Contact Information:

• Office Location: FH 332
• Phone Number: (216) 687-5407
• Email: d.j.simon@csuohio.edu
• Personal Website: http://academic.csuohio.edu/simond/

Education:

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Syracuse University, 1991

Research Interests:

• Control Systems
• State Estimation
• Signal Processing
• Computer Intelligence

Honors and Awards

• CSU Faculty Merit Recognition Award, May 2007
• Received Boeing Aerospace’s Team Achievement Award in 1984 for "Outstanding Contribution to the Inertial Upper Stage Program".
• Received Syracuse University’s Graduate Fellowship (the only one in the Electrical Engineering Department) for the 1990-91 academic year.
• Honorable Mention in the 1990 Student Paper Competition of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
• Received TRW’s Key Award in 1993 for "Outstanding Independent Research and Development Contributions".

Classes Frequently Taught

• ESC 120 Introduction to Engineering Design
• EEC 380 Digital Systems
• EEC 414/503 Writing in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• EEC 417 / 517 Embedded Systems
• EEC 510 Linear Systems
• ESC 720 Research Communications
• EEC 641 / 741 Multivariable Control
• EEC 644 / 744 Optimal Control
• EEC 645 / 745 Intelligent Control Systems
• EEC 693 / 793 Genetic Algorithms
• EEC 693 / 793 Optimal State Estimation
• EEC 693 / 793 Population-Based Optimization
• Kalman Filtering

Recent Publications (List of publications)

• H. Ma, D. Simon, and M. Fei, “On the convergence of biogeography-based optimization for binary problems,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2014, Article ID 147457, 11 pages, 2014.
• D. Simon, M. Omran, and M. Clerc, “Linearized biogeography-based optimization with re-initialization and local search,” Information Sciences, vol. 267, pp. 140–157, May 2014.
• H. Ma, D. Simon, M. Fei, X. Shu, and Z. Chen, “Hybrid biogeography-based evolutionary algorithms,” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 30, pp. 213–224, April 2014.
• H. Richter and D. Simon, “Robust Tracking Control of a Prosthesis Test Robot,” ASME Journal of Dynamic System, Measurement, and Control, vol. 136, no. 3, paper 031011, February 2014.
• D. Du and D. Simon, “Complex System Optimization Using Biogeography-Based Optimization,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2013, Article ID 456232, 18 pages, 2013.
• H. Ma, D. Simon, M. Fei, and Z. Chen, “On the equivalences and differences of evolutionary algorithms,” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 2397–2407, November 2013.
• D. Simon and Y. Shmaliy, “Unified forms for Kalman and finite impulse response filtering and smoothing,” Automatica, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 1892-1899, June 2013.
• D. Simon, A. Shah, and C. Scheidegger, “Distributed learning with biogeography-based optimization: Markov modeling and robot control,” Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, vol. 10, pp. 12–24, June 2013.
• Y. Shmaliy and D. Simon, “Iterative unbiased FIR state estimation: A review of algorithms,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2013, no. 113, May 2013.
• H. Ma, D. Simon, M. Fei, and Z. Xie, “Variations of biogeography-based optimization and Markov analysis,” Information Sciences, vol. 220, pp. 492–506, January 2013.

Projects

• Non-contact ECG Monitoring and Diagnosis, National Science Foundation, August 2010-August 2013
• Rapid Rehabilitation and Return to Function for Amputee Soldiers, Cleveland Clinic, June 2010-December 2012
• Wireless Gesture Recognition Using Inertial Navigation Systems, Innovative Developments, January 2011 - August 2011
• Automotive Engine Time-to-Torque Optimization,Ford Motor Company, January 2012 - August 2012
• Automotive Fuel Consumption Minimization,Ford Motor Company, January 2013 - December 2014