Education:

• Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering, Fall 1997.
  Thesis Topic: ``Incidents on the Freeway: Detection and Management''
  Committee: Profs. Pravin P. Varaiya (Advisor), Shankar S. Sastry and Carlos F. Daganzo.
• M. S. University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering, May 1993.
  M. S. Report - ``PATHO Real-Time Operating System Users Manual''
• B. S. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mi., Electrical Engineering, June 1991, highest honors.

Professional Interests:

Seeking challenging position in the field of high-speed communication networks. Specifically, software design and implementation, database management, system integration, data flow analysis, and client-server architecture over networks.

Research Experience:

• University of California, Berkeley (Graduate-Student Researcher) - 1993 to present.
  Joined the PATH program at UC Berkeley. Participated in studies to evaluate the effectiveness of FSP tow trucks in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles. Designed and developed software system to maintain, manipulate, and process large amounts of freeway data and to ultimately calculate a benefit to cost ratio for the FSP tow trucks. Participated in the design and testing of a macroscopic traffic flow model. Currently investigating different aspects of the Freeway Service Patrol programs including optimal tow truck placement strategies and the impacts of various incident management systems.
• University of California, Berkeley (Graduate-Student Researcher) 1991-1993.
  Modified and enhanced a real-time operating system for use in PC's. Worked on theoretical verification of the correctness of this operating system.

Industrial Experience:

• Independent Computer Consultant, - 1994 to present.
  Worked as an independent computer consultant for Infobahn Inc. designing and building world wide web CGI scripts. Specifically for the area of database extraction, form generation, and dynamic data presentation of information on web sites.
• Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY (Co-op Student) - 1988 to 1991 (total of 8 work blocks).
  Worked in two different research groups over eight different workblocks primarily in the area of graphical user interface design for image inspection systems. Did some work on computer monitor calibration software.

Teaching Experience:

• National Technological University and University of California, Berkeley - Spring 1996.
  Course consultant for EECS 228A / NTU CC 782-CA: High Speed Communications Networks, a graduate course in electrical engineering covering all aspects of high speed communication networks, but geared towards ATM, taught by Profs. Pravin Varaiya and Jean Walrand. This course was broadcast to professional engineers at prominent companies like Motorola and IBM.
• University of California, Berkeley - Spring 1992.
  Graduate-Student Instructor of EECS 104: Linear and Non-linear Circuits, an undergraduate course in electrical engineering taught by Profs. Leon Chua and Ernest Kuh. This course covers the basics in linear and non-linear systems analysis.
• University of California, Berkeley - Fall 1991.
  Graduate-Student Instructor of EECS 105: Microelectronic Devices and Circuits, an undergraduate course in electrical engineering taught by Prof. Richard S. Muller and Dr. Gani Jusuf. This course has both laboratory sessions and discussion sections.

Computer Skills:

• Languages: C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Expect, Java, csh, HTML, matlab. Used to know: fortran, pascal, assembly.
• Operating systems: Unix, Solaris, DOS, Windows.
• Specific large projects: 1) Designed and implemented xdistribute, a process distribution system based on client/server architecture (written in perl and Tcl/Tk). 2) Built a system to test, in a distributed manner, the spanning tree routing protocol (written in C). 3) Built PATHO a real-time operating system for DOS (written in C and 8086 assembler). 4) Designed and implemented pathqr, a Web/CGI/Database system to allow efficient management of the PATH Quarterly Reports (written in perl, Postgres and SQL). 5) Designed simulator within Ptolemy environment to test different Available Bit Rate flow control algorithms over an ATM (written in C++ type language).
• Network experience: TCP/IP (lots of sockets-type programming), ATM.

Awards:

• Department of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, Outstanding TA Award - 1993.
• UC Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies Fellowship - 1991.

Service:

• Part of team that designed and built the WWW pages for the PATH program at UC Berkeley, 1994 to 1996.
• Graduate Student Advisory Committee - Fall 1995.
• Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Association - Officer 1993 to 1994.
• Founder and current manager of the Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Softball League (~100 players) - 1993 to present.

Professional Memberships:

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Control Systems, Communications, and Networking Societies - Member.

Academic Organizations:

• Eta Kappa Nu - Member.
• Tau Beta Pi - Member.
• Phi Kappa Phi - Member.

