Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, CS focus; B.S.
• Culver Military Academy, honors in Russian, Science, Mathematics
• Carnegie-Mellon University, Computer Science PhD program (left for a position in California before completing).

Recognition

6 patents with including:

• “Universal Method for Bus to Internet Connectivity,” M. Cheponis, L. Karlsson, R. Lu
• “Liquid Crystal Display Panel Dynamic Characterization Device,” M. Cheponis
• “Power Connection Scheme ,” M. Cheponis, S. Young, # 5,455,467 GRANTED 1995
• “Inductive Wireless Data Connection for Computers,”M. Cheponis, S. Young, # 5,325,046 GRANTED 1994
• “Active Key Input Device for Computers,” S. Young, M. Cheponis
• “System and method for enhancing near vertical incidence skywave (.nvis.) communication using space-time coding”
• Frank M Caimi, Mike Cheponis, Tim S Cotter, Stephen G Perlman, Rearden Inc # 7,885,354 GRANTED 2011
• “Liquid Crystal Variable Drive Voltage” David A Chavez, Michael Cheponis, Mark F. Flynn #9,134,556 GRANTED 2015

13 publications including:

• Nykanen, Petri (Nokia) and Rubin, Paul and Cheponis, Mike “Infrared Data Association Guidelines for Ultra Protocols, Version 1.0” IrDA, Oct. 15, 1997
• M. Cheponis and L. Karlsson, “A Full-Duplex 56 kb/s CSMA/CD Packet Radio Repeater System” ARRL 10th
• Computer Networking Conference, San Jose, California, September 1991.
• M. Cheponis, G. Elmore, B. Garbee, P. Karn, K. Rowett, “The Implications of High-Speed RF
• Networking” ARRL 8th Computer Networking Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 1989.
• M. Raibert, H. B. Brown, Jr., M. Cheponis, et. al, “Dynamically Stable Legged Locomotion,” MIT Artificial
• Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 1179, LL-6 September 1989.
• M. Cheponis and B. Mans, “A Totally Awesome High-Speed Packet Radio I/O Interface for the IBM PC/XT/386 and Macintosh II Computers,” ARRL 7th Computer Networking Conference, Columbia, Maryland, October 1988.
• M. Cheponis and P. Karn, “The KISS TNC: A simple Host-to-TNC communications protocol,” ARRL 7th Computer
• Networking Conference, Redondo Beach, California, August 1987.
• M. H. Raibert, M. Cheponis, H. B. Brown, Jr., “Running on Four Legs as Though They Were One,” Proceedings of IEEE, March 1985.
• M. H. Raibert, H. B. Brown, Jr., M. Cheponis, et al, “Dynamically Stable Legged Locomotion — Fourth Annual
• Report, CMU-LL-4-85,” Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1985.
• M. H. Raibert (Ed.) M. Cheponis (narration), “Walking Machine Video,” Videotape appendix to Special Issue on Legged Locomotion, International Journal of Robotics Research, 3:2, 1984.
• M. Cheponis, “A Circuit for Reverse Video,” Micro Cornucopia, 1983.
• M. H. Raibert, H. B. Brown, Jr., M. Cheponis, et al, “Dynamically Stable Legged Locomotion — Third Annual
• Report,” Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-83-20, 1983.
• M. H. Raibert, H. B. Brown, Jr., M. Cheponis, et al, “Dynamically Stable Legged Locomotion — Second
• Annual Report,” Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-83-1, 1983.
• M. H. Raibert, H. B. Brown, Jr., M. Cheponis, et al, “Dynamically Stable Legged Locomotion — First Annual
• Report,” Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Technical Report RI-81-9, 1981.

Awards and Honors:

• Participant and Speaker, World Wide THINK Conference and Workshop – 1989-2000, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018

Interest / Obsessions

• Amateur Radio, callsign K6THZ
• Compiler Design
• Vintage Computer Restoration
• Hiking

Favorite Quote

• “If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.”
  – Unknown

Expertise

• Systems Engineering; Software Architecture; Software Design up and down “the stack” with emphasis in Embedded Systems and Robotics; EE

Experience

• Senior Chief Lab Engineer and Manager at Novasolix, Newark
• Principal, Product and Systems Design, California Wireless, Inc, Santa Clara, CA
• Senior Staff Engineer, Tesla Motors, Palo Alto, CA
• Sr. MTS, zSpace 3D Display Systems, Mountain View, CA
• Sr. RF Engineer, Dust Networks, Berkeley, CA (60% time)
• Sr. Member of the Technical Staff, Wireless Communications Systems, EO, Mt.View, CA
• Sr. Computer & Electrical Engineer, Apple Computer, Fremont, CA
• Sr. Research Engineer, M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
• Sr. Research Engineer, Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Publications

• What the Past Teaches us about Optimal Product Development