IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Dallas Chapter

Officers

Chair	Mike Hannah Mike Hannah currently manages the Systems Engineering team for the Camera Phone Business Unit at Texas Instruments.He has been with TI since 1989 working initially in the Defense Systems and Electronics Group and later joining the Semiconductor Group in 1996.Mike was elected Member of the Group Technical Staff in 2001 and Senior Member of the Techical Staff in 2005.He holds a MSEE from University of Texas at Dallas and a BSEE from Auburn University.

Vice Chair	Sue Hui, Ph.D She Hui works for Verisilicon Inc. as a Sr. DSP engineer. She has over 20 years of experience in developing digital signal processing algorithms and software implementations on various embedded digital signal processors as well as Windows platforms for audio, video, image, display and telecommunications. She worked for Texas Instruments for 12 years where she developed and patented a number of algorithms that enabled DLP display technology. Prior to working for Texas Instruments, she had also worked for DSC communications (now part of Alcatel-Lucent) where she developed Network Echo Canceler technology. In addition to full time employment, she has also done consulting and contracting work for a number of companies for digital signal processing related projects. She holds BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and has held positions as a lecturer in Southern Illinois University and an assistant professor in Oregon State University respectively.

Treasurer	Anu Sundararajan Anu Sundararajan is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer in the Wireless Terminal Business Unit of Texas Instruments. She develops Khronos OpenMAX IL Image Signal Processing components on embedded Linux for TI's OMAP chipset. Previously, she developed Application/API Software for DLP TVs & Projectors at DLP Products, TI. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas.

Secretary	Adolfo Echeverria Adolfo Echeverria received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Monterrey Tech in Monterrey, Mexico in 1993. He also obtained a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1997 for his thesis titled "Analysis and Design of a Frequency Tunable Feedforward Amplifier for PCS applications". He has been with Texas Instruments since 1997 working in the Wireless Terminal Business Unit as a product engineer. During this time, he has developed automated test equipment programs and hardware and has offloaded production solution at various sites worldwide. He has also performed work in statistical analysis, production issues for hardware and software, as well as planning of new product releases at the test and product level. Areas of work have been PLLs, GSM transceivers and GPS receivers. Mr. Echeverria is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Web Master	Sue Hui

Past Chair

2008, 2009

Sue Hui

Past Chair

2006, 2007

Sam Broyles

Sam Broyles graduated with a Master of Engineering in the Program for Semiconductor Product Engineering at Texas Tech University in August of 2000 and with a Bachelor of Science with majors in Mathematics and Manufacturing Engineering Technology and a minor in Chemistry from Midwestern State University in May of 1998. In addition to graduating Magna Cum Laude from MSU, he was recognized with both the Man of the Year and Outstanding Senior Man awards. Since graduation, he has been a product engineer at Texas Instruments. During this time, he has developed automated test equipment programs and hardware, performed bench characterization, performed statistical analysis, resolved production test issues, participated in new product development, analyzed devices returned by customers, and performed application research. Product areas have included interface bus transceivers, audio power amplifiers, and low power wireless transceivers. Mr. Broyles presented "Using CAN Arbitration for Electrical-Layer Testing" at the 8th International CAN Conference. He was awarded the 2005 Young Engineer of the Year award for the Dallas IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and the 2006 Young Engineer of the Year award for the Dallas IEEE.

Past Treasurer

Ping Tao

Past Secretary

LaRell Nelson

LaRell graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering in 1976. He has developed a variety devices including: cable and broadcast character generators, disk drives, video system for flight simulators, Mac video card, and a video on demand system. The last 10 years, he has been designing cell phones, both CDMA and GSM. He has experience doing both board level and FPGA/ASIC design.

Past chair and founder

2004, 2005

William Lumpkins

William Lumpkins, Senior Member of IEEE, is the technical manager of the System Applications Team in the Cellular Systems group at Texas Instruments. He has a BSEE from New York University & a BSCS from Maryland University. William founded the IEEE Dallas Section Consumer Electronics Chapter in 2004 (www.dallasces.org) and has grown its membership from 10 to 150 members and has been selected to serve on the Consumer Electronics Societies ADCom for (2006 ~ 2009) as First Vice-President. The Dallas chapter has been selected to host the International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2007) and is working with the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society ADCOMM in development of the Distinguished Lecturer program and a CE logo to promote our Society to a wider audience base. As a member of the IEEE Dallas Section Excom, he strives to help the engineering community and local universities strive to promote engineering. William has been recently selected as an ABET evaluator, to assist universities in improving their Engineering programs.

Past Vice Chair

Mark Szewczul

Past Webmaster

Rajeev Ramanath, Ph.D.

Rajeev Ramanath received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1998. He obtained a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2000 for his work titled "Interpolation Methods for Bayer Color Arrays." He eceived a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from North Crolina State University in 2003 for his dissertation titled, "A Famework for Object-characterization and Matching in Multi--and hyperspectral Imaging Systems." After a one year post doctoral position wth the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at North Crolina State University, during which he taught two classes: an advanced graduate-level course on statistical Pattern Recognition and another introductory junior-level Linear Systems, he joined Texas Instruments Inc. working in the DLP(R) Products algorithm development group. His research interests include computer vision, image and signal processing, demosaicking in digital color cameras, color science and automatic target recognition.

Past Secretary

Patrick Stohrer

Last Updated: March 21, 2010
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