Outside Interests:

• Whitewater kayaking, Downhill skiing, Scuba diving, Windsurfing, Skydiving, racquetball, and basketball.

Publications (by topic):

Freeway Service Patrol

• K. Petty, H. Noeimi, K. Sanwal, D. Rydzewski, A. Skabardonis, P. Varaiya, H. Al-Deek, ``The Freeway Service Patrol Evaluation Project: Database Support Programs, and Accessibility,'' Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 4, no. 3, 1996.
• K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P. Varaiya, ``Methodology for Estimating the Impacts of Incident Management Measures,'' Proceedings of the Third World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, ITS America, Orlando, Florida, October 1996, paper #1051.
• K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P. Varaiya, ``The Optimal Placement of FSP Tow Trucks,'' ASCE Specialty Conference on Traffic Congestion and Traffic Safety in the 21st Century, Chicago, Illinois, June 1997 (to appear in proceedings).
• K. Petty, ``Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) 1.1: The Analysis Software for the FSP Project,'' California PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-95-20, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, June 1995.
• A. Skabardonis, H. Noeimi, K. Petty, D. Rydzewski, P. Varaiya, H. Al-Deek, ``Freeway Service Patrol Evaluation,'' California PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-95-5, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February 1995.
• K. F. Petty, ``The Freeway Service Patrol: Bay Area (data), Los Angeles Area (problems),'' presented at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences Transportation Workshop, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, October, 1995.
• A. Skabardonis, K. Petty, H. Noeimi, D. Rydzewski, P. Varaiya, ``The I-880 Field Experiment: Database Development and Incident Delay Estimation Procedures,'' Transportation Research Record #1554, pp. 128-135, 1996.
• A. Skabardonis, K. F. Petty, R. L. Bertini, P. P. Varaiya, ``The I-880 Field Experiment: Analysis of the Incident Data,'' paper 970121 presented at the 76th Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1997.

Freeway Travel Time / Dynamics / Incident Detection

• K. F. Petty, P. Bickel, J. Jiang, M. Ostland, J. Rice, Y. Ritov, F. Schoenberg, ``Accurate Estimation of Travel Times from Single-Loop Detectors,'' accepted for publication Transportation Research, Part B (Methodological).
• K. F. Petty, P. Bickel, J. Jiang, M. Ostland, J. Rice, Y. Ritov, F. Schoenberg, ``Accurate Estimation of Travel Times from Single-Loop Detectors,'' paper 971043 presented at the 76th Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1997.
• K. F. Petty, P. Bickel, J. Jiang, M. Ostland, J. Rice, Y. Ritov, F. Schoenberg, ``Travel Time Estimation on Freeways,'' presented at the Fifth Annual PATH Program-Wide Research Meeting on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Richmond, CA, October 1996.
• K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P.P. Varaiya, ``Incident Detection with Probe Vehicles: Performance, Infrastructure Requirements, and Feasibility,'' accepted for presentation 8th IFAC Symposium on Transportation Systems, Chania, Greece, June 16-18, 1997.
• K. F. Petty, A. Skabardonis, P.P. Varaiya, ``Sensor Fusion for Incident Detection,'' accepted for presentation Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 97, San Diego, CA, May 4-7, 1997.
• K. K. Sanwal, K. Petty, J. Walrand, Y. Fawaz, ``An Extended Macroscopic Model for Traffic Flow,'' Transportation Research, Part B (Methodological), vol. 30B, no. 1, pp. 1-9, Feb. 1996.

Process Distribution

• K. F. Petty, N. McKeown, ``Xdistribute: A Process Distribution System,'' University of California, Berkeley, Electronics Research Lab Research Report #UCB/ERL M96/67, November, 1996.

Real-Time Operating Systems/Verification

• F. Balarin, K. Petty, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, P. Varaiya, ``Formal Verification of the PATHO Real-Time Operation System,'' Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, December 14-16, 1996, pp. 2459-2465.
• Karl F. Petty, ``PATHO Real-Time Operating System Users Manual,'' Masters of Science Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, June, 1993.

Channel Allocation

• F. H. Eskafi, K. F. Petty, P. Varaiya, ``Dynamic Channel Allocation for Vehicle to Vehicle Communications in IVHS,'' presented at the 1997 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, November 9-12, 1997.