Roger M. Goldwyn
Application letter to
the search committee.
As
you are aware, I have just completed my first semester at FAU, which marked my full return to academia after
more than a thirty-year stay in industry Research and Development Labs. I have truly enjoyed teaching this semester
and I understand the challenges we are facing in a “commuter school”
environment. The good students are a
delight. The not so good students—well,
we all worry about how to reach and motivate them hoping to discover the
unpolished gem.
I
am honored that some faculty members feel that I could be of help to the
department in the role of Department Chair.
As you may have determined from my résumé, I have had
considerable management experience in research and development
organizations. I was significantly
involved in promoting the research interests of the people and groups under my
supervision while portions of my activities were administrative. This also meant securing funding and
identifying the right partnerships with other organizations or groups within
the company and at universities.
My
own initial research was primarily in systems theory where I had a number of
Ph.D. students while at Rice University.
(See attachment.) My focus has
always been to use challenging application areas amenable to mathematical
solutions and to let this work drive my research and subsequent implementations
when appropriate. Such a trail is
shown on my résumé. It documents some of my research and
management experience as well as the establishment of joint partnerships. In addition, I have asked for my references
to document for you some of these activities with which they were
familiar.
I would welcome an
opportunity to work with the mathematics faculty
to foster the individual and collective goals of the faculty. This could be in securing and/or expanding
partnerships with industry and joint programs within the university as well as
securing external funding and fostering activities to help us attract some of
the best local students. I believe I
can help and would look forward to working with the faculty to enable our
department to become even more vital to the university and the community.
ATTACHMENT
Office: Science and Engineering
Building, Room 270
Office Hours: On scheduled class days as posted with a
course syllabus. Other times by appointment. Subject to change. Additional
hours before examinations and final.
Phone: 561-297-2487. Leave message with department
office—561-297-3340
Email: rgoldwyn@fau.edu
1.Application of the
Karhunen-Loeve Expansion by Morton Dan Patrick Groves
1.Time Optimal Control of
Linear Distributed Parameter Systems by K. P. Sriram
1.Time Optimal Control
of the State and Parameters for an Autonomous Linear System Based on
Measurements Containing Noise by Terrance M. Carney
1.Topological Solution Techniques
for Nonlinear Differential Equations by Laird De Lacey Sloan
1.Waveform Analysis
Using Digital Technique by E. Gottlieb
Research Interests
Systems
theory, biomedical data processing, complex data analysis, transform theory,
perturbation theory, speech recognition and processing.
Education
·
Harvard
University
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Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics
·
AM
·
Rice
University
·
MS in Electrical
Engineering
·
BS in Electrical
Engineering
·
BA
1. Application
of the
Karhunen-Loeve Expansion by Morton Dan Patrick Groves
2. Time
Optimal Control of Linear Distributed Parameter Systems by K. P. Sriram
3. Time
Optimal Control of the State and Parameters for an Autonomous Linear System
Based on Measurements Containing Noise
by Terrance M. Carney
4. Topological
Solution Techniques for Nonlinear Differential Equations by Laird De Lacey
Sloan
5. Waveform
Analysis Using Digital Technique by E. Gottlieb
·
Rice University
·
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
·
Applied mathematics and
control theory. Initiated biomedical
program with Baylor University College of Medicine.
·
IBM
·
Research Staff Member,
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
·
Senior Manager, Thomas J.
Watson Research Center
·
Manager Advanced System
Products
·
Worldwide Research and Development
Manager for Speech Recognition
·
Research in complex data
analysis and modeling, biomedical data processing, cluster analysis, digital line switching,
digital signal processing
·
Product research and development in
conversational speech recognition,
relational data base, expert systems.
·
Consultant, Technology Officer, and Entrepreneur
·
Speech recognition
·
Medical systems