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Edwin A. Hernandez, Ph.D

 

4890 NW 101st Ave

Coral Springs FL 33076

edwin at edwinhernandez .dot. com

 

 

 

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Education | Biography | Research Interests |

Publications | Patents | Research Experience

 

 

Education

 

2002    Ph.D. Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

1999    M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

1995    B.S. Electronics Engineering, Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR), Costa Rica

 

Biography

 

Dr. Hernandez was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He graduated in 1995 with a B.S in Electronics Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology where he developed hardware/software systems for the main data networking company in the country, RACSA. Upon graduation, he joined COMTELCA, The Central American Telecommunications Commission, and was in charge of the creation and planning for their Internet presence, additionally during that period, 1995-1997, he also became one of the Internet pioneers in Honduras, when in 1996, Dr. Hernandez started COMPUNET, one of Honduras first Internet Service Providers, which he founded with the help of his parents. Later on, in 1997, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to Gainesville to start his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida while working at the High-Performance Computing and Simulation Research Lab under Dr. Alan D. George.  In 1999, he was admitted to the Ph.D. program in Computer Engineering and under the direction of Dr. Sumi Helal, he became a researcher at the Harris Mobile Computing Lab investigating the effects of speed in mobile devices handoff. His research and efforts developed a hardware/software device called RAMON. RAMON is a mobility emulator in which developers may test mobility protocols in realistic emulation environments. As an example, Dr. Hernandez implemented a predictive Mobile IP protocol to show how proactive registration mechanisms could improve throughput at different handoff speeds. Both components became part of his dissertation, publications, and patents.

 

Dr. Hernandez enjoyed his days in Gainesville combining academic and entrepreneurship activities. In addition to his research, he was also an active member of "The Entrepreneurs Club" participating and wining several business plan competitions in Gainesville with NOVORIS Technologies, and "Smartfit" a pioneering software for handheld devices (Pocket PC). In 2001, Edwin spent a summer at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA., and in the period corresponding to 2002-2003 he joined as a full-time employee working for the Windows Networking Organization. In November 2003, he moved back to Florida where he joined Motorola as a Senior Software Engineer. In Motorola, Dr. Hernandez worked at part of its technical leadership team, working on many software platforms (BREW, Java/J2ME, Android, Windows Mobile), developing multiple devices including Gemini (i930 Windows Mobile), i1 (iDEN Android device), dual-mode CDMA iDEN (ic402, ic502) ,and many others, as well as part of Motorola's  patent evaluation committee (software).

 

In addition to his several academic publications, Dr. Hernandez has submitted 12 patents (with 5 issued) with his different employers including Microsoft, the University of Florida, and Motorola, Inc. He also has been tutor, teaching assistant, instructor, in several University undergraduate/graduate classes, and participated in several conferences.  

 

In 2007, he was invited to join the editorial board for the International Journal of Network Management, and is current part of the Technical Committee for BROADNETS 2008 and LCN 2008. and now recently contributing to International Journal of Simulation IJSIMM. In 2009, Dr. Hernandez was published an article in IEEE Pervasive Computing (January 2009) and was invited as presenter for Mobile Commerce 2009, in Miami FL (June 15th, 2009). Edwin also volunteers with the organization committee for Mobile Mondays Miami. Edwin has wide expertise working on Google Android at all platform levels, additionally he runs part-time an embedded software engineering firm EGLA CORP and UBIWIRELESS submitting several applications to the Android Market, Apple Application Store, and Blackberry "App Store".

 

Dr. Hernandez has been invited to present in different venues including "Mobile Commerce Americas," "Webconf Latino 2010," and "First Tuesday Honduras (Web)." As a member of Mobile Monday committee (MoMoMiami), he also participated in several events in Miami.


Recently Edwin funded  Rapid Mobile Technologies, Inc (dba/ RAMOBITECH), a company with exclusive licensing agreements with the University of Florida Research Foundation and University of Florida's OTL (See link) for his patents and now being commercialized as MobileCAD and MobileIPP.

 

You may find Edwin's profile in linked in.  In his spare time, he enjoys reading and playing his electric guitar.

Research Interest

Telecommunication Networks, Context-aware computing and pervasive spaces, Physical and network layer mobility protocols, resource allocation and predictive mobility models, Network protocols and mobility over IPv4 and IPv6 (IPnG), Smart phones and wireless embedded software development, 3G/4G, WLAN.

 

Wireless Projects


Rapid Mobile Technologies, Inc

MobileCAD (US Patent 7,231,330) an innovative Mobile Emulation technology.  Rapid Mobile Technologies, Inc was featured at "UF Technology Showcase 2009"

 

Web/Mobile Projects

EGLA CORP: Mobile application development, projects and consulting, R&D projects, and product development.

http://A2F.me:: Shortening URLs service, links, including access to iPHONE/Android Web Application with Financial Information, for instance http://a2f.me/AAPL .

http://www.eglacomm.net/:  FCC-214 with FCC-499a accreditation, carrier-services, several projects under development. (here)

http://rxprofile.net A pharmaceutical application  and a blog at http://rxprofile.net/news/

http://futmob.com/blogs/ A Soccer Blog (Experimental)


http://android.ubiwireless.com/  Ad2Location submitted to Android Developer Challenge, Top 20% application I will fix it and release it as an Open Source Project.

 

Publications

 

Papers and Refereed Journals/Conferences
  • E. Hernandez, A. Ayyagari, _Heavily-tailed Network Traffic Modeling for Power Management", IEEE Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks Australia, November 2005. Session 4
  • E. Hernandez, A. Helal, "Predictive Mobile IP for Rapid Mobility," IEEE Computing Conference on Wireless Local Networks, WLN 2004," Tampa, Fl.
  • E. Hernandez, A. Helal  "RAMON: An emulation approach," IEEE Confonference in Local Computer Networks.2002, Tampa, FL
  • E. Hernandez, M. Chideste, and A. George, "Adaptive sampling for network management," Journal of Networks and System Management (JNSM), Vol. 9, No. 4, Dec 2001.
  • E. Hernandez, A. Helal, " Examining Mobile-IP Performance in Rapidly Mobile Environments: The Case of a Commuter Train, " IEEE Conf. LCN 2001, Tampa, FL, Nov 14-16, 2001.
  • A. Helal, S. Shah, E. Hernandez, Mobility Benchmarking In Ad-Hoc Networks, The IPSJ Journal, Vol.43, No.11, June 2002. Approx. 15 pp.
  • S.Shah, E. Hernandez, A. Helal, "CAD-HOC: A CAD Like Tool For Generating Mobility Benchmarks In Ad-Hoc Networks," SAINT 2002, Japan, January 2002.

 

Thesis & Dissertations

  • E. Hernandez  "An adaptive protocol for rapid mobile environments," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, August 2002.
  • E. Hernandez. "Adaptive sampling for network management," M.Sc. Thesis, University of Florida, Dec 1999.
  • E. Hernandez, Y. Lee. "Monitoring system of a packet data network," B.Sc. Thesis. ITCR, July 1995.


Publications can be downloaded from here

 

Financial Interests

 

 

Patents

 

Published Patents can be retrieved at this link
Issued Patents can be retrieved at this link

 

Interviews and Videos

Presentations

Industry Experience

 

 

Research Experience

 

Teaching Experience

·       Undergraduate courses 2000-2002: Software Engineering, Intro to Computer Science (Java), C/C++, others

·       Graduate courses: Mobile Computing, Motorola_s Killer App Competition, 2001-2002