James McNames received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, in 1992. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1995 and 1999, respectively.
He has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Portland State University, Portland, OR since 1999, where he is currently serving as professor. He served as chair of the department from 2010-2020. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His primary research interest is statistical signal processing with applications to biomedical engineering. Recently his research has focused on the objective assessment and monitoring of movement disorders and technologies for quantifying human movement with wearable sensors.
He founded the Biomedical Signal Processing (BSP) Laboratory (bsp.pdx.edu) in fall 2000. The mission of the BSP Laboratory is to advance the art and science of extracting clinically significant information from physiologic signals. Members of the BSP Laboratory primarily focus on clinical projects in which the extracted information can help physicians or medical devices make better critical decisions and improve patient outcome.
- 1999 – IEEE
- 1999 – IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- 1999 – IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 1999 – Eta Kappa Nu
Research Interest and Expertise:
- Statistical Signal Processing
- State Space Tracking
- Estimation Theory
- Detection Theory
- Inertial Navigation
- Sensor Fusion
- Motion Capture
Courses Taught:
- EE 510 Computer Vision
- EE 522 Discrete-Time Signal Processing
- EE 525 Statistical Signal Processing I: Nonparametric Estimation
- EE 526 Statistical Signal Processing II: Linear and Adaptive Filters
- EE 528 State Space Tracking