ECE Department Chair & Professor (ECE, SE, BME)

• Primary Appointment Chair and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Education PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
• Additional Affiliations Center for Information and Systems Engineering
  Center for Space Physics
  Neurophotonics Center
  Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology
  Division of Systems Engineering
  Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Honors and Awards Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2018)
  Fellow, IEEE (2014)
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  IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging Technical Liaison Committee (2019-Present)
  Inaugural Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (2014 – Present)
  Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2012 – 2014)
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Steering Committee (2011 – 2013)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Intl. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Steering Committee (2009 – 2010)
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  Chair, IEEE Publications Services and Products Board Publishing Conduct Committee (2019-Present)
  IEEE Conference Publications Committee (2018-Present)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Biomedical Image and Signal Processing Technical Committee (2007-2013, 2018-Present)
  IEEE Publications Services and Products Board (2017-present)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Publication Board (2013-2017)
  IEEE Publications Services and Products Board Strategic Planning Committee (2015-present)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Nominations and Appointments Committee (2013-2014)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board (2012-2014)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee, Review Sub-Committee (2012-2013)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (2011-2013)
  IEEE Bio Signal and Image Processing Technical Committee (2007 – 2013)
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2003 – 2009)
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  ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)
• Classes Taught EC 401 Signals and Systems
  EC 416 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
  EC 505 Stochastic Processes
  EC 717 Image Reconstruction and Restoration
• Areas of Interest Statistical signal processing
  Inverse problems
  Biomedical signal and image processing
  Multidimensional signal and image processing
  Synthetic Aperture Radar