Contact Information:
Dr. Li Tan
Senior Professor
Electronics Department
DeVry University
250 North Arcadia Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030
Tel: (404) 292-7900 Ext. 2140
Fax: (404) 292-2248
E-Mail: ltan@faculty.atl.devry.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, May 1992, University of New Mexico
M.S., Electrical Engineering, May 1989, University of New Mexico
M.S., Engineering Mechanics, May 1987, University of New Mexico
B.S.E.E, July 1984, Southeast University

Professional Society:

Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE communications Society.
Listed in "Who Is Who in America, 2001",
              "Who Is Who in the World, 2002",
              "Who Is Who in Science and Engineering, 2003".

Teaching and Research Interests:
Signal Processing and Communications

Resources:

ftp://ftp.atl.devry.edu/faculty/ltan

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

"Lossless Waveform Compression," in Chapter 6, "Measurement System Architecture," Industrial Electronics Handbook, CRC press, 1997 (J. D. Irwin, ed).

Digital Signal Processing: Fundamentals and Applications, in preparation. Delmar Publisher.

PATENTS:

System and Method for Modeling Discrete Data Sequence.  US Patent Number: 5,721,543, Feb. 1998.  Application of the patent is in the field of speech/audio coding.

Active Noise Controller Through Third-Order Adaptive Volterra Filter.  Patent pending.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1.  L. Tan and J. Jiang, "Adaptive Volterra filters for active control of nonlinear noise processes,"   IEEE Transactions on signal processing, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1667-1676, August 2001.

2.  L. Tan and J. Jiang, "An Adaptive Technique for Modeling Second-Order Volterra Systems with Sparse Kernels," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 1610-1615, December 1998.

3.  L. Tan and J. Jiang, "Filtered-X Second-Order Volterra Adaptive Algorithms," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 671-672, April 1997.

4.  L. Tan and J. Jiang, "System Modeling Using A Second-Order Volterra Delay Filter," 39th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1276-1279, August 1996.

5.  L. Tan and J. Jiang, "Adaptive Second-Order Volterra Delay Filter," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No.9, pp. 807-809, April 1996.

6.  L. Tan and M. L. Wang , "Stochastic Techniques for Analyzing Shallow-buried Reinforced Concrete Box-type Structure," Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 14,  pp. 279-287, 1995.

7.  L. Tan, "Theory and Techniques for lossless Waveform Data Compression," Ph.D. Dissertation   Abstracts, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 56-58, October 1993.

8.  L. Tan, S. D. Stearn, and N. Magotra, "Lossless Compression of Waveform Data for Efficient Transmission and Storage," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 645-654, May 1993.

9.  N. Magotra, L. Tan and J. Jiang, "An Integrated Real Time Seismic Signal Processor," 26th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. 304-308, California, October 1992.

10.  L. Tan, S. D. Stearns, and N. Magotra, "A Bi-Level Coding Technique for Compressing Broadband Residue Sequences," Digital Signal Processing Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 146-156, July 1992.

11.  L. Tan, S. D. Stearns, and N. Magotra, "A Technique for Lossless Compression of Seismic Data," presented in International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Vol. 1, pp. 681-683,  May 1992.

12.  L. Tan, Theory and Techniques for lossless Waveform Data Compression.   Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 1992. 

13.  M. Wang, J. Ross, L. Tan and J. Macy, "Fracture Study of Quasi-Brittle Material Using a Fast-Scanning Electron Microscopy," Journal of Experimental Techniques, pp. 29-36, January/February 1992.

14.  N. Magotra, J. Jiang and L. Tan, "Seismic Phase Detection and Discrimination Using Adaptive Filter Coefficients," 25th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. 659-662, California, November 1991.

15.  L. Tan and S. Karni, "A New Technique for Modeling Sparse Nonlinear Systems with Odd Powers," 11th Annual Idea in Science and Electronics Exposition and Symposium, pp. 171-178, Albuquerque,   New Mexico, May 1989.

16.  L. Tan, New Techniques for Modeling Sparse Nonlinear Systems.   M.S. Thesis,  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,  New Mexico, May 1989.

17.  L. Tan and M. Wang, "Structural System Identification Using an Adaptive Transversal Filter," SEM Spring Conference, pp. 281-288, Boston, MA, May 1989

SOFTWARE:

1.  L. Tan (lead software engineer), "Who shot Johnny Rock?", PC Platform, Copyright 1993, American Laser Games, Inc., manufactured and distributed by IBM.

2.  L. Tan (lead software engineer), "Mad Dog II - the Lost Gold", PC Platform, Copyright 1994, American Laser Games, Inc. manufactured and distributed by IBM.

3.  L. Tan (lead software engineer) "Crime Patrol", Sega CD Platform, Licensed by SEGA Enterprises, LTD, 1994.