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Dr. Mark Yeary is a Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma's Gallogly College of Engineering, holding the Hudson-Torchmark Presidential Professorship and the Gallogly Chair. He leads OU's Defense, Security, & Intelligence program and serves as CTO of the Oklahoma Aerospace & Defense Innovation Institute (OADII). With a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (1999), his research focuses on digital signal processing, radar systems, and hardware prototyping for weather and defense applications. He pioneered the Horus all-digital radar and contributed to the National Weather Radar Testbed.
Research highlights include the Atmospheric Imaging Radar program, the Horus radar's role in tornado detection, and collaborations with NASA, NSF, and DARPA. Awards include IEEE Fellow and Fellow of CIWRO. He advises OU's AISES chapter and chairs radar sessions at AMS Annual Meetings. Current projects involve multi-beam weather surveillance and phased array advancements.
- Education: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University (1999)
- Affiliations: Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC), MIT Lincoln Laboratory (sabbatical 2012-2013), Raytheon
Research Interests: Phased array radar design, meteorological data analysis, radar hardware prototyping, and disaster detection systems. His work bridges academic innovation with operational weather radar improvements.
- Awards: George Lynn Cross Research Professorship (2022), Hudson-Torchment Presidential Professor (2011)
- Grants: ONR, NASA, NSF, NOAA, DARPA
Lab/Teams: ARRC (largest university-based radar center), OADII, and the Mobile C-band Polarimetric Atmospheric Imaging Radar (PAIR) initiative.
