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Scott
A. Starks, Ph.D., P.E.
Contact Information
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Pan American Center for Earth and Environmental Studies
Co-Director, El Paso TexPREP
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
(915) 747-5992 or 747-5993
Professional Preparation
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Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering University
of Houston 1973
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Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering Rice University 1978
Appointments
1995-present Director, Pan American Center for Earth and Environmental Studies
The University of Texas at El Paso
1989-present Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at El Paso
1987-1988 Professor of Computer Science
Texas A&M University –Commerce
1988 Summer faculty fellow
NASA Johnson Space Center/University of Houston
1981-1986 Associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
1985-1986 Senior research scientist and system autonomy demonstration project
manager
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA
1983 & 1984 Summer faculty fellow
NASA Ames Research Center/Stanford University
1977-1981 Assistant professor of electrical engineering
Auburn University
During his twenty-four years as a faculty member, Dr. Starks has received 28
research grants and contracts from a number of agencies and foundations, including
NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Naval Electronics Systems
Command. These grants and contracts have totaled over $18,000,000 in funding.
Dr. Starks has published 40 refereed journal articles and over 140 papers in
conference proceedings. These have been focused in the areas of pattern recognition,
signal processing, remote sensing, computer simulation, and engineering education.
He has also received a number of awards for excellence as an instructor, including
the Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Engineering for the year 2000.
He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Recent Referred Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Starks, Scott and Kreinovich, Vladik, “Aerospace applications of soft computing
and interval computations (with an emphasis on simulation and modeling),” to
appear in the Journal of Systems Analysis – Modelling–Simulation.
Starks, Scott and V. Kreinovich, “Interval methods and their application:
invited sessions at the World Automation Conference,” Reliable Computing,
Vol. 7(1), pp. 67-68, Feb. 2001.
Gibson, Stephen, Kreinovich, V., Longpre, L., Penn, B., and Starks, S., “Intelligent
mining in image databases with applications to satellite imaging and to web search,” in
Data Mining and Computation, A. Kandel, M. Last, and H. Bunke (eds.), Heidelberg:
Physica-Verlag, pp. 309-336, 2001.
Ward, C.A. and Starks, S.A., “An approach to predict Africanized honey
bee migration using remote sensing,” Computers and Electrical Engineering,
Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 33-45, Jan. 2000.
Starks, S.A. and V. Kreinovich, “Multi-spectral inverse problems in satellite
image processing,” in SPIE Papers on CD-ROM series, Vol. 8: Mathematical
Imaging and Vision Mathematical Imaging, Gerhard Ritter (Ed.), Dec. 1999.
Starks, S.A. and D.W. Elizandro, “Interval computations: An approach for
analyzing uncertainty in engineering education,” ASEE Computers in Education
Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 59-62, 1999.
Kreinovich, Vladik, Brian Penn and Scott Starks, “From expert words directly
to numerical simulations: Group-theoretic approach to computing with words in
system analysis,” in Computing with Words in System Analysis, L.A. Zadeh
and J. Kacprzyk, Eds., Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 495-517, 1999.
Starks, Scott A. and Vladik Kreinovich, “Locating the whole pattern is
better than locating its pieces: A geometric explanation of an empirical phenomenon,” Geombinatorics,
Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 116-121, April 1999.
Starks, S.A. and V. Kreinovich, “Environmental-oriented processing of multi-spectral
satellite images: New applications and challenges for Bayesian methods and maximum
entropy,” in Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, G. Erickson, J. Rychert
and C. Smith: Eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 271-276, 1998.
Merenyi, Erzebet, Scott Starks, and Karen Villaverde, “Hyper-spectral satellite
images: Interval methods may be helpful,” Reliable Computing, Vol. 4, No.
4, pp. 395-397, 1998.
Starks, S.A., V. Kreinovich, and A. Meystel, “Multi-resolution data processing:
It is necessary, It is possible, It is fundamental, “Heuristics, The Journal
of Intelligent Technologies, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 51 - 59, Spring 1998.
Scott Starks and Vladik Kreinovich, "Soft Computing: Frontiers? A Case Study
of Hyper-Spectral Satellite Imagery, in Frontiers in Soft Computing and Decision
Systems, Larry Medsker, Ed., AAAI Press (Publication No. FS-97-04), 1997, pp.
52-57.
Kreinovich, V., S. Starks and G. Mayer, “On a justification of the choice
of epsilon-inflation in Pascal-XSC,” Reliable Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4,
pp. 437-452, 1997.
Starks, S.A., D.E. Cooke and G.R. Keller, "Earth and environmental science
remote sensing at PACES," GEOCARTO, International, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 101-104,
Sept. 1997.
Koshelev, M. and S. Starks, “Energy from space: a new potential application
of interval computations,” ACM SIGNUM, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 9-13, July 1997.
Recent Grants and Cooperative Agreements
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Continuation for the Pan American Center for Earth and Environmental Studies,” Principal
Investigator, NASA, $5,200,000, (period of performance: 6/00-6/05.)
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The Pan American Center for Earth and Environmental Studies," Principal
Investigator, NASA, $6,329,953 (period of performance: 7/95 -6/00.)
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Science, business and engineering activities in support of the MUSE Satellite,” Principal
Investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, $179,631, (period of performance: 5/96-9/98.)
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The University of Texas System Alliance for Minority Participation," Director,
National Science Foundation, $4,970,659 (period of performance: 9/92 - 9/97.)
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Continuous engineering, science and technology advancement for underrepresented
minorities," Principal Investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, $574,928
(period of performance: 6/93 - 6/96.)
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Automated state and trend monitoring via time series methods," Principal
Investigator, NASA Johnson Space Center, $61,613 (period of performance: 10/94
- 10/95.)
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Interdisciplinary investigations in support of Project DI-MOD," Principal
Investigator, NASA Ames Research Center, $291,000 (period of performance: 9/90
- 8/95.) |
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