Personal Information
- Short Bio
John J. Soraghan received the BEng and the MEngSc. degrees in 1978 and 1982, respectively, both from University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, and the PhD degree in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton, UK, in 1989. His PhD work on Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing was carried out in collaboration with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, U.K. From 1979 to 1980 he joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation, USA as an electronic engineer working on their TPS43 and TPS64 radar systems. In 1986, he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, as a Lecturer in the Signal Processing Division. He became a Senior Lecturer in 1999, a Reader in 2001, and a Professor in 2003. From 1989 to 1991, he was Manager of the Scottish Transputer Centre, and from 1991 to 1995, he was Manager of the DTI Centre for Parallel Signal Processing. Since 1996, he has been Manager of the Texas Instruments’ DSP Elite Centre in the University. He was Head of the Institute for Communications and Signal Processing from 2005-2007. He currently holds the Texas Instruments Chair in Signal Processing in the Centre of Excellence in Signal and Image Processing (CeSIP) University of Strathclyde. His main research interests include advanced linear and non-linear signal processing theory and algorithms with applications to telecommunications; biomedical; multimedia systems; remote sensing and defence. He has been organiser and Technical Chair for the biannual European DSP in Education and Research Symposium (EDERS) since 2004. He has supervised thirty PhD students to graduation, holds three patents, and has published over 230 papers.
- j.soraghan@eee.strath.ac.uk
- Title
- Prof.
- First Name
- John
- Surname
- Soraghan
- Position
- Texas Instruments Chair in Signal Processing in the Centre of Excellence in Signal and Image Processing (CeSIP) University of Strathclyde
History
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- 2 years 8 weeks