George Cheney

Expertise

Research Interests

Embedded Systems, Analog/Digital Design

Digital and analog design, embedded real-time systems

Education

• MS: Electrical Engineering, (1973), Lowell Tech. Inst. - Lowell
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: MSEE, Lowell Tech. Inst. June 1973, Electrical Engineering
• BS: Electrical Engineering, (1968), Lowell Tech. Inst. - Lowell
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: BSEE, Lowell Tech. Inst., June 1968, Magna Cum Laude, Electrical Engineering

Selected Awards and Honors

• ECE Department Teaching Award, Academic Year - ECE Department
• NASA (IMAGE) Mission Group Achievement Award, Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration Team - NASA
• Senior Lecturer,Member, HKN Honor Society
• 2008 NASA Group Achievement Award, Radio Plasma Imager. (2008) - NASA
• ECE Department Teaching Award (2008), Teaching - UMass Lowell
• NASA Group Achievement Award (2008) - NASA
• ECE Department Teaching Award (2006), Teaching - UMass Lowell
• College of Engineering Distinguished Service Award (1985) - College of Engineering

Selected Publications

• Bibl, K., Cheney, G.P. (). ITERATIVE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS: NEW METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS.
• Haines, D.M., Reinisch, B.W., Cheney, G.P. (1997). Simultaneous oblique sounding with Doppler analysis and low-probability-of-intercept communications using digital ionosondes. Radio Science, 32(5) 2065-2073.

Selected Presentations

• DPS-4D Preprocessor Card at the 2007 International Digisonde Forum., May 2007
• PIDDP Preprocessor Card, August 2006
• DPS Waveforms and Signal Processing at the Annual Digisonde, 2004
• Interference excision by iterative spectral analysis. New pulse codes for improving signal to noise ratios of received radar signals., 2001
• Digital signal processing scheme to excise interfering signals from radar receivers - 2001 IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society International Symposium, July 2001 - Boston, MA
• DPS Waveforms and Signal Processing, including simulations to compare tradeoffs for two different transmit pulse codes vs. two different receiver bandwidths. - The Annual Digisonde, 2000
• The use of multiplexed frequencies on the DPS ionospheric sounder - Annual Digisonde Training Seminar, 1998
• Updates to digital signal processing algorithms at the Annual Digisonde. Critical Design Review for Radio Plasma Imager (RPI), a magnetospheric radio sounder to be flown on the NASA satellite "Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration" (IMAGE)., 1997
• Software design review at the Preliminary Design Review for Radio Plasma Imager (RPI), a magnetospheric radio sounder to be flown on the NASA satellite "Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration" (IMAGE)., January 1997
• The digital signal processing algorithms used in the Digital Portable Sounder., 1996
• Digital signal processing algorithms used in the Digital Portable Sounder., 1995

Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research

• (2000), - Altera Corp
  Cheney, G.P.
• (2000), Contract - Analog Devices, Corp.
  Cheney, G.P.
• Embedded Real Time Systems Lab (2000), -
  Cheney, G.P.
• Analog Devices Electronics Lab (2000), Grant - Analog Devices, Inc.
  Cheney, G.P.
• Embedded Real Time Systems "Lab" (2000), Grant -
  Cheney, G.P.
• PADS Software Donation (2000), Grant - PADS Software, Inc.
  Cheney, G.P.
• Analog Devices Advanced Electronics Lab (2000), Sponsored Research - Analog Devices
  Cheney, G.P.
• (2000), - Wind River Systems
  Cheney, G.P.