Donald P. Butler
Professor
Dr. Butler received his B.A.Sc. in engineering science: physics option from the University of Toronto (1980) and his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) from the University of Rochester in Electrical Engineering. He performed his graduate research at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics investigating the nonequilibrium behavior of superconductor thin films in response to picosecond electrical and optical excitations. He continued his graduate research as a Research Associate in 1986. In 1987, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University as an Assistant Professor. In 1993, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. At SMU, he has been involved in research projects involving the optical control of superconductive microwave transmission line filters, the investigation of high temperature superconductors for hybrid superconductor-semiconductor electronics, the application of high temperature superconductors to microwave mixing and parametric conversion, the characterization of GaAs MMICs at cryogenic temperatures, and uncooled infrared detectors. His current research is focused on uncooled infrared detection, microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), pulsed laser deposition and ferroelectric thin films. He has been working on semiconducting YBaCuO uncooled infrared detection for the past four years. He currently holds two patents, has one patent pending and published 13 papers in the IR detection field. This work has been supported in part by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Advanced Technology Program, the National Science Foundation, E-Systems, Hewlett-Packard, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. Dr. Butler has published more than 60 journal articles and conference presentations. Dr. Butler is a senior member of the IEEE and member of the American Physical Society. He is active in the IEEE. For the past 10 years he has served in various society chapter and section offices for the IEEE Dallas section. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. He has received a number of awards, including th e 97 and 98 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award.
Jerome K. Butler
University Distinguished Professor
Dr. Butler received the B.S.E.E. degree from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, in 1960, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, in 1962 and 1965, respectively. From 1960 to 1965 he was a Research Assistant and held a CRES Fellowship at the Center for Research in Engineering Sciences, University of Kansas. He conducted research concerned with electromagnetic wave propagation and the optimization and synthesis techniques of antenna arrays. In 1965, he joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Southern Methodist University where he is now a University Distinguished Professor and a past Chair of Electrical Engineering. His primary research areas are solid state injection lasers, radiation and detection studies of lasers, communication and fiber optic systems, integrated optics and the application of integrated optical circuits, and quantum electronics. In 1977 he was given the Southern Methodist University Sigma Xi Research Award. In the summers from 1969 to 1992, he was a Staff Scientist, Sarnoff Corporation (formerly RCA Laboratories), Princeton, NJ. He has held consulting appointments with the Central Research Laboratory of Texas Instruments, Inc., the Geotechnical Corporation of Teledyne, Inc., Earl Cullum Associates of Dallas, Texas and the University of California Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Dr. Butler was elected a Fellow of IEEE for "contributions to semiconductor lasers and the theory of radiation characteristics of optical waveguides." He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.
Zeynep Çelik-Butler
Professor
Dr. Çelik-Butler received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and physics from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1982. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1984 and 1987, respectively, from the University of Rochester. She was an IBM Predoctoral Fellow from 1983 to 1984, and an Eastman Kodak Predoctoral Fellow from 1985 to 1987. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in 1987 as an Assistant Professor; was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1993. Dr. Çelik-Butler was the holder of J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professorship from 1990 to 1993. She served in various technical committees including 1988, 1989 IEDM's and 1989 - 1992 Annual Symposia on Electronic Materials, Processing and Characterization. She has received several awards including the IEEE-Dallas Section Electron Devices Society Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Electrical Engineering Graduate Faculty Award, and Southern Methodist University Sigma Xi Research Award. Her research interests include infrared detectors, noise in semiconductor and superconductor devices, and high Tc-superconductivity. She has over 65 journal and conference publications in these fields.
Thomas M. Chen
Associate Professor
Thomas M. Chen received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. Dr. Chen joined the faculty as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in 1997. From 1989 to 1997, he was involved in research on ATM network performance monitoring and control at GTE Laboratories, Inc. in Waltham, MA., where he was a senior member of the technical staff. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He was the founding editor of the IEEE Communication Society's first electronic journal, IEEE Communication Surveys, and is a technical editor for IEEE Network Magazine and IEEE Communications Magazine. He has published several papers and made several contributions to national T1S1 standards and the ATM Forum. He was the recipient of the IEEE Fred W. Ellersick best paper award in 1996. He is the co-author of the monograph, ATM Switching Systems (Artech House, 1995) and contributed a chapter to an upcoming ATM Handbook (McGraw-Hill). From 1993 to 1997, he taught part-time graduate courses on computer networks at Northeastern University in Boston and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Carlos E. Davila
Associate Professor
Carlos Davila received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 and 1983, respectively. In 1988, he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was associated with the Biomedical Engineering Program. Since 1988, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Davila's research interests are in biomedical and statistical signal processing. His projects include the development of a device for non-invasively measuring visual acuity in infants, the improvement of ultrasonic imaging via adaptive filtering, and speech enhancement.
