Summary
Alan Hunt is a Senior DSP Engineer with over four decades of hands-on experience designing and deploying signal processing algorithms across audio, speech, image, video, wireless communications, and radar systems. He led development of the first widely deployed speech recognition technology and created optical sensing methods used by the US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and multiple central banks, showing rare impact at national scale. Recently focused on GNSS acquisition and tracking for inertial navigation at VectorNav, he also built production-grade audio DSP and ML feature pipelines at Biamp. Alan pairs deep theoretical training (Ph.D. in Statistical Signal Processing) with practical embedded implementation across TI DSPs, HDL/RTL, and real-time C/C++ systems. Colleagues rely on him for turning hard research problems into robust, fielded solutions, often improving performance and efficiency enough to enable single-chip and high-throughput deployments. He is based in Allen, Texas, and brings a blend of veteran system-level thinking and continuous contributions to mission-critical products.
8 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Statistical Signal Processing, Ph.D Statistical Signal Processing at Southern Methodist University
Regents Diploma, Regents Diploma at New Hartford High School
Bachelor of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering at Clarkson University