3034 Eaton Hall
1520 West 15th Street
Lawrence KS 66045-7621
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
Service:
Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Editorial Board for IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation
Faculty advisor to Tau Beta Pi, Kansas Alpha chapter
Research:
Adaptive Signal Processing for Radar and Communications
Multistatic Radar
Radar Pulse Compression
Space-Time Adaptive Processing
Interference Cancellation
Multi-user Communications
Biomedical Imaging
Affiliations:
IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel
International Waveform Diversity Conference Steering 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 Young Investigator Award, 2008
Naval Research Laboratory Alan Berman Research Publication Award, 2004, 2006, and 2007
Selected Publications:
S.D. Blunt, A. Shackelford, K. Gerlach, and K.J. Smith, "Doppler Compensation & Single Pulse Imaging via Adaptive Pulse compression," accepted to IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems.
S.D. Blunt, W. Dower, and K. Gerlach, "Hybrid Interference Suppression for Multistatic Radar," accepted to IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation.
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," accepted to IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering.
A.K. Shackelford, K. Gerlach, and S.D. Blunt, "Partially Adaptive STAP using the FRACTA Algorithm," accepted to IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems.
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 System, 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:
K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "Radar Pulse Compression Repair," patent pending, 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.
