Mark Andrew Richards (January 20, 1952) is a retired

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engineer best known for his textbooks and professional education courses in the area of radar and radar signal processing. He remains employed part time as a Principal Research Engineer and adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the

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and as a private consultant and expert witness. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Richards grew up primarily in

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. He moved to

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to attend Georgia Tech, earning a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1974. He obtained a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from

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in 1976. In 1982 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Georgia Tech. His thesis topic was "Helium Speech Enhancement Using the Short-Time Fourier Transform". Richards subsequently joined the research faculty at the

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, ultimately serving as Chief of the Radar Systems Division, Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, During this time, he served two years in 1993–1995 at the

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(DARPA) as Program Manager of the Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program. Other employers included ESL, Inc. and Lockheed-Georgia. In 2002, Richards transferred to Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Richards is the author of the textbook
Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing
' (McGraw-Hill, second edition, 2014). He is also the lead editor and the author of five chapters in the textbook
Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles
' (SciTech Publishing, 2010). Richards was named a

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(IEEE) in 2012, cited ''"for contributions in radar signal processing education''".

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