Event
Booz Allen Colloquium: Sanjit Mitra, USC, "Digital Signal Processing: Road to the Future"
Monday, October 4, 2010
3:30 p.m.
Kim Engineering Building, Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
Jess Molina
301 405 4471
jmolina2@umd.edu
http://www.ece.umd.edu/colloquium
Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium in Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Digital Signal Processing: Road to the Future"
Prof. Sanjit Mitra
Stephen and Etta Varra Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
*PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME: MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 3:30 pm
Abstract:
The field of digital signal processing (DSP) has been a very active area of research and application for almost five decades. This broad development has paralleled in time the rapid development of high-speed electronic digital computers, microelectronics, and integrated circuit fabrication technologies. An ever-increasing assortment of integrated circuits specifically tailored to perform common DSP functions is available to the design engineer as system building blocks or parts-in-trade. DSP methodologies have been applied to consumer electronics, communications, automotive electronics, instrumentation, medical electronics, tomography and acoustic imaging, cartography, seismology, speech recognition, robotics etc. In this talk we first provide a brief overview of the initial developments in DSP, followed by a review of some of the important advances made during almost fifty year period of its growth, and describe a number of key applications. We conclude with a speculation on the future trends and directions.
Bio:
Sanjit K. Mitra is the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor of Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published over 660 papers in the areas of analog and digital signal processing, and image processing. He has also authored and co-authored twelve books, and holds five patents. Dr. Mitra has served IEEE in various capacities including service as the President of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society in 1986, and has held visiting appointments in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Singapore, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Mitra is the recipient of the 1973 F.E. Terman Award and the 1985 AT&T Foundation Award of the American Society of Engineering Education, the 1989 Education Award, and the 2000 Mac Van Valkenburg Society Award of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society, the Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 1989, the 1996 Technical Achievement Award, the 2001 Society Award and the 2006 Education Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award of the IEEE Education Society in 2001, the 2002 Technical Achievement Award and the 2009 Athanasios Papoulis Award of the European Association for Signal Processing, the 2005 SPIE Technology Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineers, the University Medal of the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia in 2005, and the 2006 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal. He is the co-recipient of the 2000 Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) and the 2001 IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, the Technical University of Bucharest, Romania, and the Technical University of Iasi, Romania. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, an Academician of the Academy of Finland, a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, corresponding member of the Academy of Engineering, Mexico, and a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and SPIE.
