James H. McClellan

American electrical engineer
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IntroAmerican electrical engineer
PlacesUnited States of America
isEngineer Educator
Work fieldAcademia Engineering
Gender
Male
Birth5 October 1947
Age77 years
The details

Biography

James H. McClellan is the Byers Professor of Signal Processing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is widely known for his creation of the McClellan transform and for his co-authorship of the Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm.

Education

James H. McClellan received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1969. He went on to receive an M.S. (1972) and a Ph.D. (1973) from Rice University.

Career

In 1973, he joined the research staff of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. He later 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. He received the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Technical Achievement Award in 1987, the 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, ISBN 0-8493-7177-5.
  • 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, ISBN 0-13-789009-5.
  • Signal Processing First: A Multimedia Approach, J. H. McClellan, R.W. Schafer, M.A. Yoder, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0-13-090999-8.

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