Tom Weldon

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Penn State, Univ. Park, PA, 1995

M. Eng., Eng. Science, 1989, B.S., Electrical Eng., 1979, Penn State, Univ. Park, PA

North Carolina Licensed Professional Engineer, P.E. Reg. No. 023548

Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Responsible for teaching and research in communications, signal, and image processing

• 1995 - 96 Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Professor Award
• Communication system and radio frequency design
• Signal processing and image processing software design
• Mixed-signal BiCMOS integrated-circuit design using Mentor Graphics
• Multidimensional filtering, statistical modeling, and classifier design
• Software development, C++, GUI , Xwindows, Sun Solaris, UNIX
• Chairman of College Computing Facilities Committee

InterDigital Corp., King of Prussia, PA

Consultant for the design and development of new radio systems

• Broadband CDMA radio and system design
• Cellular radio design, TDMA, FDMA, IS-54
• Antenna, radio receiver and transmitter design: gain, NF, IP3

Penn State University, Univ. Park, PA

Laboratory Director, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant

Administered Sun workstations in addition to teaching classes and conducting PhD research

• Research: Image processing, signal processing, Gabor filters
• Software development: medical image processing software (INTERSEG)
• Lab Director: Administration of networked Sun SPARC workstations
• Installed and created one of Penn State's first web-sites in 1993

Tom Weldon

Experience, continued

American Electronic Laboratories, Lansdale, PA

Senior Engineer

Project-level responsibilities for the design and manufacture of communications equipment

• Project management and proposal writing
• Supervision of junior staff and project teams
• Digital signal-processing software design
• C and FORTRAN signal-processing software
• Automatic broadband modulation-recognition system design
• CDMA and frequency-hop spread-spectrum system design
• Radio system design: RF, UHF, microwave, millimeter
• Integrated 100 GHz antenna-downconverter design
• Communication security, TEMPEST test receiver

Alpha Industries, Microelectronics Div., Lansdale, PA

Project Engineer

Responsible for the design and development of analog and digital circuits

• Digital and analog hybrid microcircuit design
• Broadband amplifier design, 10-1000 MHz,
• RF mixer, quadrature mixer, oscillator, and coupler design

Motorola, Communications Div., Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Development Engineer

Designed portions of Motorola's first frequency-synthesized portable radios

• Designed hand-held portable two-way UHF and VHF Police/Fire radios
• Frequency synthesizer design
• Voltage-controlled oscillator design
• Low-cost high-volume commercial product design

Selected Technical Publications

• D. F. Dunn, T. P. Weldon, and W. E. Higgins, ``Extracting Halftones from Printed Documents Using Texture Analysis,'' Optical Engineering, Vol. 36 No. 4, pp. 1044-1052, April 1997.
• T. P. Weldon, W. E. Higgins, and D. F. Dunn, ``Gabor Filter Design for Multiple Texture Segmentation,'' Optical Engineering, Vol. 35 No. 10, pp. 2852-2863, October 1996.
• PhD thesis: Multiresolution Design of Multiple Gabor Filters for Texture Segmentation, May, 1995.
• T. P. Weldon, ``An Inductorless Double Scroll Chaotic Circuit,'' American Journal of Physics, Vol. 58 No. 10, pp. 936-941, October 1990.

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