B. Eugene Parker

Dr. Parker joined Barron Associates in 1990, where he has led many projects; these have included the detection, classification, and prognostication of faults in mechanical (e.g., helicopter gearboxes, aircraft structures, sensors, and actuators) and electrical (e.g., shipboard distribution) systems; signal conditioning for improved detection of torpedoes by surface ship passive sonar; active noise and vibration control in auxiliary power units; fault management, operating control, and reconfiguration in power-electronics-based shipboard power delivery systems; detection of faults in permanent magnet machines; development of new algorithms for trauma triage and injury severity assessment in field settings; formulation of new approaches for decision-making under uncertainty; development of algorithms for trauma triage and injury severity assessment in field settings; development of algorithms for retrospective medical quality-of-care assessment and health care institution ranking; development of algorithms for prediction of in-hospital adverse outcomes and total charges associated with nurse staffing variations; development of a low-cost fall monitoring technology for geriatric subjects; and development of a low-cost, high-performance physical activity monitoring technology

From 1985-1990, Dr. Parker worked for Sperry Marine Inc., where he was responsible for development and application of signal processing, neural network, and artificial intelligence technologies. His work included, in part, development of neural networks for vibration signature analysis, radar automatic target recognition, and electronic warfare support measures post-detection signal processing; development of Kalman filters to estimate submarine and surface ship inertial navigation system errors; development of expert systems for diagnostic maintenance and performance monitoring of the spinning-wheel gyroscope and marine ring-laser gyroscope inertial navigators; design and management of command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) data fusion simulation studies; and teaching a course on inertial navigation theory.

Dr. Parker has Ph.D. and M.E. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia, awarded in 1988 and 1981 respectively, and both a B.S.E. in Engineering Analysis and Design (Electrical Engineering) and a B.A. in Mathematics, awarded by the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 1978. His graduate thesis involved nonlinear system identification of the respiratory center of the brain. Dr. Parker is a member of the IEEE and Sigma Xi.