Chiman Kwan
ChimanKwan(S’85-M’93-SM’98)receivedhisBSwithhonorsinElectronicsfromtheChineseUniversityofHongKongin1988,andMSandPh.D.degreesinelectricalengineeringfromtheUniversityofTexasatArlingtonin1989and1993,respectively.Currently,heistheFounderandChiefTechnologyOfficerofSignalProcessing,Inc.andAppliedResearchLLC,leadingresearchanddevelopmenteffortsinreal-timecontrol,chemicalagentdetection,biometrics,speechprocessing,imagefusion,missionplanning,andfaultdiagnosticsandprognostics.Hisprimaryresearchareasincluderobustandadaptivecontrolmethods,signalandimageprocessing,diagnosticsandprognostics,structuralhealthmonitoring,conditionbasedmaintenance,communications,neuralnetworks,remotesensing,andpatternrecognitionapplications.FromApril1991toFebruary1994,heworkedintheBeamInstrumentationDepartmentoftheSSC(SuperconductingSuperColliderNationalLaboratory)inDallas,Texas,wherehewasheavilyinvolvedinthemodeling,simulationanddesignofmoderndigitalcontrollersandsignalprocessingalgorithmsforthebeamcontrolandsynchroniza