2019). Cyber-physical resiliency for islanded microgrids. (pp. 6). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES).
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2017 3. Richardson, W.B., Krishnaswami, H., Shephard, L.E., Vega, R. (2017). Machine Learning versus Ray-Tracing to Forecast Irradiance for an Edge-Computing SkyImager. Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (ISAP), 2017 19th International Conference on. 2. Cañadillas, D., Richardson Jr., W.B., González-Díaz, B., Shephard, L.E., Guerrero Lemus, R. (2017). First Results of a Low Cost All-Sky Imager for Cloud Tracking and Intra-Hour Irradiance Forecasting serving a PV-based Smart Grid in La Graciosa Island. (pp. 5). IEEE PVSC-44.
2016 1. Cervantes, M., Krishnaswami, H., Richardson, W.B., Vega-Avila, R. (2016). Utilization of Low Cost, Sky-Imaging Technology for Irradiance Forecasting of Distributed Solar Generation. IEEE GreenTech. (Presented)
Technical Report - Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
2017 1. Richardson, W.B., Shephard, L.E., Dong, B. (2017). NREL Integrate: RCS -4-42326: Topic Area 3 OpenFMB Reference Architecture Demonstration Final Report. (pp. 176). Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory / Omnetric-Siemens.
Technical Report - Not Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
2019 9. Richardson, W.B. (2019). CPS Energy - Year 2, Quarter 4, Technical Report. 8. Richardson, W.B. (2019). CPS Energy - Year 2, Quarter 3, Technical Report. 7. Richardson, W.B. (2019). CPS Energy - Year 2, Quarter 2, Technical Report.
2018 6. Richardson, W.B., Shephard, L.E. (2018). CPS Energy - Year 2, Quarter 1, Technical Report. 5. Richardson, W.B., Shephard, L.E. (2018). CPS Energy - Fourth Quarter Technical Report. 4. Richardson, W.B., Shephard, L.E., Lemus, R., Canadillas, D., Moncada, A., Esquivel, J., Jafary, M. (2018). CPS Energy - Final Deliverables Report for Year 1. 3. Richardson, W.B., Shephard, L.E. (2018). CPS Energy - Third Quarter Technical Report. 2. Richardson, W.B., Shephard, L.E. (2018). CPS Energy - Second Quarter Technical Report.
2017 1. Richardson, W.B., Shephard, L.E. (2017). CPS Energy - First Quarter Technical
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Report.
Intellectual Property
Copyright
2017 1. Richardson, W. B., Krishnaswami, H., Vega-Avila, R., & Cervantes, M. NREL Python Source Code for Raspberry-Pi and Odroid SBC. Board of Regents, The University of Texas System.
Patent
2017 2. Richardson, W. B., Krishnaswami, H., Vega-Avila, R., & Cervantes, M. DISTRIBUTED SOLAR ENERGY PREDICTION IMAGING.2015.033.UTSA (292007-8160), LeapTran, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System.
2016 1. Richardson, W. B., Vega-Avila, R. E., Krishnaswami, H., & Cervantes, M. Low-cost superimager to map, forecast and publish distributed solar energy predictions.2015.033.UTSA (292007-8160).
Contracts, Fellowships, Grants, Sponsored Research and Residencies
Grant - Funded
2015 1. Richardson, W. B., "Intelligent Energy Systems Research Program, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Rolando Vega, Lead PD/PI, 0.00%; Les Shephard, Co-PD/PI, 100.00%; Walter Richardson, Co-PD/PI, 0.00%; Hariharan Krishnaswami, Co-PD/PI, 0.00%; Bing Dong, Co-PD/PI, 0.00%; Hongjie Xie,," Sponsored by City Public Svc, $467,974.00. (February 1, 2014 - January 31, 2015).
Grant - Not Funded
2019 4. Richardson, W. B., "AMPS: Modeling Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification for Power Electronics Based Power Systems, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Sara Ahmed, Lead PD/PI, 50.00%; Hariharan Krishnaswami, Co-PD/PI, 25.00%; Walter Richardson, Co-PD/PI, 25.00%," Sponsored by Natl Science Fdn, $236,736.00. (September 1, 2017 - August 31, 2019).
