Cell Phone: 413-388-0407 E-mail: lc10027a2@westpost.net JOB OBJECTIVE A position in Electrical and Computer Engineering with an emphasis on Analysis, Research, Development, System Design, and Programming. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS Six years experience in telecommunication research and development - Satellite communication systems maintenance - HP Basic programming for automatic measurement - TI DSP TMS320 programming for real-time FSK demodulation - NI LabVIEW FPGA module design for DSSS demodulation Two projects cooperated with Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology - Performance analysis of FHSS communication systems - Positioning accuracy analysis of a stationary emitter Five years experience in telecommunication security analysis and design - Voice, FAX, data decoding and stream cipher strength analysis - C language, Shell script, Perl programming for digital signal processing Main research areas in Ph.D. degree include remote sensing application, target d etection, image processing, and adaptive signal processing. Education (GPA) 2006-2010 Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida, US (3.9) 1997-1999 M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering, C.C.I.T., Taiwan (3.9) 1989-1993 B.S. in Computer Science, C.C.I.T., Taiwan (3.5) Publications - Li-Der Chang, K. Clint Slatton, and Carolyn Krekeler, "Bare-Earth Extraction f rom Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds based on Segmentation Modeling and Iterative Sur face Corrections," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS), Vol. 4, 041884, Aug , 2010. (DOI:10.1117/1.3491194) - Li-Der Chang, K. Clint Slatton, "Occluded Vehicle Detection in Forested Terrai n from Airborne LiDAR Data," Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS ). (Submitted in June 2010, in revision) - Li-Der Chang, K. Clint Slatton, Vivek Ananda, Pang-Wei Liu, Heezin Lee, Michae l V. Campbell, "Automatic Forest Canopy Removal Algorithm for Underneath Obscure Target Detection by Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud Data," SPIE Defense, Security, a nd Sensing Conference, Apr, 2010. (DOI:10.1117/12.849822) * - K. Clint Slatton, Melba M. Crawford, Li-Der Chang, "Modeling temporal variatio ns in multipolarized radar scattering from intertidal coastal wetlands," ISPRS J ournal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Vol.63, pp.559-577, 2008. * - Li-Der Chang, Ching-Hwa Liu, and Yawpo Yang, "Performance Of Four-Dimensional Digital Communications System With Equal-Gain Diversity Combining In Rician Fadi ng Channels," 6th Military College Academic Conference, pp.111-118, May, 1999 * - Li-Der Chang, Ching-Hwa Liu, and Yawpo Yang, "Performance Of Four-Dimensional Digital Communications System With Equal-Gain Diversity Combining In Nakagami Fa ding Channels," IEEE 4th Multimedia Technology and Applications Symposium, pp.19 2-200, Apr, 1999 Teaching Experience - University of Florida, EEL 6825 Pattern Recognition. Guest Lectures on Mutual Information, Entropy, Bayesian decisions, Principle Component Analysis, Fisher L inear Discriminant, and Nonparametric Segmentation, Spring 2009. - University of Florida, EEL 3135 Introduction to Signals and Systems. Teaching Assistant on midterm exam discussion sessions, Fall 2009. - University of Florida, EEL 6825 Pattern Recognition. Guest Lectures on Princip le Component Analysis (PCA), Stochastic Processes, Signal Detection Theory and O perating Characteristics, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, and EM Algorithm, Sprin g 2010. Computer Skills - Familiar with MATLAB, C language, Assembly, MAPLE, PERL, Visual Basic, SQL, FO RTRAN, Shell Script, SED, AWK etc. - Microsoft Certificates: Microsoft Certified Professional (M.C.P), Microsoft Ce rtified Systems Administrator (M.C.S.A), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (M .C.S.E), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (M.C.D.B.A), Microsoft Certi fied Application Developer (M.C.A.D), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (M. C.S.D). Paper Reviewer (Including Assistance) - Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS), Aug 2010 - IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, May 2009. - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Nov . 2008 - IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Feb. 2008 - IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Jan. 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dec . 2007 WORK HISTORY 2006-2010 Research Assistant, Adaptive Signal Processing Laboratory, UF 2001-2006 Senior Researcher, Scientific Research Office, Taiwan 1999-2001 Signal Analyst, Communication Development Office, Taiwan 1993-1997 System Engineer, Communication Development Office, Taiwan