John McWhirter (mathematician)
- John McWhirter (mathematician)
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John G. McWhirter FRS FREng is a British mathematician and engineer in the field of signal processing.
John McWhirter graduated in mathematics from Queen's University Belfast in 1970, gaining a PhD there in 1973. He started working in the Signal Processing Group at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Great Malvern, in the late 1970s, and has worked there for RSRE's successor organizations, currently QinetiQ.
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
* 1986 honorary visiting professor at Queen's University Belfast
* 1988 visiting professor at Cardiff University
* 1996 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
* 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
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.
elected 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) doi|10.1088/0305-4470/11/9/007
* Some systolic array developments in the United Kingdom, John V. McCanny and John G. McWhirter, Computer Volume 20, Issue 7 p. 51 (1987)
External links
* [http://www.engin.cf.ac.uk/whoswho/profile.asp?RecordNo=253 Cardiff University page]
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