Dr. Huang, Winner of NASA Government Invention of the Year Award

Center Director Al Diaz with Dr. Huang at Invention of the Year Ceremony. Photo Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA

The invention of the year ceremony was held at NASA Headquarters on Thursday, June 5th. This event recognized Dr. Norden E. Huang's mathematical method called Computer Implemented Empirical Mode Decomposition Method, also known as the Hilbert-Huang Transformation (HHT) Method. Dr. Huang is the Director of the Goddard Institute of Data Analysis and winner of the NASA Government Invention of the Year. Dr. Huang has also won NASA's Exceptional Space Act Award in 1999, for which he was cited, "as having invented one of the most important applied mathematical methods in NASA's history," for his invention of the HHT Method.

The HHT Method has many diverse applications. The Method can be applied in a variety of fields to study things such as: basic nonlinear mechanics, climate cycles, solar neutrinos variations, earthquake engineering, geophysical exploration, submarine design, structural damage detection, satellite data analysis, nonlinear wave evolution, turbulence flow, blood pressure variations and heart arrhythmia.

This Method is also used to analyze sea surface temperature data collected by NASA satellites and instruments. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses Huang's method to analyze images from some of its Earth orbiting spacecraft. It has proven successful in connecting environmental changes to El Nino phenomena with weather changes.

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