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Paul Chirlian

CHEVRON USA DON E. WILSON PROFESSOR AND
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS,
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Office.  EN915
Phone.  540.280.5504
Fax. 504.280.7413

 

ENG. SC.D., 1956 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
M.E.E., 1952 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
B.E.E., 1950 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
     
     
Research Interests

Dr. Chirlian's research interests include effective bandwidth of signals and systems, where bandwidth is based on error in the transient response, and cryogenic electronics where research with Ph.D. students solved the problem of excess noise in analog cryotron amplifiers. Much of his research has been in the area of signal processing, especially in the area of network and filter synthesis. Recently he has been working in the area of fiber-optic utilization in shipboard applications. This research resulted in a number of damage control sensors and a fiber-optic based device to measure torque and thrust. Dr. Chirlian is dedicated to the education of students, and most of his research has been conducted in conjunction with his Ph.D. students.

Dr. Chirlian is the author of 28 textbooks, many of which have been translated into a number of languages. These are in the areas of electronics, circuit theory, and computer languages. As PI or Co-PI he has received support of over $2.5 million from various government agencies.

 
Honors, Distinctions, and Professional Service:

Fellow of the IEEE

Henry Morton Great Teacher Award, Stevens Institute of Technology

UNO National Alumni Association's Career Award for Excellence in Research

Member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi

 
Selected Publications


Dr. Chirlian is the author of 28 books and over 70 research publications. Some representataive ones are:

A Cryotron Linear Amplifier, IEEE Trans. on Component Parts, Vol. CP-10, pp. 144-146, Dec. 1963

The Cryotron as an Ultra Low Noise Amplifier - Elimination of Excessive Cryotron Noise," IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, Vol. MAG-2, pp. 390-393, 1966. Also presented at Integmag Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, April 1966, (Co-author: A.K. Johnson)

Restrictions Imposed Upon the Transient and Frequency Response of Networks," Quart. of Applied Math., Vol. 26, pp. 413-423, 1968

Restriction on the Effective Bandwidth of a Signal, IEEE Trans. on Circuit Theory, Vol. CT-18, pp. 422-425, 1971 (Co-author: C. Giardina)

Linear Phase Filter Design on a Time Domain Basis, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 69, pp. 836-837, 1981. (Co-author: B. Philobus).

An Analysis of Errors in Wave Digital Filters, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-28, pp. 154-160, 1981 (Co-author: D. VanHaften).

On The Effective Bandwidth of Sampled Signals, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-33, pp. 268-274, 1986, (Co-authors: C. Giardina and C. Suffel)

Bounds on The Effective Bandwidth of Two Dimensional Functions, Invited Paper - Twentieth Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, March 20-22, 1988, Charlotte, NC (Co-author C. Amirat)

On the Critical Point Detection of Digital Shapes, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 17(8): 737-748, 1995, (Co-author P.Zhu)

A New Generalized Energy Criteria for the Passivity of Digital Networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 45 No. 8 1997 pp. 1909-1918 (Co-authors J. Bush and S. Basu)