Jonathan Benson Email & Phone Number

Beavercreek, Ohio

• Technical:
• Principal investigator for the AFRL OPERA program investigating advanced physics-based radar and ladar features for automatic target recognition (ATR). Coordinating the efforts of two university teams and other.
• Principal investigator for the AFRL CASE program investigating approaches to drive down the sustainment costs for air-to-ground radar-based ATR through the development of novel modeling techniques and advanced.
• Principal investigator for the AFRL PRIDE program creating bistatic SAR ATR technologies.
• Providing senior technical guidance for a ladar-based combat ID capability development program.
• Served as the local technical lead for an EW research, development, and test effort.

Dayton, Ohio And Champaign, Illinois

• Technical:
• Received special recognition by NASA for developing algorithms to automatically detect and characterize debris liberated from the Space Shuttle during ascent using data from multiple radars. Included as co-inventor on.
• Supported several DoD customers by developing successful solutions to their radar signal and signature processing, analysis, feature extraction and exploitation challenges.
• Served as principle investigator for several research study efforts in support of the AFRL National Signature Center dealing with topics including ATR feature and performance analysis, similarity science and signature.
• Developed numerous successful signal and image processing algorithms for target detection, segmentation and feature extraction based upon a variety of statistical, phenomenological, and model-based methods.
• Developed radar phenomenology models in support of a SAR image simulation code, including foliage scattering and other clutter modeling. Leadership and Business Development:

Champaign-Urbana, IL

• Conducted research on acoustic imaging through the lower atmosphere using interferometric processes.
• Designed, planned and conducted a series of data gathering field experiments.
• Determined the effects of atmospheric turbulence on system performance and developed an advanced algorithm to restore images distorted by turbulence.
• Taught a senior design laboratory course for two semesters, providing technical guidance and troubleshooting assistance to students

• Designed, executed, and then analyzed data from a large-scale multi-nation acoustic propagation experiment.
• Developed a real-time algorithm for the detection of blast noise in the presence of wind noise for military noise monitoring equipment and implemented the algorithms on a TI DSP.

Phd, Electrical Engineering

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering