Winser E. Alexander

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BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University; MS (1966) in Electrical Engineering

Ph.D (1974) in Electrical Engineering

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University long

Awards and Honors

Winser has received many awards including the following:

1. In June 1993, Winser received the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Minorities in Engineering Award for Leadership in the Conception, Organization and Operation of Precollege and College Activities to Increase Participation of Minorities in Engineering.
2. In September 1998, Winser received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the White House Office of Science and Technology and National Science Foundation.
3. In March 2000, Winser received the Dr. Janice A. Lumkin Educator of the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

RESEARCH

Winser Alexander's research spans the areas of digital signal processing, image processing, parallel algorithms, and parallel computer architecture. His current research program involves the development of high performance algorithms for digital signal processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and computational engineering. Winser and his colleagues have developed a paradigm called the Block Data Flow Paradigm for implementing algorithms such as 1-D and 2-D digital filters, the DCT, the 1-D and 2-D wavelet transform, LU decomposition, QR decomposition, etc. on a multiprocessor system. They have developed a multiprocessor architecture called the Block Data Parallel Architecture (BDPA) that can use this approach to achieve almost linear speedup, high throughput and high efficiency for these algorithms.

Winser served as the Director of Graduate Programs for the ECE Department from August 1988 to May 1997 and from June 2001 to August 2002. He has developed graduate courses in Multidimensional Digital Processing and DSP Architecture, and he teaches courses at the undergraduate level in Logic Design and Digital Signal Processing.

Representative Publications

1. Sung H. Yoon, Jung H. Kim, Winser E. Alexander, Seong M. Park, and Kwang H. Sohn, ``An optimum solution for scale-invariant object recognition based on the multiresolution approximation'', Pattern Recognition, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 889-908, 1998.
2. K. Sohn, J. H. Kim, and W. E. Alexander, ``A mean field annealing approach to robust corner detection'' , IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 82-90, 1998.
3. Shawkang M. Wu, Gary A. Ybarra and Winser E. Alexander, ``A Complex Optimal Signal Processing Algorithm for Frequency-Stepped CW Data'', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 754-757, 1998.
4. Winser E. Alexander, Douglas Reeves and Clay Gloster, Jr., ``Parallel Image Processing with the Block Data Parallel Architecture'', Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 84, no. 7, 1996, pp. 947-968.
5. William Edmonson and Winser E. Alexander, ``Transient suppression at the boundary for 2-D digital systems'', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 42, no. 11, 1995, pp. 716-717.
6. Kwanghoon Sohn, Winser E. Alexander, Jung H. Kim and Wesley Snyder, ``Constrained Regulation for Boundary Point Detection'', IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics., vol. 24, no. 2, 1994.
7. Hongyu Xu and Winser E. Alexander, ``A High Performance Architecture for Real-Time Signal Processing and Matrix Operations'', Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May, 1992.
8. Seong-Mo Park and Winser E. Alexander, ``A reconfigurable processor architecture for high-speed multidimensional digital filtering'', Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1990, pp. 747-750.
9. Daehoon Kim and Winser E. Alexander, ``The unbiased gradient type LS algorithm for adaptive spectrum estimation'', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 37, no. 3, 1990, pp. 416-420.
10. Mohamed Y. Dabbagh and Winser E. Alexander, ``Multiprocessor implementation of 2-D denominator-separable digital filters for real-timeprocessing'', IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP37, no. 6, 1989, pp. 872-881.
11. Chwen-Jye Ju and Winser E. Alexander, ``Block realization of multidimensional IIR digital filters and its finite word effects'' IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems vol. CAS-34, no. 9, 1987, pp. 1030-1044.
12. Jung H. Kim and Winser E. Alexander, ``A multiprocessor architecture for two dimensional digital filters'', IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-36, no. 7, 1987, pp. 876-884.

refereces: Roger Guibinga; http://www4.ncsu.edu/~winser/; http://www4.ncsu.edu:8030/eos/users/w/winser/ww/nsbe.html; http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/dept/directory/bio.php?userid=winser

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