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2017 3. Richardson, W. B., "NRT-DESE: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN DATA ENABLED SMART ENERGY (DESE) SYSTEMS, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Hariharan Krishnaswami, Lead PD/PI, 30.00%; Nicole Beebe, Co-PD/PI, 15.00%; Walter Richardson, Co-PD/PI, 15.00%; Les Shephard, Other, 10.0," Sponsored by Natl Science Fdn, $2,999,899.00. (September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2017). 2. Richardson, W. B., "Active power control of a solar plant using superresolution sky imaging, feature-based cloud advection models and PV array power forecast, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Hariharan Krishnaswami, Lead PD/PI, 34.00%; Walter Richardson, Co-PD/PI, 33.00%; Rolando V," Sponsored by Natl Science Fdn, $281,419.00. (June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2017).
2016 1. Richardson, W. B., "NRT-DESE: Collaborative Research and Training in Data Enabled Smart Energy Systems, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Hariharan Krishnaswami, Lead PD/PI, 20.00%; Nicole Beebe, Co-PD/PI, 10.00%; Afamia Elnakat, Co-PD/PI, 10.00%; Walter Richardson, Co-PD/PI, 10.00%," Sponsored by Natl Science Fdn, $2,999,255.00. (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016).
Grant - Pending
2016 1. Richardson, W. B., "Modeling Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Fractional Order Operators, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Walter Richardson, Lead PD/PI, 95.00%; Ronald Bagley, Other, 5.00%," Sponsored by Univ of TX System 720, $99,945.00. (June 1, 2015 - June 1, 2016).
Contract - Not Funded
2020 1. Richardson, W. B. (Principal), & Koets, M. (Co-Principal), "Developing Quantum Algorithms and Hardware Simulation Capability for Quantum Emulation Devices," Sponsored by UTSA - Southwest Research Institute, $124,892.00. (September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020).
Contract - Funded - Do not transmit
2019 1. Richardson, W. B., "Using machine learning to improve intra-hour prediction of solar irradiance and ramp events in the CPS microgrid at JBSA, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Walter Richardson, Lead PD/PI, 50.00%; Les Shephard, Co-PD/PI, 50.00%," Sponsored by City Public Svc, $216,633.00. (September 1, 2017 - August 31, 2019).
Cooperative Agreement - Not Funded
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2017 1. Richardson, W. B., "Retention and Advancement towards Program completion through Innovatively Designed (RAPID) student-centered engineering support services, PIs/Co-PIs&SHARED CREDIT: Hariharan Krishnaswami, Lead PD/PI, 50.00%; Mehdi Shadaram, Co-PD/PI, 20.00%; Walter Richar," Sponsored by US Dept of Educ, $3,408,791.00. (October 1, 2016 - September 1, 2017).
Presentations
Invited Talk - Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
2016 4. Richardson, Jr., W. B. (Author & Presenter), & Vega, R. (Author), "The UTSA Sky-Imager," SMALLGRID Conference, Universidad de La Laguna, Canary Islands. (June 13, 2016).
2011 3. Richardson, W. B., "Sobolev Gradients for Imaging Applications," International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Vancouver. (July 2011). (Accepted) 2. Richardson, W. B., "Sobolev Gradient Descent in H1,p , p ≠2," US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM), Minneapolis. (July 2011). (Accepted)
2004 1. Richardson, W. B., Legacy of R. L. Moore Conference, Austin. (2004).
Paper - Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
2019 22. Richardson, W. B. (Author & Presenter), & Seshadri, S. (Author), "Cyber-physical resiliency for islanded microgrids," IEEE Resilience Week 2019, Idaho National Labs and UTSA, San Antonio. (November 6, 2019). (Completed)
2006 21. Richardson, W. B., IS06 - SIAM Conference on Imaging Science. (2006).
2005 20. Richardson, W. B., 8th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics, Austin. (2005).
2004 19. Richardson, W. B., World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando. (2004).
2003
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18. Richardson, W. B., SIAM Conference on the Geosciences, Austin. (2003).
2000 17. Richardson, W. B., 6th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors (M2S-HTSC-VI), Houston. (2000).
