Jacob Gunther
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department Head
Contact Information
Office Location: EL 149DPhone: 435-797-7229
Email: jake.gunther@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Biography
Jake Gunther is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has worked and consulted on projects in the areas of pattern recognition, speech recognition and synthesis, image processing, sonar array processing, and multi-rate signal processing. Recent projects have included echo and feedback cancellation, unmixing and sub-pixel target detection in hyperspectral imagery, data fusion, channel equalization, accelerating iterative decoding of error control codes, and system characterization using spread spectrum signaling.
Research Interests
His research interests include signal processing, statistical signal processing, array processing, adaptive filtering and its applications, independent component analysis, decision theory, estimation theory, and communication theory.
Awards
Teacher of the Year, 2015
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Senior Member of IEEE, 2011
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Award of Merit, 2010
IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Society
Nominated for Young Author Best Paper Award, 2010
Advisor of the Year, 2010
ECE Department
Outstanding Service, 2009
IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Society
Award of Merit in Innovative Use of Technology, 2007
Utah System of Higher Education
Teacher of the Year, 2005
College of Engineering
Technology Entrepreneur Award, 2005
Technology Commercialization Office
Researcher of the Year, 2004
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Teacher of the Year, 2004
College of Engineering
Teacher of the Year, 2004
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor of the Year, 2003
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Publications | Books
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2013). Minimum Symbol Error Rate Pulse Design with Robustness to Timing Jitter: Communication Systems: New Research. Nova Science Publishers
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Mortensen, D., Gunther, J., Droge, G., A Bin Packing Approach to Minimize Charging Cost for Electric Bus Fleets. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions
- Mortensen, D., Gunther, J., Droge, G., Whitaker, J., (2023). Cost Minimization for Charging Electric Bus Fleets. World Electric Vehicle Journal
- Whitaker, J.W, Droge, G., Hansen, M., Mortensen, D., Gunther, J., (2023). A Network Flow Approach to Battery Electric Bus Scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Contravariant Adaptation on the Manifold of Causal, FIR, Invertible Multivariable Matrix Systems . IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Contravariant Adaptation on the Manifold of Invertible Matrix Transfer Functions. IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- Dong, Z., Fan, P., Hu, R., Gunther, J.H, Lei, X., (2016). On the Spectral Efficiency of Rate and Subcarrier Bandwidth Adaptive OFDM Systems over Very Fast Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 65:8, 6038 - 6050. doi: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2472989
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2015). Continuum-State Hidden Markov Models with Dirichlet State Distributions. Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 12, 800 - 824. doi: 10.2514/1.I010260
- Berrett, C., Williams, G.P, Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2014). A Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Temperature-Emissivity Separation of Long-wave Hyperspectral Images. Technometrics, 56:2, 200 - 211. doi: 10.1080/00401706.2013.869262
- Fish, C.S, Swenson, C.M, Cowley, G., Barjatya, A., Neilsen, T., Gunther, J.H, Fullmer, R.R, Baktur, R., Sojka, J.J, (2014). Design, Development, Implementation, and On-orbit Performance of the Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment Mission. Space Science Review, 181:1 - 4, 61 - 120. doi: doi:10.1007/S11214-014-0034-x
- Gunther, J.H, Fish, C., Swenson, C.M, Moon, T.K, (2014). Reliable space-to-Earth communication as a secondary service in the 460-470 MHz band. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 33:2, 93 - 106. doi: 10.1002/sat.1072
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Broadus, C., Hou, W., Nelson, N., (2014). Turbo Processing for Speech Recognition. IEEE Transactions of Cybernectis, 44:1, 83 - 91. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2013.2247593
- Budge, S.E, Sallay, J., Wang, Z., Gunther, J.H, (2013). People Matching for Transportation Planning Using Texel Camera Data for Sequential Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 43:3, 619 - 629. doi: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2210414
- Stites, M., Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, Williams, G., (2013). Using Physically-Modeled Synthetic Data to Assess Hyperspectral Unmixing Approaches. Remote Sensing, 5:4, 1974 - 1997. doi: 10.3390/rs5041974
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2012). Multiple-Access via Turbo Joint Equalization. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 60:10, 3001-3010. doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.070912.110191
- Templin, J., Gunther, J.H, Tethys: A Category Definition in the Taxonomy of Configurable Computing Machine Architectures. Journal of Signal Processing Systems (Springer)
- Grant, C.S, Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Stites, M.R, Williams, G.P, (2012). Detection of Amorphously Shaped Objects Using Spatial Information Detection Enhancement (SIDE). IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5:2, 478 - 487. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2186284
- Gunther, J.H, (2012). Learning Echo Paths During Continuous Double-Talk Using Semi-Blind Source Separation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 20:2, 646-660. doi: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2164525
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2012). Entropy Minimization for Solving Sudoku. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 60:1, 508 - 513. doi: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2169253
