James H. McClellan (born 5 October 1947) is the Byers
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of
Signal Processing
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at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. He is widely known for his creation of the McClellan
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and for his co-authorship of the
Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm.
Early life and education
James McClellan was born on October 5, 1947, in
Guam
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. McClellan received his B.S. in
Electrical Engineering from
Louisiana State University
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in 1969.
He went on to receive an M.S. (1972) and a Ph.D. (1973) from
Rice University
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.
Career
In 1973, he joined the research staff of
MIT
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's
Lincoln Laboratory
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. In 1975, he became a professor at MIT's
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department before leaving to join
Schlumberger. Since 1987, he has been at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. McClellan is a Fellow of the
IEEE
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.
He received the
Acoustics,
Speech, and
Signal Processing
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Technical Achievement Award in 1987,
the IEEE Signal Processing Society Award in 1996,
and the
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal in 2004 (together with
Thomas W. Parks).
Books
* ''Number Theory in Digital Signal Processing'', J. H. McClellan and C. M. Rader, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1979, .
* ''Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using MATLAB'', J. H. McClellan, C. S. Burrus,
A. V. Oppenheim, T. W. Parks,
R.W. Schafer, H. W. Schuessler, Prentice Hall, 1998, .
* ''Signal Processing First: A Multimedia Approach'', J. H. McClellan,
R.W. Schafer, M. A. Yoder, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998, .
* ''DSP First: A Multimedia Approach'', J. H. McClellan, R. W. Schafer, M. A. Yoder, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997, .
References
External links
Department pageat the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
Faculty profileat the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
Technical explanationof the Parks–McClellan FIR filter design algorithm.
Publicationsfrom
Google Scholar
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American electrical engineers
Louisiana State University alumni
Rice University alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Georgia Tech faculty
Living people
MIT Lincoln Laboratory people
1947 births