Sean McPherson
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Sean McPherson
Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
E-mail: smcphers at usc.edu
Advisor: Antonio Ortega
Research Interests
- Analysis of Network Traces
- Non-uniform Sampling Techniques
- Anomaly Detection Methods
Education
- Sep. 2005-present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
- Sep. 2005-May 2007: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2009, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
- Jan. 2002-Dec. 2004: University of Miami, Miami, FL
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering - Audio Engineering, Dec. 2004, Department of Electrical Engineering
Professional Experience
- Broadcom: May 2006-Aug. 2006
- Intern in Bluetooth Audio Group
- Research in Beamforming for Noise Reduction, and Filter-Bank implementation
Fellowships / Awards
- USC Viterbi School of Engineering Doctoral Fellowship (Sep. 2005-May 2009)
Skills / Tools
- Proficient in C/C++ (including GUI programming), MatLab, and Asm/C for DSP.
- Working knowledge of Windows and UNIX systems.
Miscellaneous Publications
- S. McPherson and A. Ortega, "Analysis of Internet Measurement Systems for Optimized Anomaly Detection System Design". Available on Arxiv, Originally released July 2009. PDF Format
- S. McPherson and A. Ortega, "Improved Internet Traffic Analysis via Optimized Sampling". To Appear in 2010 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'10), Dallas, March 2010. PDF Format
