Education

1981 Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics 
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA USA

1977  Master of Science, Mathematics 
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA USA

1972  Bachelor of Science, Mathematics,
    Birmingham-Southern College
    Birmingham, AL USA 

 

Employment History

1990 – Present  Research Scientist II
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA USA

1988 – 1990  Staff Engineer
    Lockheed Electronics Company
    USA

1980 – 1988  Specialist Engineer
    Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company
    USA

1972 – 1980  Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Mathematics
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA USA

1970 – 1972  Physics Laboratory Instructor
    Birmingham-Southern College
    Birmingham, AL USA

 

Experience Summary

Presently engaged in development of tactical missile 6-DOFs for countermeasures effectiveness studies for IR ground-to-air missiles (Stinger Basic, SA-9, and SA-13). Past efforts at Lockheed include: development of a capacitance based probe system to determine the quality of aircraft fastener holes; development of an ultrasonic imaging system to allow the nondestructive internal inspection of aluminum and carbon composite aircraft structural components; development of an acoustic emission detection system to detect, locate the source, and determine the frequency of occurrence of aircraft structural micro-cracking; development of a microprocessor based communication network test bed for development of secure, survivable tactical communication network architectures; development of an IBM-PC based image processing workstation used to digitize video image data for target surveillance and acquisition applications; development of designs for covert communication systems and non-cooperative target recognition systems; and development of a baseline design for a system of chemical detectors to warn USAF bases of chemical attack. Thesis involved solutions for infinite systems of coupled linear ordinary differential equations satisfying prescribed initial conditions.

 

Current Fields of Interest

IR systems analysis, modeling, and simulation; image processing; communications; systems of differential equations; chaotic systems.

 

 

Certifications, Affiliations & Special Honors

Graduated Cum Laude from Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham-Southern College
Birmingham, AL

Awarded Honorary Membership to the American Mathematical Society by the School of Mathematics of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

As a key contributor, was chosen to attend the 1982 Industrial Research and Development IR-100 Awards Banquet at which Lockheed Corporation received an IR-100 Award for the Capacitance Hole Probe system, Lockheed Corporation

Nominated for the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman award for outstanding young scientist of 1984

 

 

Committee Memberships

Member, Theta Sigma Lambda (Birmingham-Southern College Mathematics Honor Society)

Member, Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society

Member, Pi Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honor Society

Member, Mathematical Association of America

Member, Sigma Xi Research Society

 

Reports & Publications

"1. "Lockheed-Georgia/Clemson Sensor Test Bed Status Report," presented at the Lockheed Corporation Microelectronics and Signal Processing Symposium, Palo Alto, California, 7-9 October 1986, with E. G. Baxa, Jr. and R. J. Schalkoff," ()


"2. "Advanced Tactical Communication Networks," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1985 and Program Plan for 1986, Volume II, pp.6-91 through 6-100, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1986," ()


"3. "Digital Signal Processing and Sensor Technology," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1984 and Program Plan for 1985, Volume II, pp.6-107 through 6-119, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1985," ()


"4. "Sensor Technology," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1984 and Program Plan for 1985, Volume II, pp.6-87 through 6-96, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1985," ()


"5. "Visually Guided Threats," Final Technical Report, Contract No. F09603-89-G-0077-0032, WR-ALC/NNXEA, Robins AFB, GA, June 1994, contributor," ()


"6. "RF/IR Decoy Requirements," Final Technical Report, Contract No. F33615-92-C-1009, Wright Laboratory Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, May 1994, coauthor," ()


"7. "RF/IR Decoy Requirements Analysis," 1994 Electronics Warfare Techniques Program Review, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, April 6, 1994, coauthor," ()


"8. "Towed IRCM Analysis," Final Technical Report, Contract No. F33615-92-C-1009, Wright Laboratory Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, March 1994, with A. L. Mullikin," ()


"9. "AFDEC ECTIC Short-Pulse Modifications and Analysis of DISAMS-8," Final Technical Report and Software Users Manual, contributor," ()


"10. "Analyst's Manual for DISAMS-8," Final Report, Contract No. DAAB07-90-D-P003/D.O. 0002, U.S. Army CECOM, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, June 1992, with L. J. Corbett and A. L. Mullikin," ()


"11. "Capacitance Hole Probe Development," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1981 and Program Plan for 1982, Volume III, pp.10-235 through 10-246, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1982," ()


"12. "Capacitance Hole Probe: A Nondestructive Microprocessor Based System for Automatic Assessment of Aircraft Fastener Hole Quality," presented at the 1981 Fall Nat. Conf., American Society of Nondestructive Testing, Atlanta, Georgia, 1981," ()


"13. "Capacitance Hole Probe Development," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1980 and Program Plan for 1981, Volume II, pp. 6-157 through 6-167, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1981," ()


"14. "Solution of Initial-Value Problems for Some Infinite Eventually Periodic Chains of Harmonic Oscillators," Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1981," ()


"15. "GTSIMS Verification, Validation, and Modification," Final Technical Report, February 1995, contributor," () 


"16. "Digital Signal Processing and Sensor Technology," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1983 and Program Plan for 1984, Volume III, pp. 10-97 through 10-109, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1984," ()

"17. "Design of Algorithms to Extract Data From Capacitance Sensors to Measure Fastener Hole Profiles," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, pp. 343 - 349, June 1983, with J. J. Hammond, Jr.," ()


"18. "Digital Signal Processing and Sensor Technology," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1982 and Program Plan for 1983, Volume III, pp.10-81 through 10-102, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1983," ()


"19. "Fastener Hole Inspection for New Aircraft: Capacitance Hole Probe System," Final Rep., AFWAL-TR-82-4041, AFWAL/MLTM, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433, May 1982, with H. S. Gibson, P. E. Goodman and W. H. Lewis," ()


"20. "Analyst's Manual for DISAMS-7," Contract No. N00014-89-K-2027/A00002, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., May 1992, with L. J. Corbett and A. L. Mullikin," ()


21. "IEW Investment Opportunity Analysis for Electronic Warfare in Low Observable Aircraft (EWW)," August 1993, Final Technical Report, contributor," ()


"22. "ASTE Correlation Analysis," Interim Technical Report, July 1993, contributor," ()


"23. "Advanced Sensors," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1985 and Program Plan for 1986, Volume II, pp.6-101 through 6-110, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1986," ()


"24. "Development of a Non-Cooperative Target Recognition System Based on Aircraft Vortex Analysis," AIAA/AHS/ASEE Aircraft Design, Systems and Operations Conference, 7-9 September 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, with M. J. Smith and C. Larson," ()


"25. "Smart Sensors," In Independent Research and Development Report for 1986 and Program Plan for 1987, Volume I, pp.3-53 through 3-56, Marietta, Georgia: Lockheed-Georgia Company, March 1985," ()