Scott C. Douglas
Associate Professor
Dr. Douglas received the B.S. (with distinction), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1988, 1989, and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1998, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Since August 1998, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University as an Associate Professor. His research activities include adaptive filtering, active noise control, blind deconvolution and source separation, and VLSI implementations of digital signal processing systems.
Dr. Douglas received the Hughes Masters Fellowship Award in 1988 and the NSF Graduate Fellowship Award in 1989. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 1995. He is the author or co-author of four book chapters and more than 70 articles in journals and conference proceedings; he also served as a section editor for The DSP Handbook (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1998). He is currently an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and is a member of both the Neural Networks for Signal Processing Technical Committee and the Education Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He served on the Technical Program Committees of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, WA, and the 1998 IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Bryce Canyon, UT. He is the Proceedings Co-Chair of the 1999 Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing and is the Technical Program Chair of ACTIVE'99. He is on the organizing committee of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. He has one patent pending. He is a frequent consultant to industry in the areas of signal processing and adaptive filtering and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
James George Dunham
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Dunham received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1973, 1973 and 1978, respectively. He has been an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University since 1984. Dr. Dunham's research interests include the theory and practice of data security: information theory; and communications and telecommunications theory.
Gary A. Evans
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Evans received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1970, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1971 and 1975. After post-doctoral work at Caltech, he was employed by R&D Associates, Marina Del Rey, CA, and was a visiting assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He has worked at the Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; TRW, Redondo Beach, CA; and RCA Laboratories (now the Sarnoff Corporation), Princeton, NJ. In 1992 he joined Southern Methodist University as a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. Since 1979 he has primarily worked on the design, growth, and fabrication of conventional cleaved facet and grating surface emitting semiconductor lasers. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to the development, fabrication, and understanding of semiconductor lasers", has over 180 publications, and is a co-editor of the Academic Press book Surface Emitting Semiconductor Lasers and Arrays. Dr. Evans is a licensed professional engineer, has served on numerous national and international committees, is a past Chairman of the Princeton Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Section, a past Chairman of the Santa Monica Bay Section of the IEEE, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (1989-1995). He was the finance chairman for the 1994 IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conference and a Technical Program Vice Chair for the International Communication Conference in 1996. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
Jerry D. Gibson
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair
Jerry D. Gibson is Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University. He received the BSEE from the University of Texas-Austin in 1969, and the MSEE and Ph. D. degrees from SMU in 1971 and 1973, respectively. Dr. Gibson is co-author of Introduction to Nonparametric Detection with Applications (Academic Press, 1975, IEEE Press, 1995), the author of Principles of Digital and Analog Communications (Prentice-Hall, second ed., 1993), and co-author of Digital Compression for Multimedia (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998). He was Associate Editor for Speech Processing for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1981-85 and Associate Editor for Communications for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1988-91. He served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1996. Dr. Gibson is Editor-in-Chief of The Mobile Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 1995) and Editor-in-Chief of The Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 1996). In 1990, Dr. Gibson received The Fredrick Emmons Terman Award from ASEE, and in 1992, was elected Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive prediction and speech waveform coding." He was co-recipient of the 1993 IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Paper Award for the Speech Processing area. His research interests include data, speech, image, and video compression, multimedia over networks, wireless communications, information theory, and digital signal processing.
William Milton Gosney, Jr.
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Electrical Engineering
William Milton Gosney earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering (with high honors) from North Carolina State University in 1964. He completed his M.S. degree in 1966 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1970 at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Gosney spent 17 years in the semiconductor industry before joining the Electrical Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University in 1986. Dr. Gosney has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the State of Texas Advanced Technology Program, and the Communities Foundation of Texas for his research in the areas of VLSI circuits, biomedical applications of VLSI circuits, scanning tunneling microscopy, radio electronics, and semiconductor memories, devices, and materials. Dr. Gosney holds 13 patents in the field of semiconductor devices, processes, and circuits.
Someshwar C. Gupta
Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering
Dr. Gupta received the B.A. (Honors) and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Punjab University, India, in 1951 and 1953, respectively, the B.S. (Honors) degree in electrical engineering from Glasgow University, Scotland, in 1957, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkley, in 1962. He was 4.0 student throughout his career and he won silver and gold medals as a student for his academic performance. Dr. Gupta is the author of Transform and State Variable Methods in Linear Systems (Wiley) and co-author of Fundamentals of Automatic Control (Wiley) and Circuit Analysis with Emphasis on Computer Usage (Intext). Dr. Gupta has supervised over 50 Ph.D. dissertations and published over 100 technical papers mostly in IEEE Transactions. Most of his work has been supported by NSF, NASA, US Airforce and leading industrial companies. Dr. Gupta was the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at SMU from 1982 to 1989. Presently he is Cecil H. Green professor and is very active in the area of Wireless Communications. Most of this work is being supported by Ericsson and Raytheon. He has also been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of System Sciences, acting as an Associate Editor.
