Walter (Daniel) Leon-Salas, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

wleonsal@purdue.edu

765-494-7493

https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wleonsal/index.html

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401 N. Grant St.

West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

Biography

Dr. Leon-Salas received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University. His research interests are in the areas of CMOS image sensors, solar energy harvesting, optical communications and optical devices. Dr. Leon-Salas directs the tinyLab which is dedicated to the integration of electronic circuits with optical devices. He has published over 70 journal and conference papers in these areas. Dr. Leon-Salas teaches classes in digital signal processing and digital circuit design. In 1996 he received the first place in the national undergraduate project competition in INTERCON for his project Neuro-Fuzzy Controller. He received the Best Doctoral Dissertation award from the College of Engineering at UNL in 2007, the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2011, the Outstanding Faculty in Discovery award from the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University in 2014 and the best runner up live demo award in the 2018 IEEE ISCAS conference. He has served as a reviewer for several journals, as a proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation and is a regular session chair and Review Committee Member (RCM) for the IEEE ISCAS conference. He is the Secretary elect for the IEEE Sensory Systems Technical Committee.

Outstanding Faculty in Discovery, School of Engineering Technology, Purdue University, 2014.

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2011.

Leadership Excellence Achievement Program (LEAP) Award from the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, 2011.

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007.

First place, National Undergraduate Project Competition, IEEE International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science (INTERCON), Trujillo, Peru, 1996.

Selected Publications:

X. Chen, H. Hall, J. P. Simpson, W. D. Leon-Salas, D. Ready, V. Weake, “Cytochrome b5 protects photoreceptors from light stress-induced lipid peroxidation and retinal degeneration,” Aging and Mechanisms of Disease, vol. 18, doi: 10.1038/s41514-017-0019-6, 2017.

X. Chen, W. D. Leon-Salas, T. Zigon, D. F. Ready and V. Weake, "A programmable optical stimulator for the Drosophila eye," Hardware X, vol. 2, pp. 13-33, 2017.

W. D. Leon-Salas and C. Halmen, "A RFID sensor for corrosion monitoring in concrete", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no, 1, 2016

W. D. Leon-Salas, "Low-complexity compression for sensory systems", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 62, no. 4, 322-326, 2015.

H. T. Wang and W. D. Leon-Salas, W. D, "An image sensor with joint sensing and energy harvesting functions", IEEE Sensors Journal, 15(2), 902-916, 2015.

G. Moayeri, M. Benyhesan and W. D. Leon-Salas, "Energy harvesting using substrate photodiodes", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – II, 61(7), 501-505, 2014.

S. Ghosh, H. T. Wang, and W. D. Leon-Salas, "A circuit for energy harvesting using on-chip solar cells", IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 29(9), 4658-4671, 2014.

F. Moiz, S. Kumar, W. D. Leon-Salas and M. Johnson, "An embedded multichannel telemetry unit for bone strain monitoring", EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, 14, doi:10.1186/1687-3963-2013-14, 2013

W. D. Leon-Salas, H. Rizk, C. Mo, L. Brotto., N. Weisleder, E. Abreu and M. Brotto, "A dual mode pulsed electro-magnetic cell stimulator produces acceleration of myogenic differentiation. Recent Patents in Biotechnology. 7(1), 71-81, 2013.

C. Beard, Z. Chen, V. Kumar, Y. Lee, W. D. Leon-Salas, and P. Rao, "SAVEUS: Saving Victims in Earthquakes through Unified Systems", International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 10(4), 402-420, 2013.

L. Zhiqiang, M. W. Hoffman, N. Schemm, W. D. Leon-Salas and S. Balkir, "A CMOS image sensor for multi-level focal plane image decomposition", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I, 55(9), 2561-2572, 2008.

W. D. Leon-Salas, S. Balkir, K. Sayood, N. Schemm and M. Hoffman, "A CMOS imager with focal plane compression using predictive coding", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 42(11), 2555-2572, 2007.

W. D. Leon-Salas, S. Balkir, K. Sayood, N. Schemm and M. Hoffman, "A low-complexity circuit for on-sensor concurrent A/D conversion and compression", IEEE Sensors Journal, 7(9), 1317-1325, 2007.

D. Leon, S. Balkir, M. W. Hoffman and L. C. Perez, "Pseudo-noise sequence generator circuits for spread spectrum communications", IEE Proceedings on Circuits, Devices and Systems, 151(6), 543-550, 2004.

Professional Affiliations:

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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