Julio V. Urbina received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru, in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, in 1996 and 2002, respectively.,From 1989 to 1993, he was with Jícamarca Radio Observatory, Lurigancho-Chosica, Peru. From 2002 to 2006, he was with the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, USA, and also with Arecibo Observatory. In 2006, he joined The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His recent research interests include digital systems and space instrumentation, cognitive radars, software-defined radio and radars, sensors, acquisition, reconfigurable instrumentation, morphware systems, high-performance computer, meteor science, radio wave propagation, space engineering, remote sensing, and radar studies of the atmosphere and ionosphere