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Curriculum Vitae ofDr. Samuel H. Russ |
| sruss@usouthal.edu | |
| Phone | +1 (251) 461-1378 |
| Fax | +1 (251) 460-6028 |
| Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
75 Electrical Engineering Building (EEB) |
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| Home Page | http://www.ece.usouthal.edu/russ/ |
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991
Thesis Title: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Analysis of Computer Architectures and Compression of Instruction Memory Usage
Bachelor's of Electrical Engineering (with Highest Honor), Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986
| University of South Alabama | Associate Professor | 2007 - Present |
| Scientific-Atlanta | Manager, Advanced Technology R&D | 2000 - 2007 |
| IVI Checkmate | Manager, Electrical Engineering | 1999 - 2000 |
| Mississippi State University | Assistant Professor | 1994 - 1999 |
| Dickerson Vision Technology | Staff Electrical Engineer | 1992 - 1994 |
| Georgia Tech | Graduate Research Assistant | 1987 - 1991 |
| Article | Peer-reviewed? |
Samuel H. Russ, “High-Speed Digital Effects”, Chapter 10 of John Kraus and Daniel Fleisch, Electromagnetics with Applications, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1998. |
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Samuel Russ, Bret Webb, Jonathan Holifield and Justin Walker (2011). PILS: Low-Cost Water-Level Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring, Dr. E.O. Ekundayo Ph.D., P.Ag. Alberta Institute of Agrologists, Canada (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-724-6, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/pils-low-cost-water-level-monitoring |
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| Article | Number Cited by* |
Samuel H. Russ and Salim Alsharif, “Packet Loss Behavior of HomePlug AV Traffic at Video Bit Rates”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 2, May 2011, pp. 823-826. |
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Samuel H. Russ and Ramesh Nallur, “Digital Video Recording onto Solid-State Disks: Feasibility and Lifetime Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 2, May 2011, pp. 558-563. |
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Samuel H. Russ, and Sasan Haghani, "802.11g Packet-Loss Behavior at High Sustained Bit Rates in the Home", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 2, Feb. 2009, pp. 788-791. |
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Samuel H. Russ, and Ramesh Nallur, "A Framework for Calculating Fundamental DVR Performance Limits", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 1, Feb. 2009, pp. 132-138. |
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Ioana Banicescu, Sheikh Ghafoor, Vijay Velusamy, Samuel H. Russ, Mark Bilderback, “Experiences from integrating algorithmic and systemic load balancing strategies”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 13, Number 2, pp. 121-139 (2001). |
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| Roger L. King, Samuel H. Russ, Aric B. Lambert, Donna S. Reese, “An artificial immune system model for intelligent agents”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 17 , Issue 4, pp. 335 - 343 (January 2001). | 15 |
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Dr. Samuel H. Russ,
Jonathan Robinson, Matt Gleeson, Brad Meyers, and Chun-Heong Tan, “Using
Hector to Run MPI Programs over Networked Workstations”, Concurrency -
Practice and Experience, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 189-204 (1999). |
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| Russ, S.H. Reece, K. Robinson, J. Meyers, B. Rajan, D. Rajagopalan, L. Chun-Heong Tan, "Hector: an agent based architecture for dynamic resource management", IEEE Concurrency, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 47-55, Apr-Jun 1999. | 24 |
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Dr. Samuel H. Russ, Jonathan Robinson, Dr. Brian K. Flachs, and
Bjorn Heckel, “The Hector Distributed Run-Time Environment”, IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 9, No. 11, pp.
