Herman J. Blinchikoff

Herman J. Blinchikoff (SM’69) was born in Baltimore, MD on August 3, 1934. In 1952, he was awarded a scholarship in the first Westinghouse—Johns Hopkins Work Study Program. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD in 1959, 1963, and 1969, respectively. From 1952 to 1963 he was employed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, where he was primarily engaged in network design with emphasis on electronic filter design and development. From 1963 through 1968, he did research on radar countermeasure systems at the Carlyle Barton Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University. In 1969 he returned to Westinghouse where he did research and development in the area of filter theory, for applications in radar and communication systems. In 1979 he became a member of the Radar Systems Engineering group at Westinghouse, and from 1983 to 1993 he was a system analyst on the ASR-9 and ARSR-4 surveillance radar programs. He retired from Westinghouse in 1993. He has taught in-house courses on filter theory since 1970, and radar pulse compression signals since 1982. Dr. Blinchikoff has written numerous papers on filter theory and related subjects, and is the co-author of Filtering in the Time and Frequency Domains. He is a member of Sigma Xi and a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland.