Born in Veria, Greece on March 25, 1941. After surviving the War (“The Seven Miracles”, Isaac Daniel) we found ourselves headed to the United States, arriving to New York Harbor on USS Independence in the early morning of December 25, 1954. The excitement of starting anew in a country of freedom and opportunity overshadowed serious apprehension of having to learn yet another language. In 1955, the family celebrated a first Thanksgiving and looked forward to a new life.

1959 - Representing Hyde Park High School - 2nd Place in Chicago
Science Fair with “Hyparaelliptic Infinitum”, a physical structure
exhibiting a gradual confluence of conics.
1959 - PTA Scholarship for most improved student in a graduating class of
over 400.
1962 - One of two University of Illinois Men’s Residence Halls scholarships for highest academic performance.
1964 - A full scholarship from Indiana University and the University of
IllinoisI EE Department for a “Russian Language Study Tour to the
Soviet Union”, over the Summer.
1970 - Member of ΣΤ, ΗKN, ΠME Honorary Fraternities.
1971 - BS, MS, PhDEE with combined major in EM Fields (Mittra) and
Optimal Control (Kokotovic), with Minor in Applied Mathematics
(Langebartel).
1980 - Motorola Dan Noble Fellow.
1988 - Adopted Mathematica as the analytical platform of choice!
2007 - Raytheon Engineering Fellow.
2013 - Wolfram Award in Recognition of applying Mathematica in Industry.
2014 - 20 Issued Patents, 3 each Engineering and Invention Awards.
2026 - English, Greek, Spanish, Russian

RADIATION 1965-67

• Radar Microwave Technology upon completion of MSEE.

MAGNAVOX 1967-73

• Concurrent Part-Time Company-Sponsored PhDEE program at the
  University of Illinois. Started in 1967 with two courses, passing qualifiers,
  as well as one foreign language requirement of Russian reading
  comprehension. Four years later defended Thesis, “Optimal Solution to
  EM Scattering Problem”, and completed second language requirement
  with a short lecture on Electrostatics, in Russian.
• Designed and built a “127-tap Digital Equalizer” for transatlantic cables.
  Architecture based on a fixed-point, numerically stable optimal controller,
  substantiated by simulation, emulation, built-in test and successful
  deployment. 1973 IEEE Decision and Control Conference, San Diego.

MOTOROLA 1973-2000

• Modeling and Simulation of Radar Signal Processing, including Adaptive
  Array Processing. Designed, simulated, emulated, built and demonstrated
  numerically stable controller for a dynamically adaptive array architecture.
  Planned implementation in Wolfram Mathematica.
• AI Laboratory for evaluating and enhancing Prolog and Scheme
  languages with improved numerical performance to support practical
  expert systems. A patent for a type-tagged extension of Motorola’s
  M88000 followed.
• Efficient “Stacking Methods” for Steel and other Industries, developed and
  demonstrated using Mathematica.
• Efficient Shuffle-Free FFT architecture in Prolog and Scheme - 1988
  Logic Programming Conference and Kent Dybvig’s Chez Scheme Book.
  Planned Mathematica implementation.

PRINTRAK 2000-06

• Fingerprint matching algorithm development using Mathematica.
  Developed the patented Grayscale Matcher and fused it
  with established matching system to achieve an overall 10% matching
  improvement.

RAYTEHON 2007-13

• Radar signal processing with interactive demonstrations using Wolfram Mathematica.
• Virtual Adaptive Arrays, Direction of Arrival and Radar clutter estimation.

PERSONAL ACTIVITIES

• Translation of Fortran and other applications to Wolfram Language.
• Translation of Classic Russian Literature into English - for practice.
• Extending a Forensic Analysis into a classic Expert System.
• Compelled to increase own medical awareness, found lacking in current medical practice.