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2011). Transform-Based Computation of the Distribution of a Linear Combination of Random Variables Over Arbitrary Finite Fields. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 18:12, 737 - 740 . doi: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2172792
- Bastian, M.R, Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2011). A Simplified Natural Gradient Learning Algorithm. Advances in Artificial Neural Systems, 2011, 1 - 9. doi: 10.1155/2011/407497
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2011). Probability of even parity of soft bits. IET Signal Processing, 5:6, 603 - 611 . doi: 10.1049/iet-spr.2010.0194
- Marchant, C.C, Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2010). An Iterative Least Square Approach to Elastic-Lidar Retrievals for Well-Characterized Aerosols. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48:5, 2430 - 2444 . doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2038903
- Flake, J., Moon, T.K, McKee, M., Gunther, J.H, (2010). Application of the relevance vector machine to canal flow prediction in the Sevier River Basin. Agricultural Water Management , 97:2, 208 - 214. doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.09.010
- Contreras, A.A, Moon, T.K, Dasu, A., Gunther, J.H, (2010). Micronetworking: reliable communication on 3D integrated circuits. Electronics Letters, 46:4, 291 - 293 . doi: 10.1049/el.2010.2193
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2009). Minimum Bayes Risk Adaptive Linear Equalizers. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57:2, 4788 - 4799 . doi: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2026105
- Moon, T.K, Crockett, J.S, Gunther, J.H, Chauhan, O.S, (2009). Iterative Decoding Using Eigenmessages. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 57:12, 3618 - 3628 . doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.12.050230
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2009). Minimum Symbol Error Rate Carrier Phase Recovery of QPSK. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57:8, 3101 - 3107 . doi: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2020746
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2009). Burst Mode Synchronization of QPSK on AWGN Channels Using Kurtosis. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 57:8, 2453 - 2462 . doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.08.070338
- Gunther, J.H, Eames, B., Nelson, D., (2009). Description of EduCOM: A graphical modeling and programming language for teaching and learning digital communication systems. Computer Applications of Engineering Education, 19:4, 1 - 14. doi: 10.1002/cae.20354
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Kupin, J.J, (2009). Sinkhorn Solves Sudoku. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 55:4, 1741 - 1746 . doi: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2013004
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2008). Partial Specification Frequency-Domain Least-Squares Filter Design and System Identification. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 15, 53 - 56. doi: 10.1109/LSP.2007.911139
- Gunther, J.H, Wilson, G., (2008). Mean-Squared Error Analysis of Adaptive Subband-Based System Identification. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 16:8, 1452 - 1465 . doi: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2002758
- Gunther, J.H, Keller, D., Moon, T.K, (2007). A Generalized BCJR Algorithm and Its Use in Iterative Blind Channel Identification. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14:10, 661 - 664 . doi: 10.1109/LSP.2007.898316
- Smith, P., Furse, C., Gunther, J.H, (2005). Analysis of Spread Spectrum Time Domain Reflectometry for Wire Fault Location. IEEE Sensors Journal, 5:6, 1469 - 1478 . doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2005.858964
- Gunther, J.H, Ankapura, M., Moon, T.K, (2005). A Generalized LDPC Decoder for Blind Turbo Equalization. , 53:10, 3847 - 3856 . doi: 10.1109/TSP.2005.855396
- Henderson, S.B, Swenson, C.M, Gunther, J.H, Christensen, A.B, Paxton, L.J, (2005). Method for characterization of the equatorial anomaly using image subspace analysis of Global Ultraviolet Imager data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 110, doi: 10.1029/2005JA011080
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2005). On the Equivalence of Two Welch–Berlekamp Key Equations and Their Error Evaluators. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 51:1, 399 - 401 . doi: 10.1109/TIT.2004.839520
- Gunther, J.H, Lopez-Valcarce, R., (2004). Blind Input, Initial State, and System Identification of SIMO Laguerre Systems. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 52:12, 3357 - 3369 . doi: 10.1109/TSP.2004.837438
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2002). Contravariant adaptation on structured matrix spaces. Signal Processing, 82:10, 1389 – 1410. doi: 10.1016/S0165-1684(02)00281-5
- Gunther, J.H, (2002). Simultaneous DFT and IDFT of Real N-Point Sequences. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 9:8, 245 - 246. doi: 10.1109/LSP.2002.803006
- Gunther, J.H, Swindlehurst, A.L, (2002). Recursive Blind Symbol Estimation of Convolutionally Coded Co-channel Signals. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 48:4, 956 - 965 . doi: 10.1.1.50.5128
- Gunther, J.H, Swindlehurst, A.L, (2000). On the Use of Kernel Structure for Blind Equalization. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 48:3, 799 - 809. doi: 10.1109/78.824674
- Swindlehurst, A.L, Gunther, J.H, (1999). Methods for Blind Equalization and Resolution of Overlapping Echoes of Unknown Shape. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 47:5, 1245 - 1254. doi: 10.1109/78.757212
- Beard, R., Kenney, J., Gunther, J.H, Lawton, J., Stirling, W., (1999). Nonlinear Projection Filter Based on Galerkin Approximation. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 22:2, 258 - 266. doi: 10.2514/2.4403
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Other
- Gunther, J.H, (2012). Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment - High-Speed Satellite Ground State. Ellis Research: A National Instruments Company
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.