Todd Moon
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
Contact Information
Office Location: EL 154Phone: 435-797-2970
Email: todd.moon@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Biography
Dr. Moon received his bachelors degree summa cum laude in 1988 in electrical engineering and mathematics from Brigham Young University. He also received an MS in 1988 from BYU. His PhD is from the University of Utah in Electrical Engineering, 1991. He has been at Utah State University since 1991, where he is now professor and head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Teaching Interests
Signal Processing Detection and Estimation Error Correction Coding Information Theory Digital Communications Controls
Research Interests
Digital Communications Error Correction Coding Signal Processing
Awards
Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 2007
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Senior Member, 2001
IEEE
Outstanding Advisor of the Year, 2000
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Outstanding Researcher of the Year, 1999
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America , 1999
Outstanding Advisor of the Year, 1998
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award, 1997
ASEE Rocky Mountain Section
Outstanding Advisor of the Year, 1997
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 1996
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Teacher of the Year, 1996
College of Engineering
Teacher of the Year Finalist , 1996
USU Robbins Award
NASA JPL Summer Faculty Fellow, 1995
NASA
Publications | Books
- Moon, T.K, (2019). Error Control Coding: Mathematical Methods and Algorithms. Wiley
- Amir-Homayoom, N., Moon, T.K, Signal Processing: A Concise Guide. McGraw Hill
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2013). Minimum Symbol Error Rate Pulse Design with Robustness to Timing Jitter: Communication Systems: New Research. Nova Science Publishers
- Moon, T.K, (2005). Error Correction Coding: Mathematical Methods and Algorithsm. Wiley
- Moon, T.K, Stirling, W.C, (2000). Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing. Prentice-Hall
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Beck, K., Barfuss, S.L, Sharp, Z., Johnson, M.C, Moon, T.K, Dutta, S., (2022). The effect of high-fidelity flow models on electromagnetic flowmeter analysis . Journal of American Water Works Association Water Science, 4:2, 1-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1279
- Beck, K., Barfuss, S.L, Sharp, Z., Moon, T.K, (2021). An alternative analysis method for evaluating electromagnetic flowmeter performance . Journal of American Water Works Association Water Science, 3:5, 1-12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1242
- Beck, K., Barfuss, S.L, Moon, T.K, Sharp, Z., (2021). The superior accuracy of the arc electrode magnetic flowmeter: a numerical study. Journal of American Water Works Association Water Science, 3:2, 1-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1220
- Wan, N., Hancock, A., Moon, T.K, Gillam, R., (2018). A functional near infrared spectroscopic investigation of speech production during reading. Human Brain Mapping39, 1428-1437. doi: doi: 10.1002/hbm.23932
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Contravariant Adaptation on the Manifold of Causal, FIR, Invertible Multivariable Matrix Systems . IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Contravariant Adaptation on the Manifold of Invertible Matrix Transfer Functions. IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2015). Continuum-State Hidden Markov Models with Dirichlet State Distributions. Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 12, 800 - 824. doi: 10.2514/1.I010260
- Berrett, C., Williams, G.P, Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2014). A Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Temperature-Emissivity Separation of Long-wave Hyperspectral Images. Technometrics, 56:2, 200 - 211. doi: 10.1080/00401706.2013.869262
- Moon, T.K, (2014). The Volition of Intelligence. The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 91, 107 - 125.
- Gunther, J.H, Fish, C., Swenson, C.M, Moon, T.K, (2014). Reliable space-to-Earth communication as a secondary service in the 460-470 MHz band. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 33:2, 93 - 106. doi: 10.1002/sat.1072
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Broadus, C., Hou, W., Nelson, N., (2014). Turbo Processing for Speech Recognition. IEEE Transactions of Cybernectis, 44:1, 83 - 91. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2013.2247593
- Stites, M., Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, Williams, G., (2013). Using Physically-Modeled Synthetic Data to Assess Hyperspectral Unmixing Approaches. Remote Sensing, 5:4, 1974 - 1997. doi: 10.3390/rs5041974
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2012). Multiple-Access via Turbo Joint Equalization. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 60:10, 3001-3010. doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.070912.110191
- Grant, C.S, Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Stites, M.R, Williams, G.P, (2012). Detection of Amorphously Shaped Objects Using Spatial Information Detection Enhancement (SIDE). IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5:2, 478 - 487. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2186284
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2012). Entropy Minimization for Solving Sudoku. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 60:1, 508 - 513. doi: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2169253
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2011). Transform-Based Computation of the Distribution of a Linear Combination of Random Variables Over Arbitrary Finite Fields. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 18:12, 737 - 740 . doi: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2172792
