Mark Yeary
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Biography
Professor Yeary received the B.S.E.E (honors), M.S.E.E., and Ph.D.E.E from Texas A&M University in 1992, 1994 and 1999, respectively. As a student at TAMU, he was a charter member and officer of the Engineering Scholars Program and a recipient of the Dean's Outstanding Student Award. In 1995, he was with IBM, Austin, TX, as a member of a microprocessor development team. As a graduate student, he served as a teaching and research assistant. He received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award from the local IEEE Student Chapter two years in a row and was also nominated to be an NSF/FIE 1998 New Faculty Fellow. Following his graduation in 1999, he continued to be a member of the DSP group and a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, TAMU. During this time, he continued his digital signal processing based research and worked collaboratively with a variety of companies, including IBM, Raytheon, Cisco, Texas Instruments, Lockheed-Martin, etc. Since the fall of 2002, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman and is currently a tenured Associate Professor. In addition, he has spent eight summers, 2002 through 2009, at Raytheon as a faculty research engineer working on issues of national security. His applied signal processing contributions are many, and include the design an all-digital system-on-a-chip scheme for a Ka band radar and various target tracking algorithm developments, including orthogonal waveform development.
Dr. Yeary is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies. He is also a member of the AMS and a CIMMS Fellow. He has served on numerous national and international review panels. In April of 2006, Dr. Yeary received the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This award was given by the Instrumentation and Measurement Society of the IEEE. This society is devoted to a tight integration of signal processing development, hardware prototyping, and deployable real-time systems. He has served as a Technical Committee Member for the IEEE's IMTC in 2006, 2007 and in 2008. He will serve as a technical co-chair for this meeting in May of 2010 in Austin, TX. He also recently received OU's Teaching Scholars Initiative Award in recognition of excellence in the scholarship of teaching, 2009. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in the areas of digital signal processing as applied to radar signal processing, target & severe weather tracking, digital communications, image processing, adaptive filter design, and real-time systems.
Recent Projects Include:
- RF-SAMPLE [PDF - 67KB]
- Eigen Value Based Tornado Detection [PDF - 173KB]
- Radome Analysis at Tinker AFB [PDF - 131KB]
- Stochastic State Estimation Techniques [PDF - 111KB]
- Aircraft Tracking [PDF - 172KB]
- Adaptive Sampling [PDF - 141KB]
- Satellite Based Beamforming Studies [PDF - 84KB]
- Multi-Channel Receiver at the NWRT [PDF - 3.8MB]
Student Activities
In addition to working with a variety of students on research projects, Dr. Yeary is also very involved with several student activities on campus. The students at OU are quite excellent, as OU is ranked #1 in National Merit Scholars per capita for public universities in the nation. In addition, OU is in the top five in the nation among all comprehensive public universities in the graduation of Rhodes Scholars. Professor Yeary is the faculty advisor for the student chapter of the American Indians in Engineering & Science, also known as AISES. The University of Oklahoma is where the first national chapter of AISES was founded and is currently ranked in the top three of all universities in the nation in the number of American Indians that it graduates. He also serves as a mentor to the IEEE chapter on campus, particularly for the paper contests every year. He also serves as a mentor to students participating in the Undergraduate Research Day, offered each spring at OU through the Honors College.
Research Affiliations
Visit my research partners at the Atmospheric Radar Research Center (ARRC) . Operating under the auspices of the University of Oklahoma's strategic radar initiative and in close collaboration with our NOAA research partners and other Norman research units, interested faculty members from the Schools of Meteorology and the Electrical & Computer Engineering have united to form an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers to solve challenging radar research problems and prepare the next generation of students.