David Santoro

Chief College Laboratory Technician

Main Affiliation

Electrical Engineering

Building

Steinman Hall

Office

ST 647

Phone

(212) 650-5313

Fax

(212) 650- 8249

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David Santoro

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Dr. David Santoro joined the City College of New York in 1996 and is currently a Chief College Laboratory Technician in the Electrical Engineering Department of the City College.  He has worked in medical research in a hospital setting as well as for a medical device company developing a diagnostic device utilizing the optical properties of tissue.

He has served as a member of the Grove School of Engineering Safety Committee, Chaired numerous search committees.

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, Electrical Engineering, Fall 2012.

M.E.E., Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, Electrical Engineering, May 2002.

M.S., Biomedical Engineering , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, Biomedical Engineering, Dec. 1993.

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, Biomedical Engineering with a Minor in Chemistry, Dec. 1989.

Courses Taught

Laboratory 1 (EE221)

Laboratory 2 (EE322)

Laboratory 3 (EE323)

MicroMouse Design (EE59855)

Research Interest

Doppler Lidar, Optical Properties of Tissue

Publications

Theses

Santoro, D., "Light Propagation in Biological Tissue in the Presence of Fluorescein," Masters Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, December, 1993

Santoro, D., "Development of an Eye Safe Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar System," PhD. Dissertation, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, September 2012.

 

Book Chapter

Sameh Abdelazim, David Santoro, Mark F. Arend, Fred Moshary and Sam Ahmed (September 2nd 2020). Coherent Doppler Lidar for Wind Sensing , Spatial Variability in Environmental Science - Patterns, Processes, and Analyses, John P. Tiefenbacher and Davod Poreh, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.91811.

Articles / Posters

Santoro, David, Ostrander, Lee, Lee, Bok Y., Cagir, Burt, "Inductive 27.12 MHz. Diathermy in Arterial Peripheral Vascular Disease," Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1994.

Muller, M., Santoro, D., Chang, H.Y., Lee, B.K., Ostrander, L.E., "Oxygen Measurement During Limb Blood Flow Restriction in Primates," Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada, September, 1995.

Gross, B., Moshary, F., Santoro, D., "A Computer Controlled Implementation of Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Laboratories," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) ‘98 Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, 1998.

Santoro, D., Moshary, F., Ahmed, S.,. “Continuous Wave Frequency Modulated Aerosol Lidar”, Fourth Education and Science Forum - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Educational Partnership Program, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, 2006.

Santoro, D., Moshary, F., Arend, M., Ahmed, S., “Eye Safe Aerosol Lidar”, Sixth Annual NOAA-CREST Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, 2008.

Arend, M, Santoro, D., Abdelazim, S., Moshary, F., Ahmed, A., "Wind Field Measurements for the Mitigation of Airborne Health Threats in a Complex Urban Environment", Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security V and Biometric Technology for Human Identification VI, SPIE Proc. Vol. 7306, (5 May 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.820334.

Arend, M., Santoro, D., Abdelazim, S., Gross, B., Moshary, F., Ahmed, S., "Development of a NYC Meteorological Network with Emphasis on Vertical Wind Profiles in Support of Meteorological and Dispersion Models",  Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment J1.2, 89th Annual AMS Meeting, Phoenix AZ, 2009.

Abdelazim, S., Santoro, D., Arend, M., Moshary, F., Ahmed, S., “All-fiber Coherent Doppler LIDAR for Wind Sensing”, 15th Coherent Laser Radar Conference, Toulouse France, 2009.

Abdelazim, S., Santoro, D., Arend, M., Moshary, F., Ahmed, S., “All-fiber Coherent Doppler LIDAR for Wind Sensing”, EPP Forum-Howard University, Washington DC, 2009.

Arend, M., Abdelazim, S., Santoro, D., Moshary, F., Gross, B., Ahmed, S., "Development of a Fiber-based Eye Safe Coherent Wind Lidar System for Urban Wind Field Measurements", Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing VI, SPIE Proc. Vol. 7832, (26 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.865051.

Abdelazim, S., Santoro, D., Arend, M., Moshary, F., Ahmed, S., “ Development of All-fiber coherent Doppler LIDAR system for wind sensing”, 15th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation, 90th Annual AMS Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2010.

S. Abdelazim, D. Santoro, M. Arend, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, " Field Programmable Gate Array Processing of Eye-Safe All-Fiber Coherent Wind Doppler Lidar Return Signals", Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing VII, SPIE Proc. Vol. 8182, (4 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898414.

S. Abdelazim, D. Santoro, M. Arend, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, “Wind Velocity Estimate and Signal to Noise Ratio Analysis of an All Fiber Coherent Doppler Lidar System”, 16th Coherent Laser Radar Conference, 2011.

S. Abdelazim, D. Santoro, M. Arend, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, "All-fiber coherent Doppler LIDAR for wind sensing", Lidar Application Studies, 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2011.

Arend, M., Gutierrez, E., Madhavan, B., Gan, C. M., Abdelazim, S., Gross, B., Santoro, D., Moshary, F., Gonzalez, J., Ahmed, S., "Characterizing urban boundary layer dynamics using radar, lidar, sodar, surface observations and predictions from numerical models", , Lidar Networks, Long-term Climate Observations, Automated Operational Lidars  5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2011.

Bomidi, Lakshmi Madhavan, Mark F. Arend, Chuen-Meei Gan, Sameh Abdelazim, Barry M. Gross, David Santoro, Fred Moshary, J. Espinar González and Samir Ahmed. “Characterizing urban boundary layer dynamics using radar, lidar, sodar, surface observations and predictions from numerical models.” (2015). 

Arend, M., Abdelazim, S., Santoro, D., Moshary, F., Gross, B., Wu, Y., Ahmed, S, “All-Fiber Coherent Doppler Lidar Development for Characterization of Planetary Boundary Layer Dynamics and Comparison to Other Vertical Profilers”, 26th International Laser Radar Conference, Porto Heli, Greece, 2012.

Abdelazim, S., Santoro, D., Arend, M., Moshary, Ahmed, S, "The Challenges of Implementing and Testing Two Signal Processing Algorithms for High Rep-rate Coherent Doppler Lidar for Wind Sensing", Proc. SPIE 9474, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXIV, (21 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2176897

S. Abdelazim, D. Santoro, M. F. Arend, F. Moshary and S. Ahmed, "Development and Operational Analysis of an All-Fiber Coherent Doppler Lidar System for Wind Sensing and Aerosol Profiling," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 6495-6506, Dec. 2015.

Abdelazim, S.; Santoro, D.; Arend, M.; Moshary, F.; Ahmed, S. A Hardware Implemented Autocorrelation Technique for Estimating Power Spectral Density for Processing Signals from a Doppler Wind Lidar System. Sensors 2018, 18, 4170

Scientific Exhibits

"Angiogenic Properties of Guanphylline for Ischemic Injury to the Spinal Cord," Lee, B.Y., Cagir, B., Santoro, D., Jameel, M., Naftchi, E., The Forty-First Annual Conference of the American Paraplegia Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1995.