1999 16. Richardson, W. B., AMS Sectional Meeting, Austin. (1999). 15. Richardson, W. B., Joint AMS-SMM Meeting, Denton, Texas. (1999). 14. Richardson, W. B., SIAM Conference on the Geosciences, San Antonio. (1999).
1998 13. Richardson, W. B., IMACS Conference, Austin. (1998).
1996 12. Richardson, W. B., Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, UT Austin. (1996).
1994 11. Richardson, W. B., Interface '94 Applications of Wavelets, Research Triangle. (1994). 10. Richardson, W. B., Invited Talk on PDE Filters and Wavelets, NASA Lewis. (1994). 9. Richardson, W. B., Least Squares Finite Element Conference, NASA Lewis. (1994).
1993 8. Richardson, W. B., SPIE Special Session on Digital Image Processing in Mammography, San Jose. (1993).
1992 7. Richardson, W. B., SIAM 40th Anniversary Meeting, Los Angeles. (1992). 6. Richardson, W. B., SPIE Conference on Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging, San Diego. (1992). 5. Richardson, W. B., Wavelets and Applications Conference, Toulouse, France. (1992). 4. Richardson, W. B., World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Tampa. (1992).
1991 3. Richardson, W. B., NASECODE VII Conference (Semiconductor Modeling), Copper Mountain. (1991). 2. Richardson, W. B., Texas PDE Conference, San Marcos. (1991).
1990 1. Richardson, W. B., Texas Partial Differential Equations Conference, Arlington.
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(1990).
Invited Talk - Not Peer-Reviewed/Refereed
2019 12. Richardson, W. B. (Author & Presenter), "Machine Learning to Improve Solar Forecasting," CPS Project Showcase 2017 - 2019, CPS Energy - TSERI, Regents Room, Main Building, UTSA. (September 13, 2019). (Completed) 11. Richardson, W. B. (Author & Presenter), Kelley, B. (Author & Presenter), Prevost, J. J. (Author), Grigoryan, A. (Author), Ayon, A. A. (Author), Frederick, J. H. (Author), Xu, S. (Author), & Ahn, E. C. (Author), "Quantum Cluster Hire Proposal (CCP)," Cluster Hire Proposal Competition, Provost's Office, Faculty Center - UTSA. (May 15, 2019). (Completed) 10. Richardson, W. B. (Author & Presenter), "How do we teach our students quantum?," Scott Aaronson (UT Quantum Information Center) Visit to UTSA, UTSA - VPREDKE, COS, COEng, Faculty Center. (March 8, 2019). (Completed) 9. Richardson, W. B. (Author & Presenter), "UNITARY MATRICES: PCA, RMT, QIS, BIG DATA, DEEP LEARNING," American Statistical Association - Student Chapter, Statistics Department, UTSA, Business Building, UTSA. (February 28, 2019). (Completed) 8. Richardson, W. B. (Author & Presenter), "UTSA Energy Future 2019," Next-Generation Energy Technologies & Efficient Resource Uses: SACIV, TSERI - US Dept of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), AET Building, Main Campus. (October 31, 2019). (Completed) 7. Richardson, W. B. (Author & Presenter), "UTSA Sky-Imager & Solar Forecasting," Swiss-US Energy Innovation Days 2019, Austin-San Antonio, Swiss Government, Durango Building, UTSA and Southwest Research Institute. (October 8, 2019). (Completed)
2018 6. Richardson, W. B., Prevost, J. J., Kelley, B., & Grigoryan, A., "Summary of Research related to Quantum Computing," Meeting with Sandia National Laboratories Cyber Group, UTSA Quantum Informatics Group, UTSA. (November 28, 2018). 5. Richardson, W. B., "Challenges in Modeling the Smart Grid and Deep Learning to Forecast Solar Irradiance," UTSA Statistics Seminar, UTSA Department of Statistics, San Antonio, Texas. (November 9, 2018). 4. Richardson, W. B., "Solar Forecasting: Deep Learning to Analyze UTSA SkyImager Datasets," University of the Incarnate Word, College of Sciences, San Antonio, Texas. (October 10, 2018).
