Dr. Victor Eliashberg

EDUCATION:

                 Leningrad Technological Institute, USSR.
                 Degree: Ph.D in Automatic Control

                 Leningrad Electrical Engineering Institute, USSR.
                 Degree: Electrical Engineer

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

2004 - 2009:
                 Consulting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.                 

2003:
                 Visiting scholar at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
                 Topic: What is working memory? The problem of mental imagery and mental computations.

1994:
                 Visiting scholar at the University of Maryland. Dpt. of Mathematics.
                 Topic: Ensembles of protein molecules as statistical computers.

1994:
                 Visiting scholar at the Tel Aviv University. Dpt. of Mathematics. Tel Aviv, Israel.
                 Topic: Neural networks.

1993:
                 Visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley. Ophthalmology Dpt.
                 Topic: Context-sensitive associative memory and computational universality.

1992:
                 Visiting scholar at IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, Dpt. of Mathematics. France.
                 Topic: E-machines: How does an analog brain process symbolic information?

1965-1966:
                 Institute of Solid State Physics of the USSR Academy of Science. Chernogolovka, Moscow region.
                 Head of the Electronic Group.

GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE:

2004-2005:
                 Investigator on a cognitive memory project (with Dr. B. Widrow, and Mr. M. Kamenetsky). DARPA, Contract No. W31P4Q-04-C-R279.

2004:
                 Investigator on a speech enhancement project (with Dr. B. Widrow). DARPA, Contract No. W31P4Q-04-C-R104.

1990-1991:
                 Principal investigator on the SDI project: "Thousand object tracking
                 with neural networks." (with Dr. B. Widrow, Dr. M.E. Hoff, Jr, and Dr. M. Gluck). Contract No. DASG60-88-C-0075.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:

1986-Present:
                 Avel Electronics. Consulting company. Palo Alto, CA.    President.

• Currently involved in the development of hardware and software for cognitive information processing.
  
  
• Developed a downloadable FPGA based VLIW test processor. Developed a language for this processor and wrote a compiler for this language.
  (for Pycon, Inc., Santa Clara, CA.)



• Developed a PC based RAMBUS memory tester. Wrote a software for this tester.
  (for New Millenium Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA.)



• Developed a switching power supply with a microprocessor controlled variable voltage.
  (for Pycon, Inc., Santa Clara, CA.)



• Developed a software package for a high precision tribometer.
  (for Institute of Tribology, Inc., Mnt. View, CA.)



• Developed a microprocessor and FPGA based driver for the test and the burn-in of different memory devices.
  (for Pycon, Inc., Santa Clara, CA.)



• Developed an FPGA based real-time monitoring system for the burn-in process of Intel's Pentium microprocessors.
  (for Pycon, Inc., Santa Clara, CA.)



• Developed a plug-in board for the IBM compatible PC's aimed at controlling up to 20 picomotors.
  Developed a set of high-precision differential amplifiers for the picomotor control system
  (for Micrometrics, Inc., San Jose, CA.)



• Developed a set of high voltage amplifiers for the control of piezoelectric transducers
  (for Spectel, Inc., Palo Alto, CA.)



• Developed a software package for a robotic laser soldering station
  (for Microautomation, Inc., Berkeley, CA.)



• Developed a DSP-based data acquisition and filtering system for the recording of heart activity and respiration.
  (for NIMS, Inc., and Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, Fl.)



• Developed memory boards, solid state drives, and EPROM programmers for the IBM compatible PC's. (Hardware and software.)
  (manufactured by Avel Electronics, Palo Alto, CA)



• Developed an automatic data acquisition system for the measurement of the microwave field in
  the medical linear electron accelerators in the range from 1.6GHz to 10GHz.
  (for Varian Associates, Palo Alto, CA.)

1977-1986:
                 Varian Associates, Medical Division (formerly Radiation Division), Palo Alto, CA.  
                 Computational Physicist.

• Responsible for the theoretical analysis and computer simulation of different characteristics
  of linear electron accelerators for medical and industrial applications.

1966-1975:
                 National Mendeleev Research Institute of Metrology,   Leningrad, USSR.
                 (the USSR equivalent of the National Bureau of Standards)   Senior Research Associates.

• Responsible for the development of the automatic instruments for the highest-precision
  linear and angular measurements.

1958-1965:
                 National Research Institute of the Pulp & Paper Industry, Leningrad, USSR.
                 Project leader then the head of control lab.

• Responsible for the development and implementation of different types of control systems used
  in the Pulp & Paper Industry. Was also involved in the mathematical simulation of dynamics
  of different types of distributed chemical reactors.

1957-1958:
                 National Bureau of Analytical Instruments, Leningrad, USSR.
                 Electro-mechanical designer.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• Lectures in electronics and automatic control at the State Courses for Engineers
• Private tutoring in physics and mathematics for pre-college students
• Served as Ph.D. advisor for seven graduate students in automatic control

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

             International Neural Network Society (member since 1988). Former member of the
             American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society,
             and the IEEE Computer Society.

COMPUTER LANGUAGES:

             C, C++, PASCAL, FORTRAN; a broad range of assemblers for microprocessors and DSP's;
             hardware design languages and tools: VHDL, AHDL, MaxPlus, OrCAD, P-CAD.

LANGUAGES:

             English, Russian (native speaker).

PERSONAL:

             Married, two daughters, US citizen.

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:

• Prof. Bernard Widrow, Stanford University. (650) 723-4949
• Dr. Irwin Sobel, HP Labs. (650) 857-5774
• Prof. Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University. (650) 723-4073