2005 Activities and Events

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Date/Time December 11th, 2005   Title Efficient Nonlinear Image Processing Algorithm Speaker Prof. Sanjit K. Mitra, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA Abstract   Biography Sanjit K. Mitra received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960 and 1962, respectively. He is presently with the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor. He has published over 700 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 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 MacVan Valkenburg Society Award of the IEEE Circuits AND Systems Society, the Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 1989, the 1996 Technical Achievement Award and the 2001 Society 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 of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and the 2005 SPIE Technology Achievement Award of the International Soceity for Optical Engineers, the University Medal of the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2005, and the 2006 IEEE J. H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal. He is the co-recipient of the 2000 Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium of the the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) and the 2001 IEEE Transactions on Circuits AND Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award. He has received 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, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, an Academician of the Academy of Finland, and a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academy of Engineering, Mexico. He is a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and SPIE. Venue   Organizers IEEE Singapore Women In Engineering Affinity Group Sponsors   Misc Announcement Presentation materials Photos of the Event Map of Venue

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