Louis L. Scharf
	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

Professional Experience

1985-present	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1982-1985	Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering
	University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1971-1982	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics
	Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1969-1971	Principal Development Engineer
	Honeywell, Inc., Marine Systems Center, Seattle, WA

Visiting Positions and International Cooperation

1992	Visiting Professor , EURECOM
	Sophia-Antipolis, France
1985	Invited Lecturer, Les Houches Summer School on Signal Processing
	Chamonix, France
1981	Visiting Professor, Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications
	Paris, France
1981	Visiting Professor, University of LaPlata
	LaPlata, Argentina
1977-1978	Maitre de Conference, University de Paris-Sud
	CNRS Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes
1974-1975	Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
	Duke University, Durham, NC

Academic Honors and Awards

• 2000 Third Millenium Medal, IEEE
• 1998 College Research Award, University of Colorado
• 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award
• Distinguished Lecturer for Signal Processing Society, 1993-1994
• Fellow of IEEE
• Faculty Excellence Award from American Electronics Association, 1988
• Administrative Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 1984
• Nominee for University-wide Teaching Award, Colorado State University, 1977
• Electrical Engineering Teaching Award, Colorado State University, 1971-1972
• NDEA Title IV Fellow, 1967-1969

Courses Taught

ECEN 1000	Freshman Seminar
ECEN 1400	Methods and Problems in ECE
ECEN 3300	Linear Systems
ECEN 3810	Introduction to Probability
ECEN 5612	Noise and Random Processes
ECEN 5632	Theory and Application of Digital Filtering
ECEN 5642	Modern Methods of Spectral Estimation
ECEN 5652	Detection and Extraction of Signals from Noise
ECEN 5672	Digital Image Processing
ECEN 5692	Principles of Digital Communication
ECEN 7632	Advanced Digital Signal Processing Methods

Publications

Books and Monographs

L.L. Scharf, Statistical Signal Processing: Detection, Estimation, and Time Series Analysis (New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990).

L.L. Scharf and R.T. Behrens, A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with MATLAB Experiments) (New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990).

L.L. Scharf, "The SVD and Reduced Rank Signal Processing," Chapter 1 in The SVD and its Applications, R. Vaccaro, ed. (Elsevier, 1991).

C.T. Mullis and L.L. Scharf, "Quadratic Estimators of the Power Spectrum," Chapter One of Advances in Spectrum Estimation, Simon Haykin, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990).

L.L. Scharf, "Chapter 2: Topics in Statistical Signal Processing," Signal Processing, J.L. Lacoume et al., eds. (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987), pp. 83-204.

Journal Articles since 1990

M. L. McCloud and L. L. Scharf, "Interference estimation with applications to blind multiple-access communication over fading channels,'' IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 947-961, May 2000.

L. L. Scharf and C. T. Mullis, "Canonical coordinates and the geometry of inference, rate and capacity," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 824-831, Mar. 2000.

L. L. Scharf, L. T. McWhorter, and S. Kraut, "Adaptive coherence estimators for detection,'' to appear Signal Processing, 2000.

S. Kraut, L. L. Scharf, and L. T. McWhorter, "Adaptive subspace detectors,'' to appearIEEE Trans. Signal Processing., 2000.

M. L. McCloud and L. L. Scharf, "Asymptotic analysis of the MMSE multiuser detector for non-orthogonal multipulse modulation,'' to appearIEEE Trans. Commun., 2000.

S. Kraut and L. L. Scharf, "The CFAR adaptive subspace detector is scale-invariant GLRT,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 2538-2541, Sept. 1999.

M. L. McCloud, L. L. Scharf, and C. T. Mullis, "Lag-windowed and multiply-data-windowed spectrum estimators are roughly equivalent,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 839-43, Mar. 1999.

