Harper J. Whitehouse

Harper J. Whitehouse is the Director of Research and Development at LMI Scientific, a unit of Linear Measurements, Inc., that currently conducts contract research for the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DoE) and Industry. Mr. Whitehouse formerly was a senior staff scientist at the Navy's SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, where he analyzed and developed advanced radar, sonar and signal processing systems. His professional interest is in systems motivated research and development with emphasis on the application of advanced signal processing architectures and implementations based on methods of numerical linear algebra. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Geophysical Resources Council (GRC), the Society of Photo Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the Institute of Navigation (ION), and is a Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Curriculum Vitae Harper J. Whitehouse

Education:

Sabbatical studies, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1972 - 1973.
Graduate studies, Mathematics and Physics, California State University at Los Angeles, 1962 - 1963.
Undergraduate studies, Physics, California Institute of Technology and Oregon State University, 1953 -1958.

Recent positions and research:

Director of Research and Development, LMI Scientific, 2000 - present,
Consultant and Vice President, Research, Linear Measurements, Inc., 1997 - present.
Senior Staff Scientist, SPAWARSYSCEN-SD and predecessors: Navigation and Applied Sciences Department, 1998 - 1999. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Department, 1991 - 1998 Environmental Sciences and Sonar, 1975 - 1991
Associate Department Head for Research, Naval Undersea Center (NUC), Sensor and Information Technology Department, 1970 - 1975.

Harper J. Whitehouse has over thirty-five years experience in advanced systems motivated applied research. He developed one of the first matched filter detection systems for ASW lightweight torpedoes in the mid 1960s and has several patents on matched filter technology. In the mid 1970s he directed an Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) program on Image Transmission via Spread Spectrum Techniques. The discrete cosine transform technology developed during this program for signal bandwidth compression is still in use today as part of the JPEG and MPEG digital image transmission standards that are used on the Internet and in High Definition Television (HDTV). He received the Naval Undersea Center's highest award in 1973 for his pioneering work on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices. He has more than fifty issued patents.

H. J. Whitehouse became Vice President of Research for Linear Measurements, Inc. (LMI), the successor to the Squire- Whitehouse Corporation (SWC), in 1999 after having served them in the capacity of a physical sciences consultant. His current interest is in the application of SAW technology to ultra high and low temperature applications.

H. J. Whitehouse has acted as a physical sciences consultant to several companies including Guiltech Research Corporation subsequently Saxpy Computer Corporation, Jabra Corporation, Evolving Technology Institute (ETI) and Linear Measurements Inc., (LMI). The Guiltech Research Corporation was founded to develop a matrix array processor using a multi-channel acousto-optic Bragg cell and a computational algorithm developed by Mr. Whitehouse.

H. J Whitehouse was a cofounder of Squire-Whitehouse Corporation (SWC) and was its Vice President of Research. SWC was founded to continue the development of advanced Measurement While Drilling (MWD) technology and to develop specialized downhole instrumentation for production logging. During this period he received US patent 4792787 for a new high-temperature pressure transducer.

H. J. Whitehouse joined American Petroscience Corporation (APC) as a Vice President in 1968 to develop zero-order torsional wave technology for acoustic communication along the drill string. During this period he received four patents, US 3906435, US 3906434, US 3900827 and US 3790930, for oil well telemetering systems.

Related Publications:

J.M. Alsup and H. J. Whitehouse, "Weight functions for two-dimensional arrays using Regularized decomvolution," Thirty-fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, & Computers, in Press.

J.M. Alsup and H. J. Whitehouse, "Hermite functions and regularized deconvolution in sonar waveform design and processing," Thirty-fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, & Computers, (2000) pp. 673-679.

J. B. Abbiss, J. C. Allen, R. P. Bocker and H. J. Whitehouse, "Fast regularized deconvolution in optics and radar," in Mathematics in Signal Processing III, J. G. McWhirter Ed., Clarendon Press (1994).

J. M. Speiser, H. J. Whitehouse and J. C. Allen, "Wideband Time-Frequency Distributions," in Time-Frequency Signal Analysis, B Boashash Ed., Longman Cheshire (1992)

J. M. Speiser and H. J. Whitehouse, "Algorithms and Architectures for Array Signal Processing," in Systems and Signal Processing, R. N. Madan, N. Viswanadham and R. L. Kashyap, Eds., Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. (1991)

H. J. Whitehouse, B. Boashash and J. M. Speiser, "High-resolution processing techniques for temporal and spatial signals," in High-Resolution Methods in Underwater Acoustics, M. Bouvet and G. Bienvenu Eds., Springer-Verlag (1991)

H. J. Whitehouse, "Radar/Sonar signal processing," in Modern Signal Processing, T. Kailath Ed., Hemisphere Publishing Corp. (1985).

H. J. Whitehouse, "Signal processing technology," in Modern Signal Processing, T. Kailath Ed., Hemisphere Publishing Corp. (1985).

H. J. Whitehouse, J. M. Speiser and K. Bromley, "Signal processing applications of concurrent array processor technology," in S. Y. Kung, H. J. Whitehouse and T. Kailath, Eds. VLSI and Modern Signal Processing, pp. 25 - 41, Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1985).