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Paul B. Deignan
[email protected]
(903) 457-7893
Education
Ph.D., Information Theoretic System Identification, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2006
M.S., Mathematics (Pure-Analysis), Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2006
M.S.M.E., Virtual Sensing: The Development of a Methodology for Internal Combustion Engine
Torque Estimation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1999
B.S.E.E. (Cum Laude), Texas A&M University, College Station, 1995
B.S.M.E. (Cum Laude) Texas A&M University, College Station, 1995
Experience
L-3 Communications/MID, Greenville, TX (2006-Present)
Principal Multi-Disciplined Engineer
Lead Data Fusion Researcher for L-3/Mission Integration Division
Texas A&M University-Commerce, Dept. of Computer Science, Commerce, TX (2010-Present)
Adjunct Faculty for Graduate Courses in Data Mining, Databases, and Algorithms
University of North Texas, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Denton, TX (2011-2012)
Adjunct Faculty for Undergraduate Course in Advanced Electronics
US Army (2006-Present: 2 years Active Duty / 4 years Reserves)
Military Intelligence Officer
S-2, 1/151st IN (Convoy Security Battalion, OIF-7)
Individual Ready Reserves (IRR)
US Army (1981-1999: 8 years Active Duty /10 years Reserves)
Military Intelligence Officer
Company Commander for a HHC, CSSB
Platoon Leader and Company Training Officer, CSSB
477th Military Intelligence Detachment (DIA: Logistics)
Military Intelligence Noncommissioned Officer
Infantry Noncommissioned Officer
1/9th IN (Light Infantry Battalion)
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Paul B. Deignan
[email protected]
(903) 457-7893
Publications
Deignan, P. and Boyle, F., 2013, “Processing of Aerial H.264 Data for Ground Object Tracking,”
SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing. In Preparation for Geospatial InfoFusion III.
Maleh, R., Boyle, F., and Deignan, P., 2012, “Geospatial Processing of Registered H.264 Data,”
SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Proceedings Volume 8396: Geospatial InfoFusion II.
Deignan, P. and Kusmanoff, A., 2011, “Hypercube Processing of Mixed Sensed Data Entropic
Associations,” SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing. Proceedings Volume 8053: Geospatial
InfoFusion Systems and Solutions for Defense and Security Applications.
Blasch, E., Deignan, P., Dockstader, S., Pellechia, M., Palaniappan, K., and Seetharaman, G.,
2011, “Contemporary Concerns in Geographical/Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
Processing,” Proceedings of the 2011 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference.
Maleh, R., Boyle, F., Deignan, P., and Yancey, J., 2011, “Interactive Video Compression for
Remote Sensing,” SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Proceedings Volume 8020: Airborne
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications VIII, pp. 80200T1 to 80200T-11.
Boyle, F., Yancey, J., Maleh, R., and Deignan, P., 2011, “Plenoptic Processing Methods for
Distributed Camera Arrays,” SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Proceedings Volume
8020: Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications
VIII, pp. 802012-1 to 802012-12.
Deignan, P., 2011, “Sensor Fusion Using Entropic Measures of Dependence,” Revista de
Matematica: Teoria y Aplicaciones, Vol. 18(2).
Deignan, P.B., “Estimation of Entropic Measures of Association,” 2011, Workshop on Statistical
Signal Processing.
Deignan, P.B., Wong, M., and Douglass, A., 2011, “Low-level Multi-INT Sensor Fusion using
Entropic Measures of Dependence,” Fusion 2011.
Fudge, G., Deignan, P., Anderson, J., Owoye, E., Scerri, P., and Glinton, R., 2007, “Adaptive
Distributed Sensing for Emitter Localization with Autonomous UAV Team Cooperation,”
Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP) Workshop, MIT-Lincoln Laboratory.
Joshi, A., Deignan, P., Meckl, P., King, G., and Jennings, K., 2005, “Information Theoretic Fault
Detection,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 1642-1647.
Deignan, P., King, G., Meckl, P., and Jennings, K., 2004, “Confidence Measure Estimation in
Dynamical Systems Model Input Set Selection,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Control
Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 2824-2829.
Deignan, P., King, G., and Meckl, P., 2003, “Combinatorial Optimization of Mutual Information
Estimates Using Time-Delayed Input Coordinates,” Intelligent Engineering Systems through
Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 13, pp. 267-272, ASME Press, New York.
Deignan, P., Meckl, P., and Franchek, M., 2002, “The MI-RBFN: Mapping for Generalization,”
Proceedings of the 2002 American Control Conference, Vol. 5, pp. 3840-3845.
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(903) 457-7893
Deignan, P., Franchek, M., and Meckl, P., 2002, “Efficient Information-Theoretic Model Input
Selection,” The 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. I-6358.
