James H. McClellan
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James H. McClellan is the Byers Professor of Signal Processing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
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. He is widely known for his creation of the McClellan transform and for his co-authorship of the Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm
Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm
The Parks-McClellan algorithm, published by James McClellan and Thomas Parks in 1972, is an iterative algorithm for finding the optimal Chebyshev finite impulse response filter. The Parks-McClellan algorithm is utilized to design and implement efficient and optimal FIR filters...

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Education

James H. McClellan received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
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 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
Rice University
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Career

In 1973, he joined the research staff of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
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. He later became a professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department
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 before leaving to join Schlumberger
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. Since 1987, he has been at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

. Prof. McClellan is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the Acoustics
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, Speech, and Signal Processing
Signal processing
Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...

 Technical Achievement Award in 1987, the Signal Processing Society Award]] in 1996, and the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is presented "for outstanding achievements in signal processing" theory, technology or commerce. The recipients of this award will receive a gold medal, together with a replica in bronze, a certificate and a honorarium.The award was established in...

 in 2004 (together with Thomas W. Parks
Thomas W. Parks
Thomas W. Parks is an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He is best known for his contributions to digital signal processing, especially digital filter design and computation of the fast Fourier transform...

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Books

  • Number Theory in Digital Signal Processing, J. H. McClellan and C. M. Rader, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1979, ISBN 0-84-937177-5.
  • Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using MATLAB, J. H. McClellan, C. S. Burrus, A. V. Oppenheim
    Alan V Oppenheim
    Alan Victor Oppenheim is a Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics , at the . He frequently performs magic tricks in class just for fun.His research interests...

    , T. W. Parks, R.W. Schafer
    Ronald W Schafer
    Ronald W. Schafer is an electrical engineer notable for his contributions to digital signal processing....

    , H. W. Schuessler, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-789009-5.
  • Signal Processing First: A Multimedia Approach, J. H. McClellan, R.W. Schafer
    Ronald W Schafer
    Ronald W. Schafer is an electrical engineer notable for his contributions to digital signal processing....

    , M.A. Yoder, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0-13-090999-8.

External links

  • Department page at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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  • Faculty profile at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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    The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

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  • Technical explanation of the Parks-McClellan FIR filter design algorithm.
  • Publications from Google Scholar
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