Spring 2027

Signal Synthesis and Recovery Techniques

Covers signal representation, synthesis under peak/energy/bandwidth constraints, and alternating projections for inverse problems like tomography and phase retrieval.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · John Gubner

The class was rated highly difficult and required significant effort. Gubner’s theoretical approach could be off-putting to engineers who preferred practical applications over abstract math.

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ECE 735

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JOHN GUBNER is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

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Past student reviews · John Gubner

John Gubner taught a theoretical, math-heavy course that reviewers found excellent but challenging. Students who enjoyed mathematics and hard work appreciated the diverse and interesting material.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2017: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2018: 3.50 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2020: 3.50 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · John Gubner

The class was rated highly difficult and required significant effort. Gubner’s theoretical approach could be off-putting to engineers who preferred practical applications over abstract math.

Past student reviews · John Gubner

One student found the professor useless, reflecting a strong negative opinion that contrasted with other reviewers who praised his teaching style.

Topics

  • Signal representation
  • Constrained signal synthesis
  • Alternating projections and inverse problems

Skills

  • Synthesize signals under specific physical and bandwidth constraints.
  • Apply alternating projections onto convex sets to solve inverse problems in signal and image recovery.

Grades

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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