Professor Julio Urbina

Julio V. Urbina received his BS degree in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria in Lima, Peru in 1989 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1989-1993, he worked as a RF and Digital Engineer at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory in Peru. In 2002, he joined the faculty of the Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is currently an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.

His recent research interests are on digital systems and space instrumentation, software defined radio, sensors, acquisiton and morphware systems, meteor science, radio wave remote sensing, and radar studies of the atmosphere and ionosphere.