Dan Simon, Associate Professor

I spent about 15 years in industry before coming to Cleveland State University in 1999. I received a PhD from Syracuse University, an MS from the University of Washington, and a BS from Arizona State University (all in Electrical Engineering). My work experience includes engineering contributions to the aerospace, automotive, agricultural, biomedical, process control, and software industries. I have lived in Seattle, Syracuse, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Akron. My research interests include control theory, signal processing, and computational intelligence. For more detailed information, see my curriculum vita and publications pages.

• Book: Optimal State Estimation: Kalman, H-infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches, John Wiley & Sons, 2006. I took everything I learned in the past 20 years about state estimation and wrote it in this book. I like step-by-step explanations, so that is how I wrote the book. I tried to make it clear, but also included recent research results, so it has a nice balance of established technology and cutting-edge research. It includes 89 worked examples, 176 written exercises, and 52 computer exercises. A solutions manual is available to course instructors from the publisher. Matlab code for the 32 computer examples can be downloaded from the book web site. The book is well-documented with 381 references, ranging from historical references from the 1920s, to papers published in 2006.

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Visit the following web pages to read about and download files related to my research.

• Kalman Filtering with State Constraints (Tutorial)
• Correlation Matrix Approximation Using a Majorization Algorithm
• Biogeography-Based Optimization
• The Optimal Interpolative Net
• Rule Base Reduction for Fuzzy Logic Systems
• Training Radial Basis Neural Networks with the Extended Kalman Filter
• Fuzzy Membership Function Optimization
• Kalman Filtering with State Constraints
• Reduced Order Kalman Filtering
• Kalman Filtering for Fuzzy Dynamic Systems
• Minimax Filtering with State Constraints
• Splines for Data Smoothing and Interpolation
  

I have a web page on my business site where I've written book reviews and tutorial overviews of various technologies. In the following web pages I express various views related to my profession and other matters.

• My Philosophy as a Professor
• Why I am a Christian
• Christianity and Control Theory
• Modern Science and the Bible (PowerPoint, 10.3 MB) (pdf, 5.8 MB) (MS Word, text only, 80 KB)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cleveland State University

Last Revised: May 5, 2008