ANDES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor and Founding Faculty
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Alberto Cerpa is an Associate Professor and was one of the three founding faculties of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program in the School of Engineering at UC Merced when he joined in 2005. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA (2005), working under the supervision of Deborah Estrin. He also received a M.Sc. in Computer Science from USC (2000) under guidance of Deborah Estrin, and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from USC (1998) under guidance of Victor O. K. Li. Alberto received his undergraduate degree (Engineer) in Electrical Engineering from Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1995), working under supervision of Osvaldo Micheloud. While in graduate school, he worked as a protocol design consultant (together with Jeremy Elson) for Akamai and NetApp (Peter Danzig), as well as Sun Research Labs (Charles Perkins) and Xerox (Cheryl Bhence). Back in Buenos Aires, he worked for Startel S.A., the company that deployed the first Internet nodes in Argentina (1995-1996), and the telecommunication company Alcatel-France (1994-1995). His interests lie broadly in the computer networking and distributed systems areas, with recent focus in systems research in wireless sensor networks. Alberto is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2013). Several of his papers are some of the top cited papers in top journals, including ACM TMC (2nd out of 1535), ACM SIGCOMM CCR (32 out of 2472), and JPDC (59 out of 2867). He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.
Professional Activities
Associate Editor, (2010 - Present) ACM Transactions of Sensor Networks
Job Titles:
- Member of the Students and Staff
- EECS Student
- Student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCM
Job Titles:
- Member of the Students and Staff
- EECS Student
- Student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCM
Job Titles:
- Member of the Students and Staff
- Student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCM
Job Titles:
- Member of the Students and Staff
- EECS Student
- Student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCM
Job Titles:
- EECS Student
- Student in EECS at UCM ( 2013 ), Now Ph.D. Student in CSE at Penn State ( Working With Thomas La Porta )
Tao Liu is a PhD newly graduated from the EECS program, School of Engineering at the University of California, Merced. He is advised by Alberto Cerpa, associate professor in the School of Engineering. He received a B.Eng. degree from Wuhan University in 2000 and a M.Sc. from London South Bank University in 2006 under guidance of Perry Xiao. He worked as an assistant researcher in Yangtze River Scientific Research Institute from 2000 to 2005. His research interests lie broadly in the computer networking and distributed systems areas with an emphasis on wireless sensor networks. His graduate research focuses on temporal and spatial behavior of link quality in low power wireless networks and algorithms for effective wireless link quality estimation and routing.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Students and Staff