- Bastian, M.R, Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2011). A Simplified Natural Gradient Learning Algorithm. Advances in Artificial Neural Systems, 2011, 1 - 9. doi: 10.1155/2011/407497
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2011). Probability of even parity of soft bits. IET Signal Processing, 5:6, 603 - 611 . doi: 10.1049/iet-spr.2010.0194
- Marchant, C.C, Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2010). An Iterative Least Square Approach to Elastic-Lidar Retrievals for Well-Characterized Aerosols. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48:5, 2430 - 2444 . doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2038903
- Flake, J., Moon, T.K, McKee, M., Gunther, J.H, (2010). Application of the relevance vector machine to canal flow prediction in the Sevier River Basin. Agricultural Water Management , 97:2, 208 - 214. doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.09.010
- Contreras, A.A, Moon, T.K, Dasu, A., Gunther, J.H, (2010). Micronetworking: reliable communication on 3D integrated circuits. Electronics Letters, 46:4, 291 - 293 . doi: 10.1049/el.2010.2193
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2009). Minimum Bayes Risk Adaptive Linear Equalizers. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57:2, 4788 - 4799 . doi: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2026105
- Moon, T.K, Crockett, J.S, Gunther, J.H, Chauhan, O.S, (2009). Iterative Decoding Using Eigenmessages. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 57:12, 3618 - 3628 . doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.12.050230
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2009). Minimum Symbol Error Rate Carrier Phase Recovery of QPSK. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57:8, 3101 - 3107 . doi: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2020746
- Gunther, J.H, Moon, T.K, (2009). Burst Mode Synchronization of QPSK on AWGN Channels Using Kurtosis. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 57:8, 2453 - 2462 . doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.08.070338
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, Kupin, J.J, (2009). Sinkhorn Solves Sudoku. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 55:4, 1741 - 1746 . doi: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2013004
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2008). Partial Specification Frequency-Domain Least-Squares Filter Design and System Identification. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 15, 53 - 56. doi: 10.1109/LSP.2007.911139
- Gunther, J.H, Keller, D., Moon, T.K, (2007). A Generalized BCJR Algorithm and Its Use in Iterative Blind Channel Identification. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14:10, 661 - 664 . doi: 10.1109/LSP.2007.898316
- Gunther, J.H, Ankapura, M., Moon, T.K, (2005). A Generalized LDPC Decoder for Blind Turbo Equalization. , 53:10, 3847 - 3856 . doi: 10.1109/TSP.2005.855396
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2005). On the Equivalence of Two Welch–Berlekamp Key Equations and Their Error Evaluators. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 51:1, 399 - 401 . doi: 10.1109/TIT.2004.839520
- Moon, T.K, (2004). On General Linear Block Code Decoding Using the Sum-Product Iterative Decoder. IEEE Communication Letters, 8:6, 383 - 385. doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2004.828183
- Moon, T.K, Gunther, J.H, (2002). Contravariant adaptation on structured matrix spaces. Signal Processing, 82:10, 1389 – 1410. doi: 10.1016/S0165-1684(02)00281-5
- Moon, T.K, (2002). Maximum-likelihood binary shift-register synthesis from noisy observations. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 48:7, 2096 - 2104. doi: 10.1109/TIT.2002.1013152
- Lo, C., Moon, T.K, (2002). Bandwidth efficient digital communication with wavelet approximations. Journal of Communications and Networks, 4:2, 97 - 101. doi: 10.1109/JCN.2002.6596900
- Moon, T.K, (2000). Exact reconstruction of samples of signal from samples of its integral. Electronic Letters, 36:12, 1079 - 1081. doi: 10.1049/el:20000772
- Moon, T.K, Veeramachaneni, S., (1999). Linear feedback shift registers as vector quantization codebooks. Electronic Letters, 35:22, 1919 - 1920. doi: 10.1049/el:19991335
- Moon, T.K, Frost, R.L, Stirling, W.C, (1996). An epistemic utility approach to coordination in the Prisoner's Dilemma. Biosystems, 37:1-2, 167 - 176. doi: 10.1016/0303-2647(95)01552-3
- Moon, T.K, (1996). The expectation-maximization algorithm. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 13:6, 47 - 60. doi: 10.1109/79.543975
- Moon, T.K, (1996). Similarity methods in signal processing. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 44:4, 827 - 833. doi: 10.1109/78.492536
- Simon, M.K, Shihabi, M.M, Moon, T.K, (1995). Optimum Detection of Tones Transmitted by a Spacecraft. TDA Progress Report, 42-123, 69 - 98.
- Moon, T.K, Xie, Z., Rushforth, C.K, Short, R.T, (1994). Parameter Estimation in a Multi-User Communication System. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 42:8, 2553 - 2560. doi: 10.1109/26.310615
- Moon, T.K, Budge, S.E, (1994). Classification using set-valued Kalman filtering and Levi's decision theory. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 24:2, 313 - 319. doi: 10.1109/21.281429
- Moon, T.K, Budge, S.E, Stirling, W.C, Thompson, J., (1994). Epistemic decision theory applied to multiple target tracking. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 24:2, 234 - 245. doi: 10.1109/21.281423
- Xie, Z., Rushforth, C.K, Short, R.T, Moon, T.K, (1993). Joint signal detection and parameter estimation in multiuser communications. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 41:8, 1208 - 1216. doi: 10.1109/26.231964
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Publications | Technical Reports
Other Reports
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Publications | Other
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