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Mario E. Magaña ,  Associate Professor

Prof. Magaña received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, in 1979, his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1980, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1987. From June 1980 to August of 1986, he held various research and development engineering positions in the Harris Corporation and the Boeing Company. From August 1987 to September 1989 he was a member of the faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Since September of 1989 he has been a member of the faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.  Prof. Magaña is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of HKN.

Research Interests:

  • Telecommunications
  • Nonlinear and Adaptive Control
  • Mathematical Modelling of Biological Processes
  • Signal Processing

 

Journal Publications:

1)   Magaña, M. E. and Zak, S., "Robust State Feedback Stabilization of Discrete Uncertain Dynamical Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 887-891, September 1988.

2)   Magaña, M. E. and Zak, S., "Output Feedback Stabilization of Discrete-Time Uncertain Dynamical Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 33, No. 11, pp. 1082-1085, November 1988.

3)    Magaña, M. E. and Tagami, S., "An Improved Trajectory Tracking Decentralized Adaptive Controller for Robot Manipulators,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 477-482, October 1994.

4)    Magaña, M. E., Maier, S., and Kaattari, S., "The Analysis of Limiting Dilution Assays Conducted Under Non-Saturating Conditions," Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 179, pp. 173-177, 1996.

5)    Magaña, M. E., Volz, P., and Miller, T., "Non-Linear Decentralized Control of a Flexible Cable-Stayed Beam Structure," Trans. of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 119, No. 4, pp. 523-526, October 1997.

6)    Maier, S., Magaña, M. E., Kaattari, Mohler, R., "Modified Limiting Dilution Assay for Cell Systems," Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 78, pp. 1579-1584, 1996.

7)   Magaña, M. E. and Myers, T., "An Adaptive Implementation of the "One-Shot" Decorrelating for CDMA Communications," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 44, pp. 762-765, September 1997.

8)   Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J., “Decentralized Control of Segmented Dynamic Surfaces,” Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 145-160, December 1997.

9)     Magaña, M. E. and Holzapfel, F., “fuzzy Logic Control of an Inverted Pendulum with Vision Feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 165-170, May 1998.

10)  Rabinowitz, D and Magaña, M. E., “Decision Feedback for IS-95 Uplink Frame Decoding,” IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 527-532, 1999.

11) Rabinowitz, D. and Magaña, M. E., “A Decision Feedback Reverse Link Receiver Implementation for IS-95 CDMA Communications,” International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 208-217, November 1999

12)  Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J., “Nonlinear Decentralized Active Tendon Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges,” Journal of Structural Control, vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 45-62, June 1998.

13)  Magaña, M. E. and Myers, T. F., “A Systolic Array Implementation of the One-Shot Decorrelating Detector Used for CDMA Communications,” International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 219-229, November 1999.

14)  Volz, P. U., Magaña, M. E., and Speidel, J., “Performance Improvement of IS-95 CDMA Uplink Using Decision Feedback and Sub-Optimal Viterbi Decoding,” International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 193-209, 2001.

15)  Volz, P. U. and Magaña, M. E., “A New Block Interleaver and Non-Iterative Decision Feedback Decoding Enhance Performance of IS-95 CDMA Uplink,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 690-699, July 2002.

16)  Buck, D. H., Magaña, M. E., and Speidel, J. “Improvement of Date Rate Performance of Wireless Local Area Networks Through the Use of Orthogonal Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM) and Parallel Concatenated (TURBO) Coding,” International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 293-305,.July 2003.

17)  Delgado, F. and Magaña, M. E., “A Fuzzy Logic Controller Design for a Sawmill Bucking System,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 628-634, April 2005.

18)  Venkatesan, V., Liu, H., and Magaña, “Performance of frequency hopped noncoherent GFSK in time-varying Raleigh fading channels,” International Journal of Wireless and Optical Communications, vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 1-11, 2004.

19)  Rajatasereekul, T. and Magaña, M. E., “QAM Modem Design for a Highly Efficient New Multi-carrier CDMA Wireless Communication System,” accepted for publication in the IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology.

20)  Moranvil, W., Magaña, M. E., « A Communication System Based on Walsh-Hadamard Codes and Constellations for Fading Environments, » accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

 

Conference Publications

1)  Magaña, M. E., "Optimal Sampled-Data Linear Tracking," Southeastcon '84, Louisville, KY, April 1984, presenter.

2)  Magaña, M. E. Zak, S., "Output Feedback Control of Continuous and Discrete-Time Uncertain Dynamical Systems," Fifth International Conference on Systems Engineer­ing, Dayton, OH, September 1987, presenter.

3)  Magaña, M. E., "Stabilization of Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems Via Projection Methods,” Proceed­ings, 21st Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, March 26-28, 1989, presenter.

4)  Magaña, M. E. and Mott, J., "Determination of Maximum Parameter Uncertainty in Output Feedback Stabilized Discrete-Time Dynamic Systems," SIAM Conference on Control in the 90's, San Francisco, CA, May 17-19, 1989, presenter.