L. T. McWhorter and L. L. Scharf, "Quadratic covariance bounds,'' submitted to IEEE Trans. Signal Processing., 1999.

M. McCloud and L. L. Scharf, "A new subspace identification algorithm for high resolution DOA estimation,'' IEEE Trans. Ant. and Prop., 1999, submitted.

J. S. Goldstein, I. J. Reed, and L. L. Scharf, "A multistage representation of the Wiener filter based on orthogonal projections,'' IEEE Trans Inform Th, vol. 44, no. 7, Nov. 1998.

L. L. Scharf and J. K. Thomas, "Wiener filters in canonical coordinates for transform coding, filtering, and quantizing,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 647-654, March 1998.

L. T. McWhorter and L. L. Scharf, "Multiwindow estimators of correlation,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 440-448, Feb. 1998.

L. L. Scharf and S. Kraut, "Geometries, invariances, and SNR interpretations of matched and adaptive subspace detectors,'' Traitement du Signal, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 527-34, 1998.

E. M. Dowling, R. D. DeGroat, D. A. Linebarger, L. L. Scharf, and M. Vis, "Reduced polynomial order linear prediction,'' IEEE Signal Proc Lett, vol. 3, pp. 92-94, Mar. 1996.

L. T. McWhorter and L. L. Scharf, "Nonlinear maximum likelihood estimation of autoregressive time series,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 1-11, Dec. 1995.

J. Thomas, L.L. Scharf, and D.W. Tufts, "Probability of a subspace swap," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., 1995.

A. Thorpe and L.L. Scharf, "Date adaptive rank shaping methods for solving least squares problems," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., 1995.

M.L. Vis and L.L. Scharf, "A note on recursive maximum likelihood," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., SP-42:10, pp. 2881-2883, October 1994.

L.L. Scharf and B. Friedlander, "Matched subspace detectors," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., SP-42:8, pp. 2146-2157, August 1994.

M.P. Clark and L.L. Scharf, "Two-dimensional modal analysis based on maximum likelihood," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., SP-42:6, pp. 1443-1452, June 1994.

R.T. Behrens and L.L. Scharf, "Signal processing applications of pblique projection operators," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., SP-42:6, pp. 1413-1424, June 1994.

S.D. Voran and L.L. Scharf, "Polar coordinate quantizers," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., SP-42:6, pp. 1559-1563, June 1994.

L.T. McWhorter and L.L. Scharf, "Cramer-Rao bounds for deterministic modal analysis," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., SP-41, pp. 1847-1862, May 1993.

L.L. Scharf and L.T. McWhorter, "Geometry of the Cramer-Rao bound," Signal Processing, 31:3, pp. 1-11, April 1993.

M.P. Clark and L.L. Scharf, "On the complexity of IQML algorithms," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., SP-40, pp. 1811-1813, July 1992.

L.L. Scharf, "The SVD and reduced-rank signal processing," Signal Processing, 24, pp. 111-130, November 1991.

W.P. Burleson and L.L. Scharf, "A VLSI design methodology for distributed arithmetic," Journ. VLSI Signal Proc., 2, pp. 235-252, 1991.

B.D. Van Veen and L.L. Scharf, "Estimation of structured covariance matrices and multiple window spectrum analysis," IEEE Trans. ASSP, 38:8, pp. 1467-1472, August 1990.

C.J. Demeure and L.L. Scharf, "Sliding windows and lattice algorithms for computing QR factors in the least squares theory of linear prediction," IEEE Trans. ASSP, ASSP-38:4, pp. 721-725, April 1990.

J.F. Hauer, C.J. Demeure, and L.L. Scharf, "Initial results in prony analysis of power system response signals," IEEE Trans. Power Sys., PS-5:1, pp. 80-90, February 1990.

W. P. Burleson and L. L. Scharf, "A systolic VLSI chip for implementing orthogonal transforms,'' Special Issue on Custom IC Technologies, IEEE Journ. Solid State Circuits, vol. SC-24, Apr. 1989.