Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 2002
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 2000
• B.S. (with honors) in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 1999

Teaching

• EECS 412 Electronic Circuits II
• EECS 420 Electromagnetics II
• EECS 744 Digital Signal Processing I
• EECS 844 Digital Signal Processing II

Research

• Adaptive Signal Processing for Radar and Communications
• Multistatic Radar
• Radar Pulse Compression
• Radar Waveform Design/Implementation
• Space-Time Adaptive Processing
• Array Processing
• Interference Cancellation
• Multi-user Communications
• Biomedical Imaging

Affliliations

• IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel
• International Waveform Diversity Conference Steering Committee
• MSS Tri-Service Radar Symposium Program Committee

Memberships

• Senior Member IEEE
• IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
• IEEE Signal Processing Society
• Eta Kappa Nu
• Tau Beta Pi

Honors

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Young Investigator Award, 2008
• Harry Talley Excellence in Teaching Award, KU EECS Department, 2008
• Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Research, KU School of Engineering, 2008
• Naval Research Laboratory Alan Berman Research Publication Award, 2004, 2006, and 2007

Service

• Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• Editorial Board for IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation
• Chair, Kansas City chapter of IEEE AES Society
• General Chair, 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
• Student Participation Chair, 2010 IEEE International Radar Conference
• General Co-Chair, 2009 IEEE Waveform Diversity & Design Conference
• Faculty advisor to Tau Beta Pi, Kansas Alpha chapter
• Faculty advisor to KU student chapter of IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society

Publications

• M. Wicks, E. Mokole, S.D. Blunt, V. Amuso, and R. Schneible, eds., Principles of Waveform Diversity and Design, SciTech Publishing, Spring 2010.
• S.D. Blunt, T. Chan, and K. Gerlach, "Robust DOA Estimation: the Re-Iterative Super Resolution (RISR) Algorithm," accepted to IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, (tentatively scheduled for vol. 47, no. 2, April 2011).
• S.D. Blunt, P. Yatham, and J. Stiles, "Intra-Pulse Radar-Embedded Communications," accepted to IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, (tentatively scheduled for vol. 46, no. 3, July 2010).
• S.D. Blunt and T. Higgins, "Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Efficient Adaptive Radar Pulse Compression," accepted to IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, (tentatively scheduled for vol. 46, no. 1, Jan. 2010).
• S.D. Blunt, A. Shackelford, K. Gerlach, and K.J. Smith, "Doppler Compensation & Single Pulse Imaging via Adaptive Pulse compression," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 647-659, Apr. 2009.
• A.K. Shackelford, K. Gerlach, and S.D. Blunt, "Partially Adaptive STAP using the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 58-69, Jan. 2009.
• S.D. Blunt, W. Dower, and K. Gerlach, "Hybrid Interference Suppression for Multistatic Radar," IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 323-333, Oct. 2008.
• M. Popescu, E.-A. Popescu, T.-P. Chan, S.D. Blunt, and J. Lewine, "Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction of Bilateral Auditory Steady State Responses using MEG Beamformers," IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 1092-1102, Mar. 2008.
• S.D. Blunt,K. Gerlach, and J. Heyer, "A New HRR Detector for Slow-Moving Targets in Sea-Clutter," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 965-974, July 2007.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "Radar Pulse Compression Repair," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1188-1195, July 2007.
• K. Gerlach, A.K. Shackelford, and S.D. Blunt, "Combined Multistatic Adaptive Pulse Compression and Adaptive Beamforming for Shared-Spectrum Radar," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 137-146, June 2007.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "The Factored-SVD Formulation and an application example," Digital Signal Processing, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 199-208, January 2007.
• S.D. Blunt, K. Gerlach, and M. Rangaswamy, "STAP using Knowledge-Aided Covariance Estimation and the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 891-903, July 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Multistatic Adaptive Pulse Compression," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 1043-1057, July 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Adaptive Pulse Compression via MMSE Estimation," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 572-584, April 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K.C. Ho, "An Iterative Approximate MAP Symbol Estimator for Uncoded Synchronous CDMA," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1663-1673, July 2005.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Efficient Robust AMF using the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 537-548, April 2005.
• K.R. Gerlach, S.D. Blunt, and M.L. Picciolo, "Robust Adaptive Matched Filtering using the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 929-945, July 2004.
• K.C. Ho and S.D. Blunt, "Rapid Identification of a Sparse Impulse Response Using an Adaptive Algorithm in the Haar Domain," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 628-638, March 2003.
• K.C. Ho and S.D. Blunt, "Adaptive Sparse System Identification using Wavelets," IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems II, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 656-667, October 2002.

Patents

• S.D. Blunt and T. Higgins, "Computationally Efficient Adaptive Radar Pulse Compression System," patent pending, application serial no. 11/837,243.
• S.D. Blunt, T.P. Chan, and M. Popescu, "Source Affine Image Reconstruction (SAFFIRE) for EEF/MEG Imaging," patent pending, application serial no. 61/013,544.
• S.D. Blunt, A. Shackelford, and K. Gerlach, "Single Pulse Imaging Radar System and Method," US Patent #7,535,412, issued May 19, 2009.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Multistatic Adaptive Pulse Compression Method and System," US Patent #7,474,257, issued January 6, 2009.
• S.D. Blunt, K. Gerlach, and K.J. Smith, "Doppler Compensated Adaptive Pulse Compressor for Doppler-Tolerant Waveforms," US Patent #7,439,906, issued October 21, 2008.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "Radar Pulse Compression Repair," US Patent #7,298,315, issued November 20, 2007.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Method and Apparatus for Detecting Slow-Moving Targets in High-Resolution Sea Clutter," US Patent #7,286,079, issued October 23, 2007.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Doppler-Sensitive Adaptive Coherence Estimate Detector Methods," US Patent #7,212,150, issued May 1, 2007.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "Radar Processor System and Method," US Patent #7,193,558, issued March 20, 2007.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Robust Predictive Deconvolution System and Method," US Patent #7,106,250, issued September 12, 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Robust Predictive Deconvolution System and Method," US Patent #6,940,450, issued September 6, 2005.