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

• Primary Appointment Chair and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Education PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
• Additional Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering
  Division of Systems Engineering
  Center for Information and Systems Engineering
  Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology
  Center for Space Physics
  Neurophotonics Center
• Honors and Awards Fellow: IEEE, AIMBE, BMES
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  IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging Technical Liaison Committee (2019 – Present)
  Inaugural Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (2014 – 2017)
  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 – 2020)
  IEEE Conference Publications Committee (2018 – 2019)
  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 Computational Imaging
  Statistical signal processing
  Inverse problems
  Biomedical signal and image processing
  Synthetic Aperture Radar