Biography
David C. Munson, Jr. received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering
(with distinction) from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, in 1975,
and the M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1977, 1977, and 1979, respectively.
From 1979 to 2003 he was with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
where he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research
Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and a part-time faculty
member in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In
2003 he became Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
His research interests are in the general area of signal and image
processing with current work focused on radar imaging, passive
millimeter-wave imaging, lidar imaging, tomography, interferometry,
and high-precision GPS. He has held summer positions in digital
communications and speech processing, and he has served as a consultant
in synthetic aperture radar to the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory.
Dr. Munson has held leadership positions in the IEEE Signal Processing
Society, where he has served as President and as Founding Editor-in-Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. In addition, he has served
as Vice-President, elected member of the Board of Governors, Chairman of the
Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, member of the Digital
Signal Processing Technical Committee, and Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Dr. Munson also
has been active in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, where he has
served as Executive Vice-President, as elected member of the Board of Governors,
and as Chairman of the Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee. He
recently finished a term on the IEEE History Committee and is now serving
on the Editorial Board of The Proceedings of the IEEE and as chair of the
IEEE Kilby Signal Processing Medal Committee.
Dr. Munson is a Fellow of the IEEE. In 1990, he received the Outstanding
Professor Award from the Alpha Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu. In 1995, he
received the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Signal Processing
Society and an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Delaware
College of Engineering. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award
from his department at the University of Illinois. He served as the Texas
Instruments Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rice University in 1999.
He was named an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer and
he received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. In 2001, he was named
the Robert C. MacClinchie Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Illinois. He received the 2003 Society Award
from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
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