Frank T. Ferrese, PhD, PE
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`Contact
`Information
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`FJT Technologies LLC
`414 First Avenue
`Haddon Heights, NJ 08035
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`Phone: (856) 924-4690
`E-mail: frank@fjttech.com
`Web: www.fjttech.com
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`Education
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`Villanova University, Villanova, PA USA
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`PhD, Engineering, May, 2013
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`Villanova University, Villanova, PA USA
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`M.S., Computer Engineering, May, 2006
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`Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA
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`B.S., Electrical Engineering, May, 1995
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`Areas of
`Expertise
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`Forensic Electrical Engineering
`• Electrical fires
`• Electrical shock and electrocution
`• Batteries related failures and fires
`• Appliances (dishwashers, heaters, boiler controls, refrigerators)
`• Vehicle fires
`• Residential electrical systems
`• Commercial / Manufacturing Plant / Municipal Electrical Systems
`• Lighting systems (incandescent, LED, high intensity discharge lamps, high pressure discharge
`lamps, low pressure discharge lamps)
`• Emergency generators
`• Communication systems
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`Patent and Intellectual Property Consulting
`• Intellectual property / Patents involving electrical systems and circuits
`• Support the preparation of Inter Partes Review and Petitions
`• Preparation of declarations
`• Prior art identification
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`Consulting
`• Statistical Analysis
`• Emergency Generator Sizing
`• National Electrical Code Compliance
`• Circuit Design
`• System Design and Analysis
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`Example Projects
`• Design and construction oversight for an emergency generator system at a municipal building
`• Forensic engineering and failure analysis of a lighting system at an intersection where a pedes-
`trian was struck by a vehicle
`• Forensic engineering and failure analysis for a solar panel installation where the failure to
`properly follow the National Electrical Code and proper installation methods resulted in a
`residential fire
`• Hardware and software design for autonomous operation of electrical distribution, HVAC,
`chiller water distribution, propulsion, high pressure air distribution and steering for a fleet of
`unmanned ships for the U.S. Navy
`• Testing and analysis of residential wiring systems that were subject to electrical surges as a
`result of shorts on electrical distribution lines
`• Design of test fixtures and testing of pump control equipment for residential septic systems
`• Failure analysis of lithium ion batteries as potential cause for fires (numerous cases)
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`Professional
`Experience
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`FJT Technologies LLC, Haddon Heights, NJ USA
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`President / Forensic and Consulting Electrical Engineer
`Technical Responsibilities
`• Electrical device and/or system failure analysis
`• Power System failure analysis
`• Cause and Origin of electrical fires
`• Preparation of forensic engineering reports
`• System requirements analysis
`• Prior art searches
`• Preparation of Inter Partes Reviews and Declarations
`• Support for depositions
`• Testify as an electrical engineering expert witness
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`2013 - Present
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`Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD), Philadelphia, PA USA
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`Lead Research Engineer for Advanced Control and Autonomy Systems February, 2005 - Present
`Technical Responsibilities
`• Develop optimal control methods for reactive power control
`• Control system and communication system development for 1 Megawatt AC/DC generation,
`distribution and power conversion laboratory
`• Shipboard power system and Microgrid modeling, analysis, and control system development
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`• Research and development of advanced methods of control for distributed electrical and fluid
`distribution systems
`• Analysis, modeling and simulation of electrical power system components and systems
`• Hardware in the loop simulation and experiment design for power systems
`• Control system design for machinery systems on unmanned vehicles
`• Communication system design
`• Circuit design, power electronic controller design and development
`• Power system stability analysis
`• Founder and Director of the Controls, Autonomy, and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
`• Provide subject matter expertise to organizations such as the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
`and Advanced Research Projects - Energy (ARPA-E), and Defense Advanced Research Agency
`(DARPA) in the areas of control theory, computational intelligence, dynamic system modeling,
`hybrid systems
`• Design and construction of hardware in the loop controls experiments for verification and
`validation of advanced control methodologies
`• Cyber security for military power and control systems
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`Lead Engineer for Navigation and Steering Control Systems March 2004 - September, 2005
