David Leyba

Current

• R&D Software Engineer at Agilent Technologies

Past

• R&D Software QA Engineer at Agilent Technologies
• Research Assistant at University of Colorado at Boulder
• Senior Design Project at Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems

• Undergraduate Research Assistant at NASA/PURSUE Program at the University of New Mexico

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Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder
• The University of New Mexico

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

David Leyba’s Experience

• R&D Software Engineer

  Agilent Technologies

  (Public Company; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• R&D Software QA Engineer

  Agilent Technologies

  (Public Company; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  May 2006 — April 2007 (1 year)

• Research Assistant

  University of Colorado at Boulder

  (Research industry)

  August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  - Designed error correction coding schemes for various channels using Low Density Parity Check Codes; Implemented the coding schemes in C and Matlab for simulation.
  
  - Researched various topics in bioinformatics, computational biology, and genetic signal processing including sequence and gene alignment algorithms, gene regulatory networks, and cDNA microarray design.
  
  PUBLICATIONS:
  O. Milenkovic, D.Leyba, and N. Kashyap, Shortened Array Codes of Large Girth, IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 3707-3722, August 2006.
  
  D. Leyba, O. Milenkovic, D. Bennett, and N. Kashyap, New Partition Regular Sequences and Array Codes of
  Large Girth, presented at the 42nd Allerton Conference on CCC, September 2004.

• Senior Design Project

  Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems

  (Public Company; Defense & Space industry)

  September 2002 — May 2003 (9 months)

  - Scalable Data Concentrator (SDC) for potential future use in aircraft and other military vehicles with a team of five students.
  
  - Responsible for the Adaptable Discrete I/O module design, including documentation; assembled two prototype printed circuit boards.

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  NASA/PURSUE Program at the University of New Mexico

  (Research industry)

  June 2002 — May 2003 (1 year)

  - Developed an educational robot as an introduction to science and engineering for high school students in a team of four.
  
  - Designed all electrical components of the robot including Digital and Analog I/O ports, Motor Control System, and Microprocessor Interface with on board systems; created Java libraries to integrate on board systems with microprocessor; and created example Java methods for basic robotic behaviors.
  
  - Mentored high school students interested in science and engineering.

David Leyba’s Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder

  MSEE , Signal Processing and Communications , 2003 — 2005

• The University of New Mexico

  BSEE cum laude , Electrical Engineering , 2000 — 2003

Additional Information

David Leyba’s Honors:

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
- Graduate Student Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2005

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, LINCOLN LABORATORY
- Graduate Student Fellowship, 2004 - 2005

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
- Outstanding Student Service Award, 2003

TAU BETA PI, NATIONAL ENGINEERING HONOR SOCIETY
- Member Since 2003

ETA KAPPA NU, NATIONAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HONOR SOCIETY
- Member Since 2002, Vice President of Delta Omicron Chapter at University of New Mexico, 2002

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