David Mesecher, Principal Engineer, Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems

Dave began his career at Hazeltine Corporation, now part of BAE Systems, where he modeled adaptive antenna arrays using Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) to achieve wideband-jamming cancellation in the presence of multipath for spread-spectrum airborne military communications systems. Later, at AIL Systems, now EDO Systems, he modeled and developed signal processing techniques for passive geolocation systems using recursive mixed-measurement maximum-likelihood solutions. He also developed super-resolution processes to achieve blind-source separation with adaptive and direction-finding antenna arrays. Dave then worked on base-band receiver digital signal processing algorithms for CDMA wireless communications systems at IDC, including channel estimation, adaptive receiver filtering, carrier recovery, smart-antenna processing, and handset location. He is now a Principal Engineer in Future Architectures and Technologies at Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems, investigating wireless communications, antenna processing, and multi-platforms precision geolocation concepts supporting Network-Centric Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recognizance (ISR).

Dave is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the AIAA, is the Chairman of the Long Island Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society, and is Co-Chair of the IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology (LISAT) conference Technical Program Committee. He holds 26 US patents and several foreign patents for signal processing techniques in the areas of wireless communications, adaptive antenna arrays, and real-time location systems. He has a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MSEE from Polytechnic University, and an MBA from Adelphi University. Dave lives in Melville with his wife Margaret and their two boys Mitch and Keith.