`• Design, installation, and support of shipboard navigation and control systems
`• Developed specifications for navigation, steering control, and propulsion control systems for
`various US Navy ship classes
`• Developed verification and validation tests for shipboard industrial control systems
`• Developed hardware and software systems for steering and navigation
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`Engineering Manager - Navigation and Steering Controls Section November 2000 - March 2004
`Manager for a section of 17 engineers, technicians, and support personnel working on programs
`related to navigation and steering control systems
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`March 2000 - October 2000
`Lead Engineer LPD-17 Ship Control System
`Lead engineer for LPD-17 class new construction Ship Control System (SCS) during the design,
`development and land based testing of the SCS
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`Computational Systems Incorporated, Essington, PA USA
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`April 1999 - March 2000
`Senior Consultant
`Consultant to major firms such as Xerox and Owens Corning in the area of Reliability Centered
`Maintenance programs for large production facilities
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`Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Philadelphia, PA USA
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`November 1997 - March 1999
`Integrated Condition Assessment System Project Manager
`Responsible for the technical direction of the Integrated Condition Assessment System program,
`which is a software based monitoring and analysis system for machinery equipment condition
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`March 1992 - October 1997
`Submarine Antenna Systems Project Engineer
`Supported the design, installation, and life cycle support of submarine antenna systems
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`Publications
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`Books
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`Distributed Control of Heterogeneous Systems, Dr. Frank Ferrese, ISBN-10:3659237868,
`Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013
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`Journal and Conference Papers
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`1. Synchrony in Networked Microgrids under Attacks Abhinav, Shankar and Modares,
`Hamidreza and Lewis, Frank L and Ferrese, Frank and Davoudi, Ali (2017) IEEE Transactions
`on Smart Grid
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`2. Optimization based AC Microgrid Synchronization Abhinav, Shankar and Schizas,
`Ioannis D and Ferrese, Frank and Davoudi, Ali (2017) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Infor-
`matics
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`3. Energy Saving in Microgrid with Tree Configurations using Nash Bargaining So-
`lution Ren, Q., Bai L., Biswas S., & Ferrese, F. (2016)Resilient Control Systems, IEEE
`Symposium on, 2016
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`4. Online Optimal Generation Control Based on Constrained Distributed Gradient
`Algorithm Zhang, W., Xu, Y., Liu, W., Liu, L., & Ferrese, F. (2015)Power Systems, IEEE
`Transactions on, Volume 30, Issue 1
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`5. Distributed Subgradient-Based Coordination of Multiple Renewable Generators
`in a Microgrid Zhang, W., Xu, Y., Liu, W., Ferrese, F., & Liu, L. (2014)Power Systems,
`IEEE Transactions on, Volume 29, Issue 1
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`6. Distributed Fuzzy Logic Price Negotiation in Market Based Multi-Agent Control
`Thibodeau, B., Qiangguo, R., Li Bai, Ferrese, F. Biswas, S., & Dong, Q. (2013) Resilient
`Control Systems, IEEE Symposium on, 2013
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`7. Fully Distributed Coordination of Multiple DFIGs in a Microgrid for Load Shar-
`ing Zhang, W., Xu, Y., Liu, W., Ferrese, F., & Liu, L. (2013) Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions
`on, Volume 4, Issue 2
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`8. Market-based resource allocation for distributed data processing in wireless sensor
`networks Zimmerman, Andrew T., Jerome P. Lynch, and Frank T. Ferrese ACM Transac-
`tions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) 12.3 (2013): 84.
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`9. Multiagent-Based Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch
`Xu, Y. and Zhang, W. and Liu, W. and Ferrese, F. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C:
`Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on, Volume 42, Number 6, 2012
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`10. Resilient consensus control for linear systems in a noisy environment Biswas, S. and
`Ferrese, F. and Dong, Q. and Bai, L. American Control Conference (ACC), 2012
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`11. Adaptive Neural replication and resilient control despite malicious attacks Giorgi,
`S. and Saleheen, F. and Ferrese, F. and Won, C.H. IEEE Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS),
`2012 5th International Symposium on 2012
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`12. Multiagent-Based Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch
`Xu, Y. and Zhang, W. and Liu, W. and Ferrese, F. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C:
`Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on, Volume 42, Number 6, 2012
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`13. Resiliency of linear system consensus in the presence of channel noise Ferrese, F.
