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Hugh Duncan Griffiths

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Hugh Duncan Griffiths
Born
NationalityBritish
Alma materKeble College, Oxford University
AwardsIEEE AES Nathanson Award (1996)

IET A F Harvey Prize (2012) IEEE Picard Medal (2017)

IET Achievement Medal (2018)

Hugh Duncan Griffiths, OBE, FRS, FREng is a British electronic engineer. He is known for his contributions in radar research, especially in bistatic radar and passive radar.

Career and research

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He has published over 550 research papers in journals and conference proceedings.[1] Books include Modern Antennas (Springer, 2005), Advances in Bistatic Radar (Scitech, 2007), Radar Automatic Target Recognition and Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (IET, 2013), An Introduction to Passive Radar (Artech House, 2017 – also published in Chinese, second edition 2022).

  • Since 1982 he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation journal.[2]
  • In 2017 he was appointed Chair of the Defence Science Expert Committee (DSEC) in the UK Ministry of Defence. He is a member of the Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC).[3]

Awards and honours

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  • 1996 (1996): IEEE AES Nathanson Award ‘for advancement of radar, remote sensing, antenna technology, and radar education’[4]
  • 2017 (2017): IEEE Picard Medal ‘for technology leadership and exceptional contributions to multistatic radar’[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Hugh Griffiths publications". Google Scholar. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ^ "IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation". Digital Library. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Defence Science Expert Committee". Gov.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  4. ^ "IEEE AES Nathanson Award". Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Picard Medal". Retrieved 1 June 2022.