Education

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Expected June 2010

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Mathematics Minor)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Graduated, May 2007

Research Experience

September 2008-Present, Stanford University, EE Dept.
Advisors - Mark Schnitzer(Biology), Abbas El Gamal(EE)
Helped developed techniques for imaging Ca2+ dynamics in freely behaving mice. This included designing the data acquisition hardware and software for our group's novel fluorescence microscope.

Summer 2006, Penn State University, EE Dept.
Advisor - Sven Bilen(EE)
Worked on various aspects of Software Defined Radio (SDR) system, including AM/FM tuner, and a modulation classification system (MCS) based on IQ information of the incoming signal. The MCS was split into hardware and software parts and implemented on a prototype board with an FPGA and DSP.

Summer 2005, InHand Electronics, Inc.
Advisor - Andrew Girson
Researched and implemented a low power, load balancing, intelligent DC-DC converter. The converter used a TI microcontroller (MSP430) to dynamically adjust power distribution to various loads from various different power supplies. The software running on the microcontroller attempted to maximize power consumption efficiency.

Professional Experience

Teaching Assistant, Winter 2009/2010, Stanford University
Taught the lab portion of a digital signal processing course (EE 265) with Prof. Teresa Meng. Responsible for giving weekly lectures on various DSP topics and for designing and grading the final project, an OFDM receiver. Gained extensive knowledge of the TI C5500 family of DSPs.

Hardware Engineer, Summer 2005, InHand Electronics, Inc.
Built, debugged, and tested a design for a multi-input intelligent power supply for use in a remote sensor. Gained experience writing embedded code (in C) and debugging embedded hardware.

Computer Programmer, Summer 2004, Interspace, Inc.
Wrote high-level C code to provide a user interface to a custom image processing board. Gained familiarity with the Windows XP 64 bit-operating system, in particular coding techniques and device drivers.

GSSP Intern, Summer 2003, Lucent Technologies
Worked for the INS (Integrated Network Systems) Interopability Lab. Assisted in design and implementation of a simulation tool to test a Cisco GGSN router. Responsible for the entire DHCP Server code for the simulator. Programmed in C and built the simulator directly into a Linux kernel. Used UML (User Mode Linux) to debug simulator code.

Computer Programmer, 2000-2002, Lockheed Martin Mission Systems
Worked on a project for US government designing a reconnaissance information processing system. Worked on the UK Census Project, which involved writing code in C++, SQL, and PERL.

Publications

Ryan J. Tibshirani, Andrew Price and Jonathan Taylor (2009). A Statistician Plays Darts. Submitted to Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A.

Price, Andrew D. and Sven G. Bilen. "Implementing an IQ Diagram to Determine RF Signal Modulation Classification." NSF EEREU Annual Research Journal. Vol. IV pp. 17-31. August, 2006.

Awards and Activities

Sequoia Capital Fellowship Award (2007)
Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) Scholar (Summer 2006)
Penn State EEREU Scholar (Summer 2006)
Dean's List (GPA of 3.5 or higher) (Every Semester Fall 2002 - Spring 2007)
Paul Morrow Endowed Scholarship (Fall 2002 - Spring 2005)
Minority Engineering Program, Bunton-Waller Scholarship (Fall 2002 - Spring 2005)
Lucent Global Science Scholar (May 2002)
Hispanic Heritage Youth Award for Science & Technology (March 2002)
Member of Penn State Men's Varsity Volleyball Team (2003 - 2006)

References available upon request.