`and Biswas, S. and Dong, Q. and Bai, L. Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS), 2012 5th Inter-
`national Symposium on
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`14. Cooperative Federated Control with Application to Tracking Control Ferrese, F.
`and Dong, Q. and Bradshaw, K. and Chaves, S. and Biswas, S. and Bai, L. IEEE 13th Inter-
`national Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2011
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`15. Cooperative Federated Multi-Agent Control of Large-Scale Systems Dong, Q. and
`Bradshaw, K. and Ferrese, F. and Bai, L. and Biswas, S. Control and Applications, 2011
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`16. Optimal Feedback Control of Power Systems Using Eigenstructure Assignment
`and Particle Swarm Optimization Ferrese, F.; Dong, Q.; Biswas, S; Nataraj, C; Naval
`Engineering Journal, Volume 123 Number 1, 2011
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`17. Design of a Reliable Distributed Secure Database System Bai, L. and Biswas, S. and
`Ferrese, F. Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), 2010 IEEE Fifth International Con-
`ference on
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`18. Market Based Computational Task Assignment with Autonomous Wireless Sen-
`sor Networks Zimmerman, A; Lynch, J; Ferrese, F; Proceedings of IEEE 2009 International
`Conference on Electro/Information Technology
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`19. Multi-Agent Based Interoperable Wireless Sensor Network Model Xiong, Bai, Fer-
`rese;
`Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Sensors Conference
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`20. Performance Analysis of Mobile Agent Based Wireless Sensor Network Bai, Ferrese,
`Ploskina, Biswas; 2009 8th International Conferecne on Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety
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`21. A Control System Test Bed for Demonstration of Distributed Computational In-
`telligence Applied to Reconfiguring Heterogeneous Systems Srivastava, S.K.; Cartes,
`D.A.; Maturana, F.; Ferrese, F.; Pekala, M.; Zink, M.; Meeker, R.; Systems Conference, 2007
`1st Annual IEEE 9-13 April 2007 Page(s):1 - 8
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`22. Survivability Analysis of Reconfigurable Systems Bai, Li; Biswas, Saroj; Ortiz, Albert;
`Ferrese, Frank; Dalessandro, Don; Dong, Qing; Industrial Engineering and Engineering Man-
`agement, 2007 IEEE International Conference on 2-4 Dec. 2007 Page(s):663 - 667
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`23. Anti-Threat Mobile Agent Based Ship Freshwater Cooling System Lu, Yan; Ferrese,
`Frank; Labouliere, Mike; ASNE Ship Control Symposium Conference Proceedings, 2007
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`24. An Architecture for Shipboard Auxiliary System of Systems Simulation and Test-
`ing Brown, Kevin; Ferrese, Frank; Zink, Mike; Longo, Don; ASNE Ship Control Symposium
`Conference Proceedings, 2007
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`25. Recent Developments In U.S. Navy Navigation Systems Ferrese, Frank; Naval Forces
`ISSN 0722-8880 VI 2002
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`26. Implementation of Shipboard Data Into Maintenance Decisions Ferrese, Frank; Sav-
`age, Chris; ASNE Intelligent Ships Symposium III Conference Proceedings 1999
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`Academic /
`Teaching
`Experience
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`Temple University - Graduate Adjunct Faculty
`• Courses: Engineering Analysis, Electrical Circuits and Devices, Modern Control Theory, Digital
`Control Theory, Cryptography, Hardware Security, Software Security, Probability and Statistics,
`JAVA Programming, Optimization Theory
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`Drexel University - Adjunct Faculty
`• Courses: Motor Controls
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`Villanova University- Adjunct Faculty (Online)
`• Courses: Autonomous Control, Electric Motor Drives, Cryptography, Optimization for Engineers
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`Southern New Hampshire University- Adjunct Faculty
`• Courses: Statistics, Calculus III, Linear Algebra
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Dr. Sachi Jayasuriya, Drexel University 2017
`• Thesis topic: Model-based and Data-driven Algorithms for Diagnostics of Nonlinear Dynamic
`Systems
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Dr. Mohsan Samadani, Villanova University 2017
`• Thesis topic: Model-based and Data-driven Algorithms for Diagnostics of Nonlinear Dynamic
`Systems
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Dr. Chukwuemeka Aduba, Temple University 2014
`• Thesis topic: N-Player Statistical Nash Game Control: M-th Cost Cumulant Optimization
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Dr. Michael Balchanos, Georgia Institute of Tech- nology
