University of Strathclyde

John J. Soraghan received the BEng (first class honors) and the MEngSc. degrees in 1978 and 1982, respectively, both from University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, and the PhD degree in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton, UK, in 1989.   His PhD work on Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing was carried out in collaboration with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, U.K. From 1979 to 1980 he joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation, USA as an electronic engineer working on their TPS43 and TPS64 radar systems. In 1986, he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, as a Lecturer in the Signal Processing Division.   He became a Senior Lecturer in 1999, a Reader in 2001, and a Professor in 2003.   From 1989 to 1991, he was Manager of the Scottish Transputer Centre, and from 1991 to 1995, he was Manager of the DTI Centre for Parallel Signal Processing. Since 1996, he has been Manager of the Texas Instruments’ DSP Elite Centre in the University.   He was Head of the Institute for Communications and Signal Processing from 2005-2007.  He currently holds the Texas Instruments Chair in Signal Processing in the Centre of  Excellence in Signal and Image Processing (CeSIP) University of Strathclyde.  His main research interests include advanced linear and non-linear signal processing theory and algorithms with applications to telecommunications; biomedical; multimedia systems;  remote sensing and defence.   He has been organiser and Technical Chair for the biannual European DSP in Education and Research Symposium (EDERS) since 2004.   He has supervised twenty-eight PhD students to graduation, holds three patents, and has published over 230 technical papers.

His research topics include:

• Fractional Fourier Transforms
• Adaptive Vector Quantisation
• Lattice Vector Quantisation
• Multiresolution Signal Analysis
• Real and Complex Wavelets
• Empirical Mode Decomposition
• Higher Order Statistics
• VLSI Adaptive Signal Processing Architectures
• Sensor Array Processing
• Direction of Arrival
• Music and ESPRIT for DOA
• Cyclostationary Signal Processing
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing
• High Resolution Radar Imaging, Detection and Classification
• Sonar and Ultrasonic
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Neuro Fuzzy Systems
• Fuzzy Multiresolution Signal Analysis
• Non linear system modeling
• Linear and Non Linear PCA
• Signal Coding and Compression
• Error Correcting Methods
• Human Visual System inspired signal coding
• Biologically Inspired Acoustic Imaging
• Blind Source Separation
• Multimedia Signal and Image Processing
• Video Analytics and Surveillance
• Distributed Video Coding
• 3-dimensional video
• Biomedical Signal and Image  Processing
• DSP Technology