Brian D. Jeffs received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical
engineering from Brigham Young University in 1978 and 1982
respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University
of Southern California in 1989, also in electrical engineering.
Since 1990 he has been in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Brigham Young University and is currently an associate
professor. He lectures in the areas of digital signal processing,
digital image processing, and circuits.
Research interests include digital signal processing for radio
astronomy, multiple antenna wireless communications, and digital
image restoration and reconstruction. He directs the radio astronomy
research group at BYU which is actively developing experimental
astronomical instrumentation and signal processing algorithms.
This group has recently completed a small array of radio telescope
dish antennas located on the roof of the Clyde engineering building.
This array can form synthesis images of deep space microwave radio
sources and is being used to develop and study algorithms to mitigate
man made interference while observing space objects.
Dr. Jeffs has recently completed a year-long sabbatical
at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he
collaborated with ASTRON in developing and analyzing techniques for
self calibration of the LOFAR low frequency radio astronomy array.
Previous employment includes Hughes Aircraft Company where
he served as a sonar signal processing systems engineer in the
anti-submarine warfare group. Current research interests include
high data rate digital multiple antenna wireless communications
systems, adaptive interference mitigation algorithms for radio
astronomy, and blind image restoration.
Dr. Jeffs was a Vice General Chair for IEEE ICASSP-2001, held
in Salt Lake City Utah. He was a member of the executive organizing
committee for the 1998 IEEE DSP Workshop, and served several years
as chair of the Utah Chapter of the IEEE Communications and Signal
Processing Societies.