Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, NMSU, 1985
• M.S.E.E., NMSU, 1978
• B.A. Physics and Mathematics, Franklin and Marshall College (PA), 1976

Dissertation

A Comparison of Short Time Predictions of Temperature for The Kalman Filter, Box-Jenkins, and Persistence Techniques

May 1985

Committee:

• Prof. Lonnie C. Ludeman, Chairman
• Prof. Robert L. Armstrong, Dept. of Physics
• Prof. Frank F. Carden
• Prof. James E. Steelman
• Prof. John D. Thomas, Dept. of Mathematics
• Dr. Kenneth E. Kunkel, ASL, WSMR

Technical Reports and Papers

• S.Horan, Conference: "Simulation Programs for Convolutionally Coded Multi-H", Modeling and simulation conference, 1992.
  
• E.Burlbaw and S. Horan, "Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Porpogation Validation and Modification", Science and Technology Corporation Technical Report No. 2141, February 1987.
  
• S. Horan, "A Comparison of Short Time Predictions of Temperature for The Kalman Filter, Box-Jenkins, and Persistence Techniques", Atmospheric Science Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, August 1982
  
• S. Horan "Compression of Digital Images Using Sparse Matrix Techniques", Final Report for ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Navy Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., August 1981.
  

Research Interests

• Data Compression
• Compression Coding for Data Storage or Transmission
• Bandwidth Efficient Modulation

Research links

Funding Agencies (past): Currently not funded

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Advanced Range Telemetry (ARTM) Program Edwards AFB

Entropy Plots:

Data Compression Results

Publications:

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