1102-1114 (1998). |
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S.H. Russ and C.O. Alford, “Coupled Noise and Its Effects on Modern Packaging Technology”, IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology, Volume 13, Number 4, December 1990, pp. 1074-1082 |
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U.S. Patent Number 6,748,080, “Apparatus for entitling remote client devices”, Samuel Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard Pinder, June 8, 2004. |
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U.S. Patent Number 7,181,010, “Apparatus for entitling remote client devices”, Samuel Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard Pinder, February 20, 2007. |
U.S. Patent Number 7,360,233, “Broadcast carousel system access for remote home communication terminal”, Samuel Russ, Michael Gaul, and Anthony Wasilewski, April 15, 2008. |
U.S. Patent Number 7,360,235, “Systems and methods for operating a peripheral record/playback device in a networked multimedia system”, David Davies, Samuel Russ, and Irvan Krantzler, April 15, 2008. |
U.S. Patent Number 7,499,822, "Analog set-top calibration patterns in manufacturing", Leo Montreuil, Wayne B. Williams, Samuel H. Russ, and Robert Kriete, March 3, 2009 |
U.S. Patent Number 7,505,592, "Apparatus for entitling and transmitting service instances to remote client devices", Samuel H. Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard Pinder, March 17, 2009. |
U.S. Patent Number 7,516,470, "Locally-updated interactive program guide", Samuel H. Russ and Michael Gaul, April 7, 2009 |
U.S. Patent Number 7,826,711, "Digital Video Disc (DVD) Player or Digital Video Recorder (DVR) Playback with Memory", Samuel H. Russ, Nov. 2, 2010 |
U.S. Patent Number 7,849,486, "Networked Subscriber Television Distribution", Samuel H. Russ, David Lett, Jonathan Robinson, and Michael Gaul, Dec. 7, 2010. |
U.S. Patent Number 7,860,250, "Apparatus for entitling and transmitting service instances to remote client devices", Samuel H. Russ, Michael Gaul, Anthony Wasilewski, and Howard Pinder, Dec. 28, 2010 |
U.S. Patent Number 7,861,272, "Networked Subscriber Television Distribution", Samuel H. Russ, David Lett, Jonathan Robinson, and Michael Gaul, Dec. 28, 2010. |
U.S. Patent Number 7,870,584, “Interactive program guide with selectable updating”, Samuel H. Russ and Michael Gaul, Jan. 11, 2011. |
U.S. Patent Number 7,876,998, “DVD playback over multi-room by copying to HDD”, William Wall and Samuel H. Russ, Jan. 25, 2011. |
| U.S. Patent Number 7,908,625, "Networked multimedia system", Neil C. Robertson, David B. Lett, Samuel H. Russ, Bohdan S. Prus, Michael A. Gaul, and Ajith N. Nair, March 15, 2011. |
| U.S. Patent Number 7,937,737, "Field qualification of disk drives in consumer electronics devices", Samuel H. Russ and Mark R. Murray, May 3, 2011. |
| U.S. Patent Number 7,961,780, “Generated set top calibration patterns in manufacturing”, Leo Montreuil, Wayne B. Williams, Samuel H. Russ, and Robert Kriete, Jun. 14, 2011. |
| U.S. Patent Number 7,978,720, “Digital media device having media content transfer capability”, Samuel H. Russ, Christopher L. Stallings, July 12, 2011. |
| U.S. Patent Number 8,046,806, “Multiroom point of deployment module”, William E. Wall, Samuel H. Russ, Oct. 25, 2011. |
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European Patent Number EP1543680B1, “Locally-updated interactive program guide”, Samuel Russ and Michael Gaul, Feb. 17, 2010 |
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European Patent Number EP1673937B1, “Proximity detection using wireless connectivity in a communications system”, Paul Claussen, Ajith Nair, and Samuel Russ, April 21, 2010 |
| Paper | Number Cited by* |
Samuel H. Russ and Ramesh Nallur, “Digital Video Recording Onto Solid-State Disks”, 2011 Digest of Technical Papers, 2011 International Conference on Consumer Electronics, pp. 495-496. (Second Place in "Best Paper, Storage Category") |
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Mohammad Mushtaq, Samuel H. Russ, and Mohammad S. Alam, “Variable FEC to Reduce ECC Overhead in Digital Video Transmission”, 2011 Digest of Technical Papers, 2011 International Conference on Consumer Electronics, pp. 215-216. |
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Samuel H. Russ and Salim Alsharif, “Behavior of HomePlug AV Traffic At High Sustained Bit Rates in the Home”, 2011 Digest of Technical Papers, 2011 International Conference on Consumer Electronics, pp. 682-683. |
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Samuel H. Russ, Viswakalyan Perepa, Silas Leavesly, and Bret Webb, "Novel Low-Cost Salinity Sensor for Embedded Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon 2010, March 18-21, 2010, pp. 53-56. |
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Samuel H. Russ, Kung-Hsien Chen, "Thermally Conductive Circuit Boards", Proceedings of the 59th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC 2009), May 2009, pp. 465-468. |
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Samuel H. Russ, Sasan Haghani, , "Behavior of 802.11g Traffic at High Sustained Bit Rates in the Home", 2009 Digest of Technical Papers, 2009 International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Jan. 2009, pp. 423-424. |
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Samuel H. Russ, Ramesh Nallur, “A Framework for Calculating Fundamental DVR Performance Limits”, 2009 Digest of Technical Papers, 2009 International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Jan. 2009, pp. 51-52. |
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Samuel H. Russ, Rashid Jean-Baptiste, Tangirala Shailendra Krishna Kumar, and Marion G. Harmon, “Transparent Real-Time Monitoring in MPI”, IPPS/SPDP Workshops 1999, in Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1586, Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 1327-1334. |
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Roger L. King, Aric B. Lambert, Samuel H. Russ, and Donna S.
