RESEARCH INTERESTS

Instrumentation for remote sensing systems such as radio telescopes, radars, ad hoc sensor networks and biological sensors.

Instrumentation for radio and microwave communication.

Numerical methods and computational techniques to study and design complex systems.

EDUCATION

Boston University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering; Concentration:

Communications and Signals.

Cumulative GPA: 3.76/4.0 as of 2007 May

Boston University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Class of 2004.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

M.S. in Electrical Engineering; Concentration:

Communications and Signals.

Cumulative GPA: 3.75/4.0.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

Special student, Spring 2003.

Graduate course: Receiver, antennas and signals.

University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Class of 2001.

Electrical Engineering Department

B.S. in Electrical Engineering; Concentration:

Communications.

Final Grade: 6.0/7.0 (Maximum distinction).

PUBLICATIONS

Diaz, M. A.,  Semeter, J. M., Oppenheim, M.,  Zettergren, M.,

Particle-In-Cell Simulation of the Incoherent Scatter Radar Spectrum, Radio Sci, 43, 2008.  

Zettergren, M., J. Semeter, P. Blelly, and M. Diaz , Optical estimation of auroral ion upflow, J. Geophys. Res, 112, 2007.

Rogers,  A. E. E.,  P. Pratap,   J. C.  Carter,  and  M. A.  Diaz,  Radio frequency interference shielding and mitigation techniques for a sensitive search for the 327 MHz line of deuterium, Radio Science, 40, 5–+, 2005.

Rogers, A. E. E., P. Pratap, E. Kratzenberg, and M. A. Diaz, Calibration of active antenna arrays using a sky brightness model, Radio Science, 39, 2023–+, 2004.

Marrone, D. P., et al., A Map of OMC-1 in CO J = 9–8, Astrophys. J. 612, 940–945, 2004.

Blundell, R., et al., Prospects for Terahertz Radio Astronomy from Northern Chile, Thirteenth International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, 159–166, 2002.

EXPERIENCE

My  Ph.D.  research  is related  to achieving new operation modes for

the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scattering Radar (AMISR). Accurate computational models for the radar and the ionospheric plasma have been built to accomplish this research.

While an M.S. candidate, I was a Research Assistant in the  Deuterium Array Project at MIT Haystack Observatory.  I collaborated in the design of the array, a new calibration system for the instrument, and a detection system for radio interference at 327 MHz.

I have been collaborating for the last six years at the Smithonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) as a Research Associate at the Submillimeter Receiver Laboratory of the Radio and Geoastronomy Division. I have collaborated specifically with the Receiver Lab Telescope (RLT) project, an experimental terahertz radio telescope on Cerro Sairecabur, near San Pedro de Atacama.

My Bachelors thesis was made in the Company Telefónica Móbil CTC Chile, from January to December of 2000, where I worked on a model to dimension the size of the cell phone network needed to carry multimedia traffic.

AWARDS

Co-recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow Award of

the ECE Department for the 2004/2005 Academic year.

REFERENCES

Ray Blundell, rblundell@cfa.harvard.edu.

Scott Paine, spaine@cfa.harvard.edu.

Alan Rogers, M.S. Advisor, aeer@haystack.mit.edu.

Joshua Semeter, Ph.D. Advisor, jls@bu.edu.