Dr. Lanterman grew up in St. Louis, MO and attended Washington University,where he finished a triple major consisting of a B.A. in music, B.S. in computer science, and a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1993. He stayed on for graduate school, receiving an M.S. (1995) and D.Sc. (1998) in electrical engineering. His graduate work focused on target recognition for infrared imagery as part of the U.S. Army Center for Imaging Science. After graduation, he joined the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he managed a large project on covert radar systems which exploit "illuminators of opportunity" such as commercial television and FM radio signals. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in the fall of 2001.
He has worn many hats in the music industry, including those of concert promoter, recording engineer, and soundman. While in St. Louis, he worked as a writer, photographer, typesetter, and eventually managing editor for a local music publication. He plays keyboard and guitar.
- D.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1995
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1993
- B.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 1993
Professor Lanterman's research includes statistical signal processing, particularly for radar systems, target tracking, target recognition, and image reconstruction, as well as applications of field-programmable analog arrays.
Professor Lanterman's teaching interests focus on undergraduate education in the areas of analog electronics, digital signal processing, and signal & system theory, with a particular emphasis on musical applications and real-world practical circuits instead of textbook problems. He also advises the Vertically Integrated Projects team “Retrofuturistic Hardware: Music, Gaming, and Computing.”
- A. Lanterman, Stochastic Complexity of Rayleigh and Rician Data with Normalized Maximum Likelihood, Stats 9(1), 2025
- A. Lanterman, Convergence of Limiting Cases of Continuous‑Time, Discrete‑Space Jump Processes to Diffusion Processes for Bayesian Inference, Mathematics 13(7), 1084, 2025
- A. Lanterman, Maximum Penalized‑Likelihood Structured Covariance Estimation for Imaging Extended Objects, Stats 7(4), 2024
- A.D. Lanterman & J.O. Hasler, Blackmer’s VCA Cell Implemented using Subthreshold MOSFETs, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 72(11), 2024
- M.J. Kagie & A.D. Lanterman, Maximum‑Likelihood Time‑of‑Arrival Estimation for Saturated Optical Transient Signals, JOSA A41(2), 2024