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Education
- PhD Civil
Engineering, 1999, Georgia Institute of Technology
- MS
Civil Engineering, 1997, Georgia Institute of Technology
- BS Civil
Engineering, 1995, Northwestern University
Professional Experience
- 2005-Present: Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, The University
of Akron
- 2003-2005: Civil Engineering Technology Department, Southern
Polytechnic State University
- 2001-2004: Research Engineer II, Sensors
and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research
Institute
- 2000-2001: Consultant, Whitehurst Associates, Inc.
- 2000: Senior
Multidisciplined Engineer, Sensors and Electronic Systems Department,
Raytheon Systems Company
Research Interests
- Geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Pavement and concrete testing
and analysis
- Nondestructive testing and evaluation
- Sensors and sensor systems
- Information systems and GIS
Courses Taught
- CE 4300:313 – Soil Mechanics
- CE 4300:471 – Construction Administration
Selected Publications
- Zywicki, Daren J. and Glenn J. Rix (2005), “Mitigation of Near-Field
Effects for Seismic Surface Wave Velocity Estimation with Cylindrical
Beamformers”, American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Geotechnical
and Geoenvironmental Engineering, August, 2005, pp. 970-977.2004.
- Gregory
A. Showman, William L. Melvin and Daren J. Zywicki (2004), “Cramer-Rao
Lower Bounds for Bearing Estimation in STAP Performance
Analyses”, Proceedings of the 2004 International Radar Conference,
2004.
- Zywicki, Daren J., William L. Melvin, Gregory A. Showman and
Joseph R. Guerci (2003), “Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) performance
in site-specific clutter environments”, Proceedings 2003 Aerospace
Conference, Big Sky, MT, March, 2003, CD ROM.
- Melvin, William L., Gregory A. Showman and Daren J. Zywicki (2003),
“A Knowledge-Aided STAP Architecture”, Proceedings 2003
Knowledge-Aided Sensor Signal Processing and Expert Reasoning (KASSPER)
Workshop,
Las Vegas, NV, April 14-15, 2003, CD ROM.
- Zywicki, Daren J. and William L. Melvin (2002), “Application of
cultural databases in site-specific clutter modeling”,
Proceedings 2002 Knowledge-Aided Sensor Signal Processing and Expert Reasoning
(KASSPER) Conference, Washington, DC, April 3, 2002,
CD ROM.
- Melvin, William L. and Daren J. Zywicki (2002), “Knowledge-assisted
STAP analysis using measured airborne radar data”,
Proceedings 2002 Knowledge-Aided Sensor Signal Processing and Expert Reasoning
(KASSPER)
Conference, Washington, DC, April 3, 2002, CD ROM.
Patents
- United States of America (2005), “Stabilizing Motion in a Radar
Detection System Using Ultrasonic Radar Range Information”, with Eugene
F. Greneker.
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Secretary, Atlanta Aerospace,
Geoscience and Remote Sensing (AESS/GRSS) Chapter of the IEEE, 2002-2003
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