Curriculum Vitæ
Aurenice M. Oliveira, Ph. D.

August 2007

Education

Aug. 2005 University of Maryland, Baltimore County — Baltimore, MD, USA
  Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering: Communications and Signal Processing.
Dissertation: “Advanced Monte Carlo methods for computation of penalties induced by polarization mode dispersion in optical fiber transmission systems”.
Advisor: Dr. Curtis R. Menyuk.
Feb. 1998 State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) — Campinas, SP, Brazil
  M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering: Electronics and Communications.
Thesis: “Dimensioning of common channel signaling networks”.
Advisor: Dr. Ivanil S. Bonatti.
Dec. 1995 Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) — Salvador, BA, Brazil
  B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering: Electronics and Communications.
Sep. 1990 Federal Technical School of Bahia (ETFBA) — Salvador, BA, Brazil
  Electronics Technician.

Teaching Experience

2007 - present Michigan Tech University — Houghton, MI, USA
 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology.
2005 - 2006 North Dakota State University — Fargo, ND, USA
 Adjunct faculty member, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Courses taught Fall/2006 undergraduate: Electrical Engineering II, Laboratory of Electrical Engineering II;
Spring/2006 graduate: Optical Transmission Systems;
Spring/2005 undergraduate: Electrical Engineering II, Laboratory of Electrical Engineering II.
2005 - 2006 Minnesota State University — Moorhead, MN, USA
 Adjunct faculty member, Mathematics Department.
Courses taught Fall/2006 undergraduate: Intermediate Algebra (3 sections);
Spring/2006 undergraduate: College Algebra;
Fall/2005: College Algebra (2 sections), Fundamentals of Applied Math (2 sections).
2003 - 2004 North Dakota State University — Fargo, ND, USA
 Visiting scholar.
2000 - 2005 University of Maryland, Baltimore County — Baltimore, MD, USA
 Research assistant.

Languages

English
Fluency in reading, writing and speaking.
Portuguese
Native language.
Spanish
Basic reading and communication.

Professional Societies

Reviewer

Awards and Honors

Sep. 2003 Venice Summer School on Polarization Mode Dispersion Award, for paper that appeared in the proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2003). The award was presented at ECOC 2003 in Italy.
Mar. 1998 Graduate Scholarship at Ph.D. degree level from the National Research Council (CNPq) of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology for graduate education at the State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. Period: 3/1998 to 8/1998.
Mar. 1996 Graduate Scholarship at M. Sc. degree level from CAPES of the Brazilian Ministry of Education for graduate education at the State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. Period: 3/1996 to 2/1998.

Professional Services

2007 - 2011 Michigan Tech director of the U.S.-Brazil Consortium on Engineering Education on Renewable Energy funded by the U.S. Department of Education. From Fall 2007 to Summer 2011.
Summer 2007 Developer and instructor of DAPCEP-ITEST Youth Program class “Information Technology and Communication Theory”.
Summer 2007 Member of the Technical Committee for 2007 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference, Houghton, MI.

Grants

  1. A. M. Oliveira (PI for MTU and project director), N. Alaraje, A. Goel, “Engineering Education Consortia on Renewable Energy”, $97,828 grant awarded by the NDSU-U.S. Department of Education U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program. Period: September 2007 to September 2011.
  2. A. M. Oliveira (PI), “Startup Package to Establish Research and Scholarly Activities in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech.” $14,000 grant awarded by School of Technology at Michigan Tech. Starting in January 2007.
  3. A. M. Oliveira, “Information Technology and Communication Theory for DAPCEP-ITEST program.” $8,850 internal grant awarded by Michigan Tech Summer Youth Program. Period: July 9 -- July 27, 2007.
  4. A. M. Oliveira, “Information Technology and Communication Theory for DAPCEP-ITEST program.” $11,600 internal grant awarded by Michigan Tech Summer Youth Program. Period: July, 2009.

Invited Talks

May 2008 “Opportunities for exchange program in USA: Consortium NDSU-MTU-UFPA-UNICAMP”, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas, and Federal University of Pará, Campinas-SP, and Belém-PA, Brazil.
Oct. 2006 “Computation of outage probability in optical fiber communication systems”. School of Technology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI.
Nov. 2004 “Monte Carlo methods to compute penalties in optical fiber transmission systems”. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
Apr. 2003 “Different approaches for PMD mitigation in optical fiber transmission systems”. Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.

Archival Journal Publications

  1. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Comparison of two biasing Monte Carlo methods for calculating outage probability in systems with multi-section PMD compensators”. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 17, Nr. 12, pp. 2580-2582, December 2005.
  2. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Error estimation in Multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations with application to polarization mode dispersion emulators”. IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 23, Nr. 11, pp. 3781-3789, November 2005.
  3. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Statistical analysis of the performance of PMD compensators using multiple importance sampling”. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 15, Nr. 12, pp. 1716-1718, December 2003.
  4. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Comparison of penalties resulting from first-order and all-order polarization mode dispersion in optical fiber transmission systems”. Optics Letters, Vol. 28, Nr. 5, pp. 310-311, March 2003.
  5. A. M. Oliveira et al. “A novel polarization diversity receiver for PMD mitigation”. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 14, Nr. 4, pp. 465-467, April 2002.
  6. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Accurate receiver model for optical fiber communication systems with arbitrarily polarized noise”. IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 23, Nr. 3, pp. 1478-1490, March 2005.
  7. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “A comparative study of singlesection polarization-mode dispersion compensators”. IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 22, Nr. 4, pp. 1023-1032, April 2004.
  8. Y. Sun; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Statistics of the system performance in scrambled recirculating loop with PDL and PDG”. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 15, Nr. 8, pp. 1067-1069, August 2003.
  9. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Performance characterization of chirped return-to-zero modulation format using an accurate receiver model”. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 15, Nr. 4, pp. 608-610, April 2003.
  10. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Efficient computation of outage probabilities due to polarization effects in a WDM system using a reduced Stokes model and importance sampling”. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 15, Nr. 1, pp. 45-47, January 2003.
  11. Y. Sun; I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “System variations due to partially polarized noise in a receiver”. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 15, Nr. 11, pp. 1648-1650, November 2003.
  12. J. Zweck; I. T. Lima Jr.; Y. Sun; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Modeling receivers in optical communications systems with polarization effects”. OSA Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 14, Nr. 11, pp. 30-35, November 2003.