Alireza Khotanzad
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Alireza Khotanzad received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1978, 1980 and 1983, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in 1984, where he currently is a Professor.
Dr. Khotanzad's research interests include artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, intelligent systems, and image processing. He has published several papers on the following topics: artificial neural network systems for power system load forecasting, weather forecasting and prediction of macroeconomics series, random field models for color and gray-level texture analysis, 2-D and 3-D object and character recognition, deformable matching of 3-D medical images, stereopsis with neural networks, moment-based image analysis, and automatic inspection of wire bonding. His research has been funded by the Electric Power Research Institute, the State of Texas, Texas Instruments, Inc., and Texas Utilities Electric Co.
He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intellence and for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks from 1995 to 1997. He was the Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Southwest Conference in Image Analysis and Interpretation, Dallas, Texas, in 1994. He also served as the Chair of the IEEE Dallas Section in 1995-1996. Dr. Khotanzad received the Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Graduate Professor Award in 1993, 1996 and 2000. He also was the recipient of the Southern Methodist University Sigma Xi Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 1995. He was elected as the 1998 Engineer of the Year by the IEEE Dallas Section. Hi received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.
C. S. Lee
Associate Professor
Dr. Lee received his B.A. degree in physics from Rice University and M.S. degree in physics from Texas A&M University. He completed M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983 and 1986. From 1986 to 1989, he was employed by Space and Communications Group, Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segued, CA. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department, Southern Methodist University in 1989, where he is now Associate Professor. He has been a U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research participant at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey since 1990. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. Dr. Lee's research has been in the areas of various antennas, especially microstrip antennas, and computational electromagnetics.
Geoffrey C. Orsak
Associate Professor
Geoffrey C. Orsak received his B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, Houston, TX in 1985, 1986, and 1990, respectively.
He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Southern Methodist University. Prior to coming to Southern Methodist University, he was Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax,VA. His research interests are in the area of communication theory, detection and estimation theory, information theory, and statistical signal processing. In addition to this work, he has also been active in the use of high technology for novel forms of pedagogy.
Dr. Orsak has served as the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the 1994 Information Theory Workshop on "Information Theory and Statistics,'' Registration Chairman for the 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and General Chair for the 1996 CRASP Workshop on "Non-Gaussian Signal Processing." He is currently serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. In 1995, together with Professor Delores M. Etter of the University of Colorado at Boulder, he co-founded SPEC - The Signal Processing Education Consortium, a geographically distributed consortium of faculty whose aim is to advance DSP education at the undergraduate level. He has been a past recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award 1991-1994 and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu.
During 1998-99, Dr. Orsak is serving as a member of the Defense Science Study Group sponsored by the Institute for Defense Analyses.
Behrouz Peikari
Professor
Behrouz Peikari received his B.S. degree in electromechanical engineering from the University of Tehran in 1961, his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1964, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969.
During 1961-1962 he served as Instructor at the University of Tehran and during 1967-1968 he was a Teaching Assistant at the University of California. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University as an Assistant Professor in 1969 where he now is a Professor. Dr. Peikari is the author of the text Fundamentals of Network Analysis and Synthesis (Prentice-Hall, 1974) and a co-author of Circuit Analysis (Matrix, 1977). He is the recipient of five Outstanding Electrical Engineering Faculty Awards at SMU. He has been a consultant to a number of industrial firms in the areas of control and digital circuit design and his current research interest is in the areas of adaptive filtering, robotics and image recognition.
Dr. Peikari is a member of several professional and honor societies and has served as Chairman of IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Dallas Section and as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
Mandyam D. Srinath
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Srinath received the B.Sc. degree form the University of Mysore, India, in 1954, the Diploma in Electrical Technology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1957, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1959 and 1962, respectively.
He has been on the Electrical Engineering faculties at the University of Kansas, Lawrence and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University, were he has been since 1967. He has published numerous papers in signal and image processing, control and estimation theory. He is principal author of the book Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing with Applications, Prentice-Hall, 1996 and co-author of Continuous and Discrete Signals and Systems, by S. Soliman and M.D. Srinath, Prentice-Hall, 1990, 1998. His current research interests are in adaptive filters, image processing, and video data compression.
Dr. Srinath is a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas.