John McWhirter (mathematician)

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John McWhirter
Distinguished Research Professor in Engineering, Cardiff University
In office
2007–2019
Personal details
Born
John Graham McWhirter

(1949-03-28) 28 March 1949 (age 75)
Northern Ireland

John Graham McWhirter (born 28 March 1949) is a British mathematician and engineer in the field of signal processing. [1]

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John McWhirter attended Newry High School. He graduated in mathematics from Queen's University Belfast in 1970, and did his PhD there in 1973 on "The Virial Theorem in Collision Theory" under Benjamin Moiseiwitsch. [2] He started working in the Signal Processing Group at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Great Malvern, in the late 1970s, and has worked there for RSRE's successor organisations, currently QinetiQ. McWhirter left QinetiQ on 31 August 2007 to take up his current post as Distinguished Research Professor in Engineering at Cardiff University.

His work has mainly been in military areas including radar, sonar and communications, recently branching into civil applications. A particular interest is "blind" signal detection in which one does not know whether a signal is present, or its nature.

Awards and honours

He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and in 2002/3 its president. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Selected papers

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References

  1. "Professor John McWhirter FREng FRS". Fellows directory. Royal Society. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  2. John Graham McWhirter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Annual European Group Technical Achievement Awards" (PDF). EURASIP News Letter 15(3). September 2004.