Contributed Papers at Conferences

  1. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Performance evaluation of single-section and three-section PMD compensators using extended Monte Carlo methods”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005. Anaheim, California, U.S.A., March 6-11, 2005. Proceedings... paper OME27.
  2. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Efficient computation of PMD-induced penalties using Multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations”. In: 29th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2003. Rimini, Italy, September 21-25, 2003. Proceedings... paper We364.
  3. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Performance analysis of single-section PMD compensators using multiple importance sampling”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., March 23-28, 2003. Proceedings... paper ThA3.
  4. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Comparison of power penalties due to first- and all-order PMD distortions”. In: 28th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2002. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 8-12, 2002. Proceedings... paper 7.1.2.
  5. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Compensation of polarization mode dispersion in optical fiber transmission systems using a polarization diversity receiver”. In: Venice Summer School on Polarization Mode Dispersion (VSS) 2002, Venice, Italy, June 24-26, 2002.
  6. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Polarization diversity and equalization for PMD mitigation”. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2002. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., May 13-17, 2002. Proceedings... Vol. III, pp. 2721-2724.
  7. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Polarization diversity receiver for PMD mitigation”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit (OFC) 2002. Anaheim, California, U.S.A., March 17-22, 2002. Proceedings... paper WI7.
  8. A. M. Oliveira et al. “PMD mitigation using diversity detection”. In: IEEE LEOS Summer Topical Meeting 2001. Copper Mountain, Colorado, U.S.A., July 30-August 1, 2001. Proceedings... paper MD3.3.6.
  9. A. M. Oliveira et al. “Redes de sinalização por canal comum: implementação”. In: V Seminário de Teletráfego do Sistema Telebrás. Recife - PE, Brazil, September 17-22, 1997.
  10. C. R. Menyuk; A. M. Oliveira. “Comparison of standard importance sampling methods to Multicanonical Monte Carlo methods in calculating the performance of optical fiber communication systems”. In: Workshop on Nonlinearity and Randomness in Complex Systems. The State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Mathematics. Buffalo, New York, USA, March 31-April 2, 2006.
  11. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira. “Computation of the probability of power penalty and Q-penalty outages due to PMD”. In: LEOS Annual Meeting 2003. Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., October 26-30, 2003. Proceedings... paper TuQ1.
  12. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “An accurate formula for the Q-factor of a fiber transmission system with partially polarized noise”. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO) 2003. Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., June 1-6, 2003. Proceedings... paper CThJ2.
  13. Y. Sun; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Accurate Q-factor distributions in optical transmission systems with polarization effects”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., March 23-28, 2003. Proceedings... paper ThJ4.
  14. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Computation of the Q-factor in optical fiber systems using an accurate receiver model”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., March 23-28, 2003. Proceedings... paper MF81.
  15. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Computation of the penalty due to the polarization effects in a wavelength-division multiplexed system using a reduced Stokes model with a realistic receiver”. In: Venice Summer School on Polarization Mode Dispersion (VSS) 2002. Venice, Italy, June 24-26, 2002.
  16. I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Computation of the outage probability due to the polarization effects using importance sampling”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit (OFC) 2002. Anaheim, California, U.S.A., March 17-22, 2002. Proceedings... paper TuI7.
  17. N. Alaraje, J. E. DeGroat, A. M. Oliveira, “Teaching field programmable gate array design (FPGA) to future electrical engineering technologists: course development”, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 24-27, 2007, paper 1208.
  18. N. Alaraje, G. Hembroff, A. M. Oliveira, “The Electrical Engineering Technology Program Outcome Assessment Process - Development and Implementation”, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 22-25, 2008, paper 1279.
  19. T. Adali; W. Wang; A. M. Oliveira. “Electronic equalization in optical fiber communications”. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2003. Hong Kong, China, 6-10 April 2003. Proceedings... Vol.4, pp.497-500.
  20. H. Jiao; I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Experimental validation of an accurate receiver model for systems with unpolarized noise”. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO) 2003. Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., June 1-6, 2003. Proceedings... paper CThJ1.
  21. J. Zweck; S. E. Minkoff; A. M. Oliveira et al. “A comparative study of feedback controller sensitivity to all orders of PMD for a fixed DGD compensator”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., March 23-28, 2003. Proceedings... paper ThY2.
  22. W. Xi; T. Adali; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Electrical estimation of polarization mode dispersion parameters for compensation”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., March 23-28, 2003. Proceedings... paper TuO5.
  23. Y. Sun; I. T. Lima Jr.; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Effects of partially polarized noise in a receiver”. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., March 23-28, 2003. Proceedings... paper MF82.
  24. S. E. Minkoff; J. W. Zweck; A. M. Oliveira et al. “Numerical simulation and analysis of fiber optic compensators”. In: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada, June 16-20, 2003.

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