YAIR BARNIV                                                                                                                                     US citizen, “Secret" clearance

ybarniv@mail.arc.nasa.gov                                                                                                                     Last updated: 1/16/2002

 Tel: (415)604-5451

 

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVES

 

An R&D engineering position in system analysis, design, optimization, simulation, and algorithm development in areas such as Command-Control-Communications, Signal/image processing, Radar/SAR, IR Systems, Guidance and Navigation, Detection, and Tracking, Human Factors, Human sensory systems, Human/Machine interfaces, Virtual Environment Applications.

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

Total of 38 years of engineering experience in: missile guidance, telemetry, navigation and avionics systems, servo/control system design, digital and optical signal/image processing, radar air-traffic control, mass-transit systems, SAR design, Neural Networks, Human/Machine interface, Virtual Environment technology development and applications, and a broad range of related areas.

 

Able to conceptualize new ideas. Experienced in developing simulation models for analysis and performance evaluation. Able to convert system operational requirements into realizable design specifications and establish test and evaluation criteria.

 

EDUCATION

 

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: M.S. 6/78, Ph.D. 6/81 in Communications, Stochastic Processes, Signal/image Processing.

 

TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY (ISRAEL): 70/72, Courses towards MSEE in Control Systems and Digital Signal Processing.

 

WEIZMAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE (REHOVOT, ISRAEL): 71/73, course work in flight control,  synthesis of feedback systems, interceptor dynamics.

 

TECHNION (HAIFA, ISRAEL): 59/63, B.Sc. in EE.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

NASA/AMES RESEARCH CENTER: Jan. 90 - present.

 

Present Project Title:  "Metrics and Methods for the Perceptual Design of Virtual Transparency". Specific work in  “Using EMG to Anticipate Head Motion for Virtual Environment Applications”.

 

Developed algorithms for passive ranging based on Optical Flow from cameras in a stereo configuration in the context of Nap-of-the-Earth Helicopter navigation.

 

Did system analysis for an MTI (Moving Target Indicator) and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) to be used for detection of airborne and on-runway obstacles for the High-Speed-Research effort (supersonic transport).

 

SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY: Aug. 89 - Jan 90. Developed innovative three-dimensional Synthetic Aperture Radar that can locate moving targets correctly and measure their radial speeds. This radar is especially useful in imaging the ocean surface for submarine detection.

 

NASA/AMES RESEARCH CENTER: Nov. 88 - Aug. 89.

Developed algorithm that applies Velocity Filtering to Optical Flow computations.

 

SAXPY COMPUTER CORPORATION: June 87 - Aug. 88.

Developed new techniques in the area of Non-Acoustical Anti-Submarine-warfare for DARPA/NTO.

 

SYSTEMS CONTROL TECHNOLOGY: June 79 - June 87.  Condensed list:

 

  1. Applied Dynamic Programming Algorithm to Cruise-Missile path optimization.
  2. Developed closed-loop ECM (Electronic counter Measures) techniques for various types of radars.
  3. Analyzed feasibility of a terminal-homing SAR anti-tank missile.
  4. Developed statistical models for Ballistic Missiles interception.
  5. Analyzed effect of Forward-Looking-Sensor on Cruise-Missile survivability.
  6. Analyzed miss-distance of anti-ship missiles.
  7. Developed Dynamic Programming Approach to streak detection in IR imagery.

 

ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES (IAI): May 68 - Sep. 77.  Condensed list:

 

1.   5/75-9/77: Headed an engineering group tasked with designing the Tel-Aviv "Mass- Transit System". Studied and visited existing worldwide systems concentrating on Automatic Train Control, Operation, and Supervision. Studied related areas of communications, displays, and man-machine interfaces. Developed simulation models for the above. Prepared specifications.

 

2. 1/74-5/75: Headed an engineering group tasked with preparing specifications for a missile design project. Coordinated design, implementation, integration, and field-testing. Developed simulations in order to optimize critical parameters and define performance bounds.

 

3. 4/71-1/74: Did performance estimation, feasibility/cost-effectiveness studies on a broad spectrum of projects in areas of Electro-acoustics, Radar, and Navigation.

 

4. 1/70-4/71: Designed control loops for a missile including guidance and homing laws and logic.