2017 3. Richardson, W. B., & Shephard, L. E., "Using machine learning to improve intra-hour prediction of solar irradiance and ramp events in the CPS microgrid at JBSA," CPS Energy 6-min Concept Paper Presentation, CPS Energy, UTSA. (May 11, 2017).
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2. Richardson, W. B., "Using machine learning to improve intra-hour prediction of solar irradiance and ramp events in the CPS microgrid at JBSA," CPS Energy Presentation Downtown Post-Award, CPS Energy, CPS Energy Headquarters Bldg Downtown. (September 7, 2017). 1. Richardson, W. B., "UTSA SkyImager - CPS Microgrid," CPS Energy Micro-Grid Demonstration, CPS Energy, San Antonio. (May 9, 2017).
TEACHING
Directed Student Learning
Dissertation Committee Member, "Data Communication Systems: Development and Analysis of Integrated Systems and Methods for enhancing mobility." In-Process, (December 10, 2019 - Present). Advised: Devasena Inupakutika
Dissertation Committee Member, "Software-defined Methods for Positioning Using Existing Wireless Infrastructures." Proposal, (November 2018 - Present). Advised: Erick Schmidt
RA Supervision. Completed, (June 3, 2019 - August 31, 2019). Advised: Sreenivas Seshadri
RA Supervision. Completed, (June 15, 2019 - August 15, 2019). Advised: Alexander Macris
RA Supervision. Completed, (June 15, 2019 - August 15, 2019). Advised: Curtis Lopez
RA Supervision. Completed, (September 1, 2017 - May 31, 2019). Advised: Ariana Moncada
RA Supervision. Completed, (September 1, 2018 - May 15, 2019). Advised: Christopher Ivone
Master's Thesis Committee Member, "SECURING THE INTERNET OF THINGS WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS." Completed, (May 30, 2018 - April 23, 2019). Advised: Luke Holbrook
Dissertation Committee Member, "MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTRICAL POWER NETWORKS." (June 1, 2017 - May 30, 2018). Advised: Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan
Dissertation Committee Member, "STUDYING SOLAR IRRADIANCE VARIABILITY
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AND SOLAR ENERGY USING GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE PRODUCTS AND GROUND MEASUREMENTS." Completed, (June 1, 2016 - May 1, 2018). Advised: Shuang Xia
Publications By Your Students (Without your authorship), "Intra-Hour Global Horizontal Irradiance Forecasting: A Deep Learning Approach." Completed, (October 19, 2017 - October 21, 2017). Advised: Ariana Moncada
Honors Thesis, "Intra-Hour Global Horizontal Irradiance Forecasting: A Deep Learning Approach." Completed, (May 15, 2017 - July 31, 2017). Advised: Ariana Moncada
Master's Non-Thesis Committee Member, "Utilization of Low Cost, Sky-Imaging Technology for Irradiance Forecasting of Distributed Solar Generation." Completed, (April 2015 - May 31, 2016). Advised: Michael Cervantes
Internship, "NUMERICAL MODELING OF TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION: MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS FOR THE BRAIN." Completed, (September 2014 - May 2015). Advised: Vince Velocci
Master's Thesis Committee Member, "INTRODUCTION TO UTSA-MS SMART IMAGER AND COMPARISION WITH TSI IMAGER TECHNOLOGY." Completed, (August 2013 - February 2015). Advised: Alejandro Camargo
RA Supervision, "INTRODUCTION TO UTSA-MS SMART IMAGER AND COMPARISION WITH TSI IMAGER TECHNOLOGY." Completed, (August 2013 - December 2014). Advised: Alejandro Camargo
Internship, "PCA, SVD, AND INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR DIMENSION REDUCTION AND FEATURE EXTRACTION USING ARTIFICAL NEURAL NETWORKS." Completed, (September 8, 2014 - December 10, 2014). Advised: Lu Zheng
Dissertation Committee Member, "PERIDYNAMIC BEAMS, PLATES, AND SHELLS: A NONORDINARY, STATE-BASED MODEL." Completed, (August 2013 - October 30, 2014). Advised: James O'Grady
Master's Thesis Committee Member, "ENHANCEMENT CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXY IMAGES." Completed, (June 2013 - August 15, 2014).
