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Pronouns he, him, his, his, himself

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title Professor Emeritus

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Emeriti

Areas of Expertise Electrical Engineering

Primary Office Location Jack Baskin Engineering Building
362 JBE

Office Hours By Appointment

Mail Stop SOE2

Biography, Education and Training

• Since 2000, Don has been teaching and researching at UCSC in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSC, and was a researcher in the Center for Adaptive Optics there (2001 - 2011). Don is a Life Fellow of IEEE. Don retired as Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA in 1994, after 29 years there. He was also Professor of Anesthesiology at UCLA. In 1995 he served as Sen. Tom Harkin’s (Dem. IA) Legislative Assistant in Defense Appropriations, Energy, Environment, Arms Control, and Veteran’s Affairs as IEEE Congressional Fellow. He was a Fulbright Senior Fellow in Denmark in 1976-7 and in Norway in 1983-4, and he visited at DFVLR, Munich, 1969-70, U. Newcastle, Aus., 1989-90, U. Maryland, 1993-94, and Ajou U., Suwan, South Korea, 2006-07.

Research Interests

• Control systems
• Phased lock loops
• Kalman filtering
• System parameter estimation
• Adaptive optics for large telescopes
• Biomedical system modeling