`2012
`• Thesis topic: An intelligent, knowledge-based multiple criteria decision making advisor for sys-
`tems design
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Dr. Matthew Hoepfer, Georgia Institute of Technol- ogy
`2012
`• Thesis topic: Towards a comprehensive framework for co-simulation of dynamic models with an
`emphasis on time stepping
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Dr. Qing Dong, Temple University 2011
`• Thesis topic: Feedback Control of Anti-swing Overhead Crane
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Mr. Kyungjin Moon, Georgia Institute of Technology
`2010
`• Thesis topic: Self-Reconfigurable Ship Fluid-Network Modeling for Simulation-Based Design
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Ms. Daili Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
`2008
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`Patents
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`Invited Talks
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`Honors and
`Awards
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`• Thesis topic: Multi-Agent Based Control with Distributed Dynamic Inference Engine for Large-
`scale Complex Systems
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`PhD Advisory Committee member for Mr. Yongchang Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
`2007
`• Thesis topic: An Intelligent, Knowledge Based Multiple Criteria Decision Making Advisor for
`Systems Design
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`1. Thermal Management Smart Valve with Rupture Detection and Isolation (US Patent No.
`US8600566B1)
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`2. Dynamic Simulation of a System of Interdependent Systems (US Patent No. US8589133B1)
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`1. ”An Introduction to the Use of Game Theory in Naval Engineering Applications ” February
`20, 2013, ASNE Day, Arlington, Va
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`2. “Distributed Control using Auction Theory and Optimal Control Theory”, June 26, 2013,
`Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ
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`3. “The Ship as a Microgrid ”, September 11, 2014, Government and DoD Smart Grids and
`Alternative Energy Symposium, Arlington, Va
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`4. ”Cyber Security Primer ”, May 21, 2015, ASNE Intelligent Ship Symposium, Philadelphia, Pa
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`5. ”Cyber-Physical System Security, Cybersecurity in Action, Research, and Education (CARE-
`Con), April 2, 2016, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa
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`• Meritorious Service Award, Villanova University College of Engineering, 2014
`• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Young Engineer of the Year, Philadel-
`phia Section, 2007
`• Member of the external advisory panel for Idaho National Laboratory Distinctive Signature in
`Instrumentation, Controls, and Intelligent Systems
`• Member of the IEEE technical committee for Resilience and Security for Industrial Applica-
`tions (ReSia)
`• Reviewer for numerous transactions and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Sys-
`tems, Man, and Cybernetics, American Control Conference, and IEEE/ASME Transactions
`on Mechatronics
`• Letter of Commendation from Chief of Naval Operations Code N7C, Navigator / Oceanogra-
`pher of the Navy for contributions to safety of navigation and mission accomplishment, 2005
`• Letter of Commendation from DDG 1000 Program Manager, PMS 500 for outstanding per-
`formance as Integrated Bridge System and Navigation Systems Lead, 2006
`• The American Society of Naval Engineers President’s Award, 2003
`• Naval Surface Warfare Center Submarine Systems Department Junior Engineer of the Year,
`1996
`• Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Philadelphia Co-op Engineer of the Year,
`1994
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`Volunteer and
`Pro Bono Work
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`• Industrial Advisory Committee, Temple University Department of Computer Science, (2015 -
`Present)
`• Advisory Panel Member - Idaho National Laboratory Distinctive Signature for Instrumenta-
`tion, Controls, and Intelligent Systems (2009 - 2013)
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`• General Chair - IEEE International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (2013, 2014,
`2015, 2016)
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`• Member - Haddon Heights Planning Board (2013 - Present)
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`• Temple University Electrical Engineering Department Advisory Panel (2008 - 2010)
`• Temple University Professional Science Master’s Degree in Cyber Security Advisory Panel
`(2015 - Present)
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