Thomas Paul Weldon, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte 205B Woodward Hall 9201 Univ. City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223 Resume Map to my office and parking info and campus maps E-mail: tpweldon@uncc.edu Any email may not be private or may be subject to North Carolina’ Public Records laws. Email is usually the best way to contact me. You may also contact the department staff in an emergency. Office Hours (varies by semester): Fall 2009: Mon. and Weds. 4:45-5:45, and Weds 2:00-3:00. You should check Woodward 140 after my classes, since I often help students after class in the classroom. Please try to be at my office at the beginning of office hours. On occasion, I may not be available during these hours due to conflicting meetings or travel. You may also stop by my office at other times during the week. I can often be found in computer labs helping students, or in room 140 after class. You may also reach me at tpweldon@uncc.edu.

Projects:

Research on patent-pending Rayleigh/Mie Ehnancement of Blackbody Radiation in Nanoscale Devices to shape the spectrum of blackbody radiation by suppressing blackbody emission at long wavelength and enhancing blackbody radiation at short wavelength. The basic notion is the creation of a "better light bulb" by suppressing heat loss (infrared emission) and by enhancing visible light emission. See recent paper on Rayleigh/Mie Ehnancement of Blackbody Radiation.

Research on Single-Chip Frequency-Synthesized Radio Frequency Spectrum Analyzer incorporating a Successive Detection Log Video Amplifier. See recent paper on Single-Chip Frequency-Synthesized Radio Frequency Spectrum Analyzer.

Research on an N-ary Morphological Operator for removal of image segmentation boundary errors. An N-ary morphological operator resembling a binary erosion and dilation is proposed for N-ary images. See recent paper on N-ary Morphological Operator.

Research on "serious games." Video games and game engines can be used to develop educational games, to train employees and emergency personnel, to manipulate or visualize data, to simulate robotic systems, and to prototype complex systems. See a simple Space Shuttle game-based simulator, and my Advanced Computer Graphics course.

Research on patented "super-linear transistors" for wireless RF integrated circuits (RFIC) consisting of a PMOS FET in parallel with an NMOS FET. (see patents below) IEEE RFIC 2005 paper on new "super-linear transistors."

Java/Netbeans tutorial added. Quick tutorial on how to use Java/Netbeans to create an program to display images, write files, paint, etc. See also example Java/Netbeans program ImgProJv41 .

Research on patented linearization methods for wireless RF integrated circuits (RFIC). See 2009 paper on 4-stage methods and US 6,794,938 patent cover sheet and US 6,794,938 full patent for linearization methods, IEEE IMS 2003 paper on linearization methods and a recent thesis on these linearization methods.

Research on patented Built-In Self-Test (BIST) methods for digital circuits including SRAM. In particular: 1) digital circuits are tested with voltages between normal logic level voltages, and 2) digital circuits are tested by inducing controlled-width power supply current pulses (controlled-Iddt). US 6,833,724 patent cover sheet and US 6,833,724 full patent for BIST.

Research on a mixed-signal fault simulator for mixed-signal Built-In Self-Test (BIST) Sponsored by DARPA NeoCAD project, and managed by Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, USAF, Wright-Patterson AFB.

RF / Wireless Engineering Laboratory for radio frequency and microvave systems and devices.

The development of Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits and design tools.

Agilent ADS design software lab for radio frequency design.

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) paper , and an older introductory paper.

An image texture-segmentation program called teXan.

A general image processing program called X2D .

.	Multiresolution Design of Gabor Filter Banks for Texture Segmentation research summary. This novel method enables simultaneous design of both a set of tuned Gabor filters and an accompanying Bayesian classifier.

An audio signal-processing program called Xvox .

Lung segmentation and OpenGL rendering of segmented airway.

Document analysis of mixed text/halftone documents.

Introduction to UNIX and C++.

Matlab bugs

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Courses I am teaching

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ECGR 6990

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