Dr. Jonathan Blakely, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Enginering

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Engineering Building
Room 263D
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.6168
Jonathan.Blakely@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Blakely is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). In 2003 he was appointed as a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal. From 2005 to 2025, he was a Research Physicist in the same organization, now called the US Army Aviation and Missile Center. Dr. Blakely has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and holds two patents. From 2012-2018, he served as an editorial board member for the journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering. For many years, his research explored the intersection of nonlinear dynamics and signal processing. More recently, he is focused on applying quantum information science to radar,  communication, and sensing technologies.

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, Duke University, 2003
  • M.A., Physics, Duke University, 1998
  • B.S., Physics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1996

Honors & Awards

  • 2013 Best Poster Award, 13th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference
  • 2010 Best Paper Award, 27th Army Science Conference
  • 2008 Dept. of the Army Research and Development Achievement Award
  • 2008 Best Paper Award, 26th Army Science Conference

Recent Publications

  • C. S. Pappu, A. N. Beal, J. N. Blakely, and N. J. Corron, “Analytic range-Doppler ambiguities for nonautonomous solvable chaos,” Chaos, Solitons, & Fractals, vol. 197, p. 116434, 2025.

  • J. N. Blakely, S. D. Pethel, and K. Jacobs, “Revealing spoofing of classical radar using quantum noise,” Physical Review Research, vol. 6, p. 013179, 2024.

  • N. F. Allard, J. Kielkopf, K. Myneni, and J. N. Blakely. "New theoretical study of potassium perturbed by He and comparison to laboratory spectra," Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 683, p. A188, 2024.

  • J. N. Blakely, M. S. Milosavljevic, N. J. Corron, S. D. Cohen, and C. Fendley, “Chaos in Optimal Communications: Theory and Experiment,” J. Vibration Testing & System Dynamics, vol. 8, pp. 309-316, 2024.

  • N. F. Allard, K. Myneni, J. N. Blakely, and G. Guillon. "Temperature and density dependence of line profiles of sodium perturbed by helium." Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 674 p. A171, 2023.

  • J. N. Blakely and S. D. Pethel, “Quantum Limits to Classically Spoofing an Electromagnetic Signal,” Physical Review Research, vol. 4, p. 023178, 2022.

  • J. N. Blakely, “Quantum Illumination with a Parametrically Amplified Idler,” Physics Letters A, vol. 400, p. 127319, 2021.

  • J. N. Blakely, “Bounds on Probability of Detection Error in Quantum-Enhanced Noise Radar,” Quantum Reports, vol. 2, pp. 400-413, 2020.

  • M. S. Milosavljevic, N. J. Corron, and J. N. Blakely “Optimal communications with infinite impulse response matched filters,” Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 138, p. 109822, 2020.

  • N. J. Corron, S. D. Cohen, A. N. Beal, and J. N. Blakely, “Exact analytic solution for a chaotic hybrid dynamical system and its electronic realization,” Chaos, vol. 60, p. 073112, 2020.