Deignan, P., Meckl, P., Franchek, M., Abraham, J., and Jaliwala, S., 2000, “Using Mutual
Information to Pre-process Input Data for a Virtual Sensor,” Proceedings of the 2000
American Control Conference, Vol. 4, pp. 2927-2931.
Kihm, K. and Deignan, P. , 1995, “Dynamic Surface Tension of Coal-Water Slurry Fuels,” Fuel,
Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 295-300.
Kihm, K. and Deignan, P., 1995, “Investigation of the Effect of the Coal Particle Sizes on the
Interfacial and Rheological Properties of Coal-Water Slurry Fuels,” 11th Annual Coal
Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractors Conference Proceedings,
pp. 407-414.
Kihm, K. and Deignan, P., 1993, “Interfacial Properties of Coal-Water Slurry Fuels on the
Effect of Coal Particle Sizes,” Proceedings of the 20thInternational Technical Conference on
Coal Utilization and Fuel Systems,” pp. 165-176.
Kihm, K. and Deignan, P., 1993, “Investigation of Dynamic Surface Tension of Coal Water
Slurry (CWS) Fuels for Application to Atomization Characteristics,” Proceedings of the 18th
International Technical Conference on Coal Utilization and Fuel Systems,” pp. 637-648.
Presentations (Selected)
“Recursive Data-Driven Information Search Technique,” The 18th International Symposium on
Mathematical Methods Applied to Science (SIMMAC), University of Costa Rica, January
2012.
“Hypercube Processing of Mixed Sensed Data Entropic Associations,” 86th Automatic Target
Recognition Working Group (ATRWG), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May 2011.
“Interactive Compression for Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI),” 86th Automatic Target
Recognition Working Group (ATRWG), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May 2011.
“Plenoptic Methods for Extracting 3D Structure from Airborne Video,” 86th Automatic Target
Recognition Working Group (ATRWG), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May 2011.
“Contemporary Concerns in Geographical/Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Processing,”
Invited Panel of Geospatial InfoFusion II, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Orlando,
April 2011.
“Information Theoretics for Sensor Fusion,” Invited presentation to the University of Buffalo
Industrial Engineering Colloquia, Buffalo, NY, October 2010.
“Information Theoretics for Data Analysis,” L-3 Technical Exchange, Washington D.C.,
September, 2010.
“Entropic Measures for Data Mining and Data Fusion,” Invited presentation to the Electrical
Engineering Department Senior Design Class of the University of North Texas, Denton, TX,
April 2010.
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“Information Theoretic Data Mining and Data Fusion,” Invited presentation to the Physics and
Astronomy Colloquia at TAMU-Commerce, Commerce, TX, March 2010.
“Sensor Fusion using Entropic Measures of Dependence,” The 17th International Symposium on
Mathematical Methods Applied to Science (SIMMAC), University of Costa Rica, January
2010.
“ISR and UAVs in Iraq,” L-3/MID Lunchtime Cross-Training Series, Greenville, TX, August
2009.
“Efficient Calculation of Multi-Sensor/Multi-Agent Entropic Maps,” 7th International
Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL,
April 2007.
Patents (Approved and in Preparation for Filing or Filed by L-3 Legal )
Automated Aerial Camera Distortion Correction by Linear Geographical Features
Method & System for the Human-in-the-Loop Foveation of Geo-Registered Imagery & Video
Automated Change Detection, Tracking, & Entity Identification from Compressed Video
Methodology for Achieving Super-Resolution of Sampled Signals via Multiple Samplers
Scholarly Service (Selected)
Session Chair for Geospatial InfoFusion I, II, and III of the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing
Conferences (2011-2013)
Session Chair for SIMMAC (2012)
Reviewer for Defense, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conferences (2011-2013)
Reviewer and Editor for Publications of Professor Ellina V. Grigorieva (2006-Present)
Honors, Awards, and Memberships (Selected)
Bronze Star, Operation Iraqi Freedom-7
Top Block, Military Intelligence Captain’s Career Course
Distinguished Graduate, Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course
Distinguished Military Graduate, Reserve Officer Training Corp
University Honors, Texas A&M University, 1994-1995
Engineering Scholars Program, Texas A&M University, 1994-1995
Metcalf & Eddy Scholarship, Society of American Military Engineers
Honor Award, Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association
Nov 10, 2012
Paul B. Deignan
[email protected]
(903) 457-7893
University Undergraduate Fellows, Texas A&M University, 1991-1992
Phi Kappa Phi, USMA Top 5% of Academic Class 1984-86
Dean’s List, USMA all semesters 1982-1985
Finalist, National Merit Scholarship
Senior Member IEEE, Member of AMS and SPIE
Certifications
Engineer in Training