Charles L. Weber, Professor

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Dayton, 1958
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1960
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1964.

Research Interests: spread-spectrum systems, acquisition and tracking, radar systems, and blind equalization.

Dr. Weber was a Hughes Fellow during his M.S. at USC. Of the publications that have resulted from his research, one (with R. A. Scholtz) was nominated for the Browder J. Thompson IEEE paper of the year award. In 1982, he became the founding director of the Communication Sciences Institute. A Fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Weber was selected as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Dayton, Ohio in 1988. In 1989, Dr. Weber received the USC School of Engineering Service Award.

Full-time positions: Hughes Aircraft Company, 1958-1962; University of Southern California, 1962-.

Consulting affiliations: TRW.

Book: Elements of Detection and Signal Design, McGraw-Hill, 1968; Reprinted Springer Verlag, 1988.

Selected Publications:

1. "A Unified Approach to Serial-Search Spread-Spectrum Code Acquisition, Parts I and II," with A. Polydoros, IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 1984.
2. "Maximum Likelihood Blind Equalization," with M. Ghosh, The Journal of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, June 1992.
3. "Airborne Clutter Performance of Randomized Radar Waveforms," with M. Maier, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 1995.

TEACHING SCHEDULE
SPRING 2008 EE 664 - Advanced Topics in Communication Theory