5)  Magaña, M.E.; Mott, J.H., “Construction of Lyapunov function that maximizes the parameter uncertainty that can be handled by output feedback stabilized discrete-time dynamic systems,”; Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1993. 'Systems Engineering in the Service of Humans', Conference Proceedings., International Conference on 17-20 Oct. 1993 Page(s):69 - 74 vol.1

6)  Magaña, M. E., "A Lie Algebraic Approach to the Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Dynamic Systems," Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering, Dayton, OH, August 1989, presenter.

7)   Mohler, R. R., Lee, K. S., and Magaña, "Cell Kinetics, Tumors and Immunocontrol," Proceedings, International Seminar on Modeling and Signal Processing of Cellular Systems, University of Ulm, Germany, October 1990.

8)  Magaña, M. E., and Dai, R., "A Nonlinear Decentralized Adaptive Controller for Robotic Manipula­tors," Proceedings, Third Int. Conference on Advances in Communication and Control Systems, Victoria, B.C., Canada, October 1991, presenter.

9)  Magaña, M. E., Hernried, A., and Scheer, D., "Robust Control of Cable-Supported Bridge Structures," Proceedings of the Ninth VPI&SU Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Large Structures, Blacksburg, Virginia, May 1993, presenter.

10)  Magaña, M. E. and Myers, T. F., "An Implementation of a Near-Far Resistant Multiuser Detector Without Matrix Inversion Using Delta-Sigma Modulation," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Communication and Control, Rhodes, Greece, June of 1993, presenter.

11)  Mohler, R. R., Zakrzewski, R. R., and Magaña, M. E., "Neural-Based Control and Communication in Immunology and Engineering," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Communication and Control, Rhodes, Greece, June of 1993.

12)  Magaña, M. E. and Mott, J., "Construction of Lyapunov Function that Maximizes the Parameter Uncertainty that can be Handled by Output Feedback Stabilized Discrete-Time Dynamic Systems," Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Le Touquet, France, October 17-20, 1993, presenter.

13)  Magaña, M. E., Hernried, A., and Scheer, D., "Robust Active Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges Subjected to Earthquake Ground Motion," Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Analysis and Computation, the 94 Structures Congress, April 24-28, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994, presenter.

14)  Volz, P., Magaña, M. E., Hernried, A., and Miller, T., "A Decentralized Active Controller for Cable-Stayed Bridges," Proceedings of the First World Conference on Structural Control, Los Angeles, California, August 1994, presenter.

15)  Magaña, M. E., Maier, S., Kaattari, S., and Mohler, R. R., "A Modified Limiting Dilution Analysis Method for Determining the Presence of Immune Cells," Proceedings of the First Asian Control Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 27-31, 1994, presenter.

16)  Onu, D, Hernried, A., and Magaña, M. E., "Robust Control of a Nonlinear Two-Cable Suspended Concentrated-Mass System," Proceedings of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Boulder, CO, May 21-24, 1995.

17)  Ch'ng, G. B., Hernried, A. G., and Magaña, M. E., "Active Control of a Cable-Stayed Guideway," Proceedings of the 1995 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 21-23, 1995.

18)  Smith, D. R., Cortés-Medellín, G., and Magaña, M. E., "Reducing Common Mode Noise Effects in Hexagonally Segmented Active Surfaces," Proceedings IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Manufacturing, Cancun, Mexico, June 1995.

19)  Magaña, M. E., Martinez, J, and Soria, J., "Decentralized Active Control of Segmented Surfaces," Proceedings of the First European Structural Control Conference, Barcelona, Spain, May 1996, presenter.

20)  Magaña, M. E. and Rabinowitz, D., “An Algorithm for IS-95 Uplink Decoding that Uses Decision Feedback,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Communication and Control, Corfu, Greece, June of 1997, presenter.

21)  Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, “Optimal Actuator Positioning for Vibration Control of Plates,” Proceedings of the 15th Congress on Applied Mathematics, Vigo, Spain, September 1997, presenter.

22)     Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, “Decentralized Active Control of a Segment of a Cable-Stayed Bridge Subjected to Seismic Motion,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Active Control of Mechanical Engineering, Lyon, France, October 1997, presenter.

23)     Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J., “Active Nonlinear Robust Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges in the Presence of Strong Vertical Ground Motion due to Earthquakes,” Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Structural Control, Japan, pp. 1947-1955, July 1998, presenter.

24)     Luo, N., Rodellar, J., De la Sen, M, and Magaña, M. E., “Decentralized Sliding Mode Control of a Two-Cable-Stayed Bridge,” Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop-SMART98, pp. 183-192, Poland, June 1998, presenter.

25)  Magaña, M. E., Rodellar, J. J., Casas, J. R., and Mas, J., “Active Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges,” Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop–SMART98, pp. 193-202, Poland, June 1998, presenter.