 

MILITARY SERVICE: June 63 - May 68.

 

Served as commissioned officer in the Israeli Air-Force. Was in charge of maintenance and development of airborne/ground radars and fire-control systems. Was also responsible for automatic landing instrumentation.

 

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

  1. “A ground-based navigation system," internal IAI, January 1970.
  2.  “A compensation method for the Radome effect in a proportional navigation system," internal IAI, February 1971.
  3. “A real-time G-bias compensation method," internal IAI, August 1970.
  4. “Location of guns through the use of acoustical detection," internal IAI, October 1971.
  5.  “Time of arrival (TOA) navigation," internal IAI, May 1972.
  6. “An algorithm for fire-zone determination for a ground-to-ground missile," internal IAI, November 1974.
  7. “A centralized supervision system for a mass-transit system," internal IAI, December 1976.
  8. “Intensity disparity compensation in optical pattern recognition," M.S. Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University, May 1978.
  9. “Correlation of images with random contrast reversals," (with H. Mostafavi and David Casasent), SPIE, vol. 238, Image Processing for Missile Guidance, p. 156, 1980.
  10.  “Multi-sensor image registration," Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University, February 1981.
  11.  ”Dynamic programming solution for detecting dim moving targets," IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electron. Systems, vol. 21, no. 3, March 1985.
  12.  “Effects of wind-gust on the stability of a missile's fight path and the implication on the spectrum spread of a SAR," SCT technical memo TM 9339-314-01, July 1979.
  13. “SAR use for anti-tank missiles," SCT technical memo TM 9339-314-02, July 1979.
  14. “Fine angular control for cruise missiles," SCT technical memo TM 5271-006, December 1979.
  15. “The mixed threat problem in ballistic missile penetration," SCT technical memos TM 6857-005 and TM 6857-006, March 1980.
  16. “Alternate mission optimization systems for cruise missiles," SCT TM 6433-100-1, March 1980.
  17. “The benefits of using a forward-looking sensor on-board a cruise missile," SCT TM 6433-002, June 1980.
  18. ”Tracking loops gain-control through the AGC in a mono-pulse radar," SCT TM 5364-002, September 1980.
  19. “De-stabilization of the APQ-112 mono-pulse radar through the use of reduced duty cycle to induce gain-switching," SCT TM 5364-005, February 1981.
  20. “Evaluation of SAR for anti-tank missiles," SCT TM 5376-120-01, March 1981.
  21. “The ultimate performance criterion for a closed-loop ECM system," SCT TM 5364-010, May 1981.
  22. “Ship-borne closed-loop ECM techniques, SCT TM 5456-001, December 1981.
  23. “Dual-emitter gain-switching/blinking algorithm for mono-pulse radar de-stabilization," SCT TM 5456-002, January 1982.
  24. “The general case of miss-distance optimization for a ship using blinking," SCT TM 5456-003, June 1982.
  25. Y. Barniv and O. Kella, “Dynamic Programming Solution for Detecting Dim Moving Targets, PART II: Analysis", IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-23, No. 6, Nov. 1987, pp. 776-788.
  26. Chapter 4: “Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Detecting Dim Moving Targets" of the book “Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Advanced Applications", Edited by Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Artech House 1990.
  27. “Error Analysis of Combined Optical-Flow and Stereo Passive Ranging", IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-28, No. 4, Oct. 1992, pp. 978-990.
  28. “Application of Velocity Filtering to Optical-Flow Passive Ranging", IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-28, No. 4, Oct. 1992, pp. 957-970.
  29. “Passive Ranging Using Image Expansion", IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-31, No. 1, Jan. 1995, pp. 358-375.
  30. Y. Baram, and Y. Barniv, “Obstacle Detection by Recognizing Binary Expansion Patterns”, IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-32, No. 1, Jan. 1996, pp. 191-198.
  31.  
  32. “Airborne Moving-Target-Indicator (MTI) Radar for Airline Operations, NASA TM, July 26 1997.
  33. Airborne SAR for Airline Operations, NASA TM, June 5, 1998.
  34. Using EMG to Predict Head Motion for Virtual Environment (VE) Applications (with Mario Aguilar, Aaron Garrett of MCIS Dept., Jacksonville State University, Aug 2001.

 

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