Reese, “The Biological Basis of the Immune System as a Model for Intelligent
Agents”, IPPS/SPDP Workshops 1999,
in
Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
vol. 1586, Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 156-164. |
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Aric Lambert, Roger King, Sam Russ, and Donna Reese, “Intelligent Control Agents for Resource Management of Heterogeneous Parallel Computing”, Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control, and Automation (CIMCA 98) in Concurrent Systems Series, vol. 55, IOS Press, 1999, pp. 116-121. |
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Samuel H. Russ and Adam Gaither, “Developing An Integrated Environment for Computational Field Simulation”, SIAM Workshop on Object-Oriented Methods for Inter-Operable Scientific and Engineering Computing |
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Samuel H. Russ, Ioana Banicescu, Sheikh Ghafoor, Bharathi Janapareddi, Jonathan Robinson, and Rong Lu, “Hectiling: An Integration of Fine and Coarse-Grained Load-Balancing Strategies”, Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, August 1998, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 106-113. |
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Samuel H. Russ, “An Architecture for Rapid Distributed Fault Tolerance”, 3rd International Workshop on Embedded High-Performance Computing, in J. Rolim, Editor, Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1388, Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp. 925-930. |
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Dr. Samuel H. Russ, Brad Meyers, Jonathan Robinson, Matt Gleeson, Laxman Rajagopalan, Chun-Heong Tan, and Bjørn Heckel, “User-Transparent Run-Time Performance Optimization”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Embedded HPC Systems and Applications, Geneva, April 1997. |
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J. Robinson, S.H. Russ, B. Flachs, and B. Heckel, “A Task Migration Implementation of the Message-Passing Interface”, Proceedings of the 5th High Performance Distributed Computing Conference (HPDC-5), August 1996, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 61-68. |
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S.H. Russ, B. Flachs, J. Robinson, and B. Heckel, “Hector: Automated Task Allocation for MPI”, Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium, April, 1996, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 344-348. |
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W.S. Tan, C.O. Alford, and S.H. Russ, “GT-EP: A Novel High-Performance Real-Time Architecture”, Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May 1991, pp. 12-21. |
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| Course No. | Course Title | No. of Sections | Class Description |
| EE 264 | Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing | 4 | Intro to microprocessors, I/O circuits, and assembly language |
| EE 268 | Digital Logic Design Lab | 1 | Lab for basic digital class -- gates, simple logic circuits |
| EE 368 | Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing Lab | 3 | Lab for assembly language and microprocessor I/O circuits |
| EE 469/569 | Advanced Digital System Design | 1 | Lab for assembly language and microprocessor I/O circuits |
| EE 534 | VLSI Design Systems | 2 | Intro to VLSI layout and technology |
| EE 560 | Advanced Computer Architecture | 2 | RISC and other computer architecture concepts |
| EG 231 | Engineering Economics and Ethics | 1 | Economics and ethics for engineers |
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, 2009
University of South Alabama Mortarboard "Top Prof" Banquet, 2009
Outstanding Professor of the Year - University of South Alabama Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, 2008
| University of South Alabama Research Council (USARC), Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2009, "Instrumentation of Hurricane Forecast Models for Performance Optimization", $5,000 for one year. |
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Office of Naval Research, Nov. 1996-Nov. 1998, `”Distributed Visualization and Virtual Environments for Oceanography and Meteorology'', Co-PI, $200,000. |
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National Science Foundation, April 1998-March 1999, “An ERC-CREST Partnership in Distributed and Computational Systems", PI, $100,000/year, renewable for 5 years. |
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Office of Naval Research, Nov. 1996-Nov. 1998, `”Distributed Visualization and Virtual Environments for Oceanography and Meteorology'', Co-PI, $200,000. |
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U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, July 1996-July 1999, `”Efficient Parallel Wave Modeling'', PI, $200,000, Funded under CHSSI (Common HPC Scalable Software Initiative) of the DoD. ($50,000 actually funded.) |
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Small Business Innovations Research Program of the NSF, Division of Industrial Interface, September 1993 - February 1994, Award No. III-9260914. ($50,000 Phase I contract conducted at Dickerson Vision Technologies.) |
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Hector Distributed Run-Time Environment licensed by MPI Software Technology, Inc., Starkville, MS in June 1998 |