User:Jose A. Ramos

José A. Ramos received the BS degree in civil engineering in 1978 from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in hydro-systems engineering, specializing in operations research and control theory, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1979 and 1985, respectively. From 1986-1990 he was an associate research engineer at United Technologies Optical Systems in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he worked on Kalman filtering and target tracking applications for ground based free electron laser systems. From 1991-1993 he was a Visiting Research Scientist at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, sharing responsibilities between the Electrical Engineering Department and the Institute for Land and Water Management, where he worked in the development of subspace based system identification algorithms for linear, descriptor, bilinear, and 2-D systems, with applications in hydrology. In 1995 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis as an Associate Professor. In 2007 he joined the Department of Engineering and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Stout as Professor and Program Director of Computer Engineering. In 2008 he joined Nova Southeastern University in Florida and is currently an associate professor and Chair of Computer Engineering. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Montpellier II in France, the University of Oporto in Portugal, The University of Padova in Italy, and the University of Poitiers in France. His research interests include mathematical modeling and system identification theory, linear and nonlinear systems theory, optimization theory, algorithm design, model based control design, model based image processing, and stochastic realization theory.