Dr. Chad Spooner

Tagline
Statistical Signal Processing Researcher
Biography
Chad M. Spooner received the BS degree from UC Berkeley in 1986, and the MS and PhD degrees from UC Davis in 1988 and 1992, all in electrical engineering. He has held positions at Mission Research Corporation, Statistical Signal Processing Incorporated, Alliant Techsystems, and NorthWest Research Associates. Research sponsors have included NRL, DARPA, Lockheed-Martin Company, Tektronix, AFRL, GTRI, and BAE Systems. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor at Virginia Tech and an occasional lecturer in electrical engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Spooner's research interests include weak-signal detection and parameter estimation, automatic modulation classification, the theory of the higher-order statistics of communication signals, interference mitigation in satellite communications, spectrum sensing for cognitive radio, and pattern classification for biomedical applications. He authors the Cyclostationary Signal Processing Blog at cyclostationary.blog.
Experience
Member of Technical Staff
NorthWest Research Associates
Education
University of California-Davis
Doctor of Philosophy
Engineering , 1992