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Advised: John Jenkinson
Internship, "ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR SOLAR FORECASTING." Completed, (June 9, 2014 - August 12, 2014). Advised: Shindara Tan
Master's Thesis Committee Member, "SIX DEGREE OF FREEDOM POSE ESTIMATION USING DEPTH AND COLOR FEATURE DESCRIPTORS FOR AN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION." Completed, (August 2013 - April 22, 2014). Advised: Christina Gomez
Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Image Denoising using PDE Filters and Functional Minimization." (December 2006). Advised: Sean Beatty
Academic Advising
2017 - 2019 Advised 7 Graduate Students, 6 Undergraduate Students
Other Instructional Activities
2018 - 2019 Course Development, In September of 2018 I began working on notes for a Quantum Computing course in conjunction with my ongoing collaboration with the Quantum Informatics Group in ECE. This culminated in the MAT 5983 Topics in Appl Math - Quantum Computation course that I offered in Fall of 2019.
2018 Course Development, Taught course on Mathematical Challenges of the Smart Electric Grid - Solving the AC Optimal Power Flow ACOPF equations and Modeling design and operation of Microgrids. There were two students who took this independent study course: Dylan Willis and Richard Bragg (he took it in lieu of a company internship).
2018 Course Development, Taught Game Theory for the first time in Math Department. There were 4 Engineering, 1 Economics, and 5 AIM students in the class.
2018 Guest Lecture, MAA Student Chapter, Gave invited lecture: The Development of Three Integrals - those of Riemann, Stieltjes, and Hellinger - and their Applications
2018 Course Development, Taught Machine Learning and Data Analysis course for 3rd time. This is an important course that garners students not
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just from the AIM/math programs, but students from COS, COE, and COB.
SERVICE
Department Service
2019 Committee Member, DFRAC, UTSA.
2019 Committee Member, Mathematics of Computing Search Committee, UTSA.
2018 Committee Member, DFRAC.
2018 Committee Member, Annual Evaluation Committee, UTSA.
2017 Committee Member, DFRAC, UTSA.
2016 Committee Member, DFRAC, UT San Antonio.
2016 Faculty Advisor, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Student Chapter, UT San Antonio.
2016 Committee Member, Department CPER Committee 2016, UT San Antonio. Comprehensive Periodic Evaluation and Review of 4 faculty members in the department who were up for review.
2016 Committee Chair, NTT Faculty Evaluation Committee, UTSA. Provide Dept. Chair with faculty input regarding the annual NTT Faculty Evaluations. Other members: Carol Dyas and Priya Prasad.
2014 - 2015 Committee Member, Search Comittee for Dan Parman Endowed Chair in Applied Mathematics, UTSA. Search Committee is to help fill the position of the newly created Dan Parman Endowed Chair in Applied Mathematics.
2013 - 2014 Committee Chair, Search Committee, UTSA. Fill an Tenure Track position in Applied Mathematics with a specialization in biomathematics/neuroscience.
2012 - 2013 Committee Member, Mathematics Search Committee 2012-13, UTSA.
College Service
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2018 Attendee, Meeting, College of Sciences Student Research Conference, UTSA. Helped to organize the judging of the math statistics poster entries for the College of Sciences Student Research Conference held in October. I also served as a judge.
University Service
2019 - Present Committee Member, Quantum Computing Cluster Hire, UTSA.
2019 Attendee, Meeting, AI Summit, UTSA.
2018 - 2019 Committee Member, Statistics Search Committee - Cluster Hire in AI, UTSA. External member
2018 Attendee, Meeting, AI AND ANALYTICS NETWORKING LUNCHEON, UTSA. Attended luncheon with Ariana. Several CPS folks were present and they mentioned Ariana's Internship in the summer.
UT System Service
2017 - 2018 Copyright Holder: UTSA Sky Imager Software v1.0, Annual UTSA Innovation Awards Luncheon, UT System. Our SkyImager research was recognized by UTSA and we received Certificate of Registration (Txu 2-079-758) from United States Copyright Office, Title of Work: UTSA Sky Imager Software v1.0, Authors: Mike Cervantes, Rolando E Vega-Avila, Walter B Richardson, Hariharan Krishnaswami.
