Proffesor Hugh
Griffiths holds
the THALES/Royal Academy Chair of RF Sensors in the Department of Electronic
and Electrical Engineering at University College London, England. From
2006–2008 he was Principal of the Defense Academy College of Management and
Technology. He received the MA degree in Physics from Oxford University in
1975, then spent three years working in industry, before joining University
College London, where he received the PhD degree in 1986 and the DSc(Eng)
degree in 2000, and served as Head of Department from 2001–2006.
His research interests include radar systems and signal processing
(particularly bistatic radar and synthetic aperture radar), and antenna
measurement techniques. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation journal.
He has published over five hundred papers and technical articles in the fields
of radar, antennas and sonar. He has received several awards and prizes,
including the IEEE Picard Medal (2017), the IEEE AES Mimno Award (2015), the
IET A.F. Harvey Prize (2012) and the IEEE AES Nathanson Award (1996). He has
also received the Brabazon Premium of the IERE and the Mountbatten and Maxwell
Premium Awards of the IEE. He is a Fellow of the IET (previously IEE), Fellow
of the IEEE, and in 1997 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of
Engineering.
He served as President of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society for
2012/2013, and he is an IEEE AES Distinguished Lecturer. He has been a member
of the IEEE AES Radar Systems Panel since 1989, serving as Chair from 2007–2009,
and he chaired the Working Group which revised the IEEE Radar Definitions
Standard P686 and reaffirmed the Radar Letter Band Standard. Most recently,
with Chris Baker and Dave Adamy, he led the revision of the classic Stimson’s Introduction to Airborne Radar book.
