John McWhirter (mathematician)
- See John McWhirter (disambiguation) for other people of the same name.
John G. McWhirter
FLSW is a British mathematician and engineer in the field of signal processing. [citation needed
]
John McWhirter attended
QinetiQ. Prof. McWhirter left QinetiQ on 31 August 2007 to take up his current post as Distinguished Research Professor in Engineering at Cardiff University
.
His work has mainly been in military areas including radar, sonar and communications, recently branching into civil applications. A particular interest is "blind" signal detection in which one does not know whether a signal is present, or its nature.
Awards and honours
- 1986 honorary visiting professor at Queen's University Belfast[citation needed]
- 1988 visiting professor at Cardiff University
- 1996 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)[citation needed]
- 1999 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate from the Queen's University Belfast
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh[citation needed]
- 2003 EURASIP European Group Technical Achievement Award [2]
He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and in 2002/3 its president. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Selected papers
- On the numerical inversion of the Laplace transform and similar Fredholm integral equations of the first kind, J G McWhirter and E R Pike, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 11 1729–1745 (1978)
- Some systolic array developments in the United Kingdom, John V. McCanny and John G. McWhirter, Computer Volume 20, Issue 7 p. 51 (1987)
References
- ^ John Graham McWhirter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Annual European Group Technical Achievement Awards" (PDF). EURASIP News Letter 15(3). September 2004.
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