2018 Attendee, Convocation, Inauguration of Taylor Eighmy, UT System. Represented the University of North Texas (alma mater) at the inauguration of Taylor Eighmy as the sixth president of The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Professional Service
2019 - 2021 Editor, Journal Editor, MDPI Journal: Smart Cities, Basel. Asked to serve on Editorial Board for new MDPI Journal Smart Cities. Responsible for reviewing manuscripts and editing a special issue.
2019 - 2021 Editor, Journal Editor, MDPI Journal: AI, Basel. Asked to serve on Editorial Board for new MDPI Journal Artificial Intelligence. Responsible for reviewing manuscripts and editing a special issue.
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2019 - 2020 Reviewer, Journal Article, Elsevier Journal: Applied Mathematics and Computation.
2019 Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Office of Texas State Senator Menendez, San Antonio, TX. I was asked by Tomas Larralde, Chief of Staff for Texas Senator Jose Menendez to review a proposal by a Mr. Guo Li for funding a Solar Thermal Concentrator power generation plant. I stated the pros/cons of the technology which has been around for several decades. Went on to describe the peer review process at NSF, DOE, DoD, and even State research funding agencies. It was inappropriate for Guo Li to apply directly to the Senator Menendez's office for funding
2019 Reviewer, Journal Article, MDPI Publisher - Remote Sensing Journal, Basel.
2019 Reviewer, Book, CRC Press.
2018 Reviewer, Journal Article, MDPI Publisher - Energies Journal, Basel. Reviewed Article: "A multi-model power forecasting approach of PV plants considering seasonal characteristics" by Hu, Yu, Lian, Han, Dai, and Zhu. For details see Publons.
2017 Reviewer, Journal Article, MDPI Publisher - Journal Energies, Basel. Reviewed "Rotation invariance based displacement vector calculation method of cloud motion in sky images using phase correlation algorithm and centroid iteration" for Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). See Publons for documentation.
Public Service
2017 - 2018 Mentor for Ariana Moncada, CPS Energy Student Internship, San Antonio, TX. As a result of her work on the CPS Energy Grant and the Deep Learning research, Ariana received a summer internship with the Enterprise Analytics and Data Analysis group at CPS Energy.
Consulting
2017 For Profit Organization, LeapTran, San Antonio, Texas
Awards, Honors, and Biographical Listings
2019 Faculty Mentor of the Year, McNair Scholars Program - UTSA
Media Contributions
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2019 UTSA Today
2018 KLRN - PBS Station
2017 UTSA Today
2017 San Antonio Express-News
2017 UTSA VPResearch October Newletter
2016 Energy Business Review
Faculty Development Activities Attended
2019 Faculty Development Leave, Improved Intra-Hour Solar Forecasting for Today’s Smart Electric Grid, UTSA, San Antonio, TX
2019 Workshop, San Antonio Electromagnetic Defense Task Force, JBSA and UTSA, San Antonio, TX
2019 Workshop, ERCOT Market Summit - Executive Briefing, Electric Reliability Council Of Texas, Austin, TX
2017 Conference Attendance, SA Climate Ready: Planning for All, Now and Tomorrow, UTSA, CPS Energy, and the City of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2017 Conference Attendance, Big Data, Big Challenges Conference, UTSA, San Antonio, TX
2016 Workshop, Department of Energy VOLTRON, UTSA, San Antonio, TX
2016 Conference Attendance, UTeach Conference, UT Austin, Austin, TX
2016 Tutorial, Webinar: Mathematical Programming for the Solution of ACOPF (AC Optimal Power Flow), NSF, San Antonio, TX
2016 Conference Attendance, 2016 Texas FreshAIR Big Data & Data Analytics Conference, UT System, San Antonio, TX
2016 Workshop, NSFCloud Informational Session, Open Cloud Institute UTSA, San Antonio, TX
2014 Seminar, DISTRIBUTED ELECTRIC GRID ANALYTICS FOR THE GRID OF THE FUTURE, TSERI- UTSA and CPS Energy, San
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