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Christopher F. Barnes is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Brigham Young University in 1989 and joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) as a research faculty before transferring to the School of ECE as an associate professor in 2002, while retaining adjunct status at GTRI as a principal research engineer. With 27 years of experience in both basic and applied research, he has published approximately 140 papers and holds a patent. He is recognized internationally for his expertise in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) analysis and SAR image formation processing. Dr. Barnes has taught SAR professional education at the graduate student level for twenty years and has invented radar imaging and image formation processing methods for three-dimensional coherently fused SAR imaging in remote sensing applications. His advanced radar signal processing methods have applications in sonar, medical imaging, and seismology. Additionally, he has provided subject matter expertise in the research and development oversight of ground-based and ship-based radar signal processing and radar software engineering programs. Dr. Barnes is an expert in hardware/software architectures, software engineering, and object-oriented software engineering tools, and his research interests include image and video driven data mining, data compression, and the development of methodologies for computer-assisted diagnosis and bioinformatics applications.
Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA
Teaching and conducting research in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a focus on synthetic aperture radar and data mining.
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.