Luis Benites
2 Enterprise #4310, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 

lbenites@ece.uci.edu
Objective A position in Hardware & Logic Design, preferably in areas relating to Digital Signal Processing or Communication Systems.
Education M.S, Electrical Engineering. University of California, Irvine. GPA 3.936. April 1998. 

B.S, Electronic Engineering. Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela. October 1994.
 
Experience 1998 - Present - Signatec Inc. - Corona, California, USA.
DSP Hardware Design and Applications Engineer.

PMP8 PROJECT - Design and implementation of a high-speed multiprocessor DSP board using TI's C6x DSP family. Active participation in all the stages of development, including hardware design, high-speed programmable logic design, support in the development and testing of a real-time operating system, high and low level DSP software development. 

Hardware tasks varied from design, simulation and implementation of system level concepts in both CPLD and FPGA devices, to the final debugging of the hardware. Software tasks included support for the development of a real-time operating system, development of low level routines and design of high level system software for custom applications.
 

Summer 1997 - Computer Vision Lab - UCI. 
Research Assistant for Dr. Glenn Healey. 

PROJECT IN IMAGE PROCESSING - A linear model for the characterization of LW and MW infrared spectral reflectance functions of materials was developed and tested.
 

1996 - Signal Processing Group - USB - Caracas, Venezuela. 
Research Assistant for Dr. Francisco D'Alvano. 

PROJECT IN IMAGE PROCESSING - A review of vector quantization techniques was studied, a software library was developed to solve clustering problems using different techniques. 
 

1994 - Signal Processing Group - USB - Caracas, Venezuela.
Research Assistant for Prof. Reny Badra. 

PROJECT IN SPEECH PROCESSING - A theoretical analysis of CCITT's G.721 family of voice compression standards was developed, as well as a software simulation tool to test the performance of the systems under different operating conditions. 
 
Publications G. Healey and L. Benites. "Linear Models for Spectral Reflectance Functions over the Mid-Wave and Long-Wave Infrared". Journal of the Optical Society of America. August, 1998.

G. Healey and L. Benites. "Linear Models for Infrared Spectra". Proceedings of the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, New Orleans, May 1997. 
 
Honors Finalist at the National Mathematics Olympiad final. Venezuela, 1987, 1989.

Finalist at the National Chemistry Olympiad final. Venezuela, 1988.
 
Computer 
Skills		 Experience using programmable logic & simulation software, and PCB design tools.

Programming experience in DOS, Windows and UNIX using C, C++ and Assembly for Intelx86 family and TI C6x DSPs.