26)  Luo, N., Rodellar, J, De la Sen, M., and Magaña, M. E., “Decentralized MRC-VS of Multi-Cable-Stayed Bridges,” Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Structural Control, Japan, pp. 1011-1020, July 1998.

27)  Volz, P. U. and Magaña, M. E., “Decision Feedback for IS-95 CDMA Uplink in Multipath and Rayleigh Fading,” Proceedings of the GLOBECOM 98 conference, pp. 920-924, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.

28)  Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J. J., “Fuzzy Logic Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges in the Presence of Seismic Excitation,” Proceedings of the SEM/IMAC-XVII conference, Orlando, Florida, pp. 738-744, February 1999, presenter.

29)  Monroy, C., Rodellar, J., and Magaña, M. E., “A Decentralized Strategy for Active Vibration Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Problems in Vibration Theory and Application, Xian, China, June 19-22, 2000.

30)  Monroy, C., Rodellar, J., and Magaña, M. E., “Performance Analysis of a Robust Local Active Control Scheme of Cable-Stayed Bridges,” Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Structural Control, Paris, July 3-6, 2000.

31)  Volz, P. U. and Magaña, M. E., “Performance Improvement of IS-95 Through Non-iterative Decision Feedback Decoding and a Modified Interleaver,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing, Singapore, October 2001.

32)  Buck, D. H. Magaña, M. E., and Speidel, J., “Orthogonal Code Division Multiplexing and Parallel Concatenated (Turbo) Coding can Improve IEEE 802.11 Data Transmission Rate,” Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2001 Conference, San Antonio, pp. 1103-1108, November 2001.

33)  Liu, H., Venkatesan, V., Nilsen, C., and Magaña, M. E., “Performance of Frequency Hopped Noncoherent GFSK in Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the IEEE ICC 2003 Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2003.

34)  Tjahjadi, A., Magaña, M. E., and Liu, H., “Turbo-Coded OCC-CDMA with Spatial Diversity for Wireless Mobile Communications,” Proceedings of the Wireless 2003 Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 390-394, July 2003.

35)  Liu, H., Venkatesan, V., and Magaña, M. E., “Performance of an Optimally Spaced PPM Ultra-wideband System” Proceedings of the IEEE VTC-2003 Conference, September 2003.

36)  Magaña, M. E. and Liu, H., “A Multi-carrier CDMA System Design Based on Orthogonal Complementary Codes,” Proceedings of the IEEE VTC-2003 Conference, September 2003.

37)  Magaña, M. E., “Mathematical modeling of the interaction of the immune system and antigen,” Proceedings of the Southeastern Europe, USA, Japan and European Community Workshop on Research and Education in Control and Signal Processing, Croatia, June 2004.

38)  Bogya, R. and Magaña, M. E., “Linear RF Power Amplifier Design Using Non-linear Feedback Linearization Techniques,” Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, September 2004.

39)  Bogya, R. and Magaña, M. E., “RF Power Amplifier Linearization Using Multiplicative Error Non-linear Feedback,” Proceedings of the 49th Internationales Wissenschaftliches Kollowuium der Techniscehn Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, September 2004.

40)  Magaña, M. E. and Bogya, R. I., “Feedback Control Applied to a Class E Power Amplifier to Decrease Parameter Sensitivity,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Design and Latin American CAS Tour, Veracruz, Mexico, November 16-19, 2004.

 

Books and Book Chapters

1)    Magaña, M. E., “Decentralized Active Control of Cable-Stayed Bridges,” a chapter in the book titled Advances in Structural Control, Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, 1999.

2)      Magaña, M. E. and Rodellar, J., “Active Control of Dynamic Surfaces,” Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.

 

Courses Taught

·     ECE 203, Electrical Engineering Fundamentals.

·     ECE 351, Signals and Systems I.

·     ECE 352, Signals and Systems II.

·     ECE 353, Introduction to Probability and Random Signals.

·     ECE 452, Control Engineering I (analog control systems)

·     ECE 453, Control Engineering II (digital control systems)

·     ECE 461, Communications I (analog modulation and basics of random processes).

·     ECE 462, Communications II (baseband and passband digital modulation).

·     ECE 463, Communications III (information theory and coding).

·     ECE 550, Linear Systems Theory.

·     ECE 555, Design of Optimal Control of Linear Systems.

·     ECE 560, Stochastic Processes.

·     ECE 567, Advanced Digital Signal Processing

·     ECE 578, Digital Computer Communications and Networks.

·     ECE 580, Network Theory.

·     ECE 661, Advanced Digital Communications.

·     ECE 662, Advanced Coding Theory.

·     ECE 669, Special Topics on Advanced Coding Theory for Mobile Communications.

·     ECE 669, Special Topics on CDMA Mobile Communications Systems.

·     ECE 669, Special Topics on TDMA Mobile Communications Systems.

 

Address

Oregon State University
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
3003 Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501


magana@eecs.oregonstate.edu 

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