Alberto Cerpa

CTO and Founder at Alsen Inc.

Merced, California, United States

About Alberto Cerpa

Alberto Cerpa is CTO and Founder at Alsen Inc. Location: Merced, California, United States.

* Eight years of academic research experience in wireless communications, embedded systems, sensor networks, and mobile computing at UCM. Obtained and managed as PI or Co-PI research projects totaling more than $2M in funding from various federal funding agencies (NSF, DOE) and state agencies/centers (CEC, CIEE, CITRIS). Current research focused on wireless communication systems and protocols, distributed wireless sensing and actuation, and on pervasive sensing and computing applications to solve engineering grand challenges problems (energy, health and tools for scientific discovery). * Ten years of consulting experience in advanced industrial R&D and product development in computer networks, working as a paid consultant to develop communication protocols for companies like NetApp, Akamai, and Xerox. * Three years of experience working in the telecommunications industry, working for Alcatel-France and Startel, and deploying the initial base Internet infrastructure in Argentina. * Several years of experience in the organization and program committees of top technical conferences from ACM and IEEE. Specialties: My research interests include embedded systems, wireless communication, sensor and actuation networks, protocol design. Proposal writing for NSF and other funding agencies, research project management, teaching, student advising, patent advising.

Skills

  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Embedded Networked Systems
  • Cyber-Physical Systems

Additional experience

  • Associate Professor and Founding Faculty in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    University of California, Merced

    Started July 2013

Education

  • Ph.D., UCLA
  • M.Sc., University of Southern California