Dr. Jonathan M. Hill
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. in ECE, Northeastern University, June 1988
M.S. in ECE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Feb. 1997
Ph.D. in ECE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Oct 2001

e-mail: jmhill@hartford.edu
Telephone: (860) 768-5086
Office: United Technologies Building, Room 237

Research Interests:
Embedded Microprocessor Applications
Field Programmable gate array and reconfigurable  
hardware applications
Design of Global Positioning System (GPS) Receivers
The Linux Operating System

Principle Publications of Last Five Years:
J. M. Hill, "Tracking Loop Dynamics and Synchronus AGC for GPS," Institute of
Navigation 2004 Technical Meeting, San Diego CA, January 26-28, 2004

J. M. Hill, "Navigation Signal Processing with FPGA's," Institute of Navigation 2004
Technical Meeting, San Diego CA, January 26-28, 2004

J. M. Hill, "The Principle of a Snapshot Navigation Solution Based Doppler Shift,"
review award sponsored student paper, Institute of Navigation, Slat Lake City,
Sept. 2001

I. F. Progri, J. M. Hill, and W.R. Michalson "Proposed Pseudolite Signal
Specification for Indoor Applications," Institute of Navigation Annual Meeting in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2001 

J. M. Hill and W. R. Michalson, "Real Time Verification of Bit-Cell Alignment for C/A
Code Only Receivers," Institute of Navigation Annual Meeting in
New Mexico, 2001
 
J. M. Hill, I. F. Progri, and W R. Michalson "Techniques for Reducing the Near-Far
Problem in Indoor Geolocation Systems," Proceedings of the Institute of
Navigation National Technical Meeting, Jan. 2001
 
J. M. Hill and W. R. Michalson, "Design of a Stable Discrete Time Costas Loop,"
Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting, Jan. 2001

Other Related Experience:
9/1996 - 9/2001 Instructor of Electrical Engineering,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
9/1993 - 9/1996 Teaching assistant / Research Assistant,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
6/1988 - 8/1992 Design Engineer, Digital Equipment Corp.,
Littleton MA
 

Personal Homepage:
http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/jmhill/