Faculty Profile - Russell M. Mersereau

Regents' Professor Emeritus
Digital Signal Processing

Phone: 404.894.2913
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Office: Cent 5224

Biography

Dr. Mersereau grew up in the Northeast and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as both an undergraduate and graduate student. He received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in 1969 and his Sc.D. in 1973. He remained at MIT as a Research Associate until 1975, when he joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech.

Since beginning with Georgia Tech Dr. Mersereau has played a prominent role in establishing the Digital Signal Processing Group as one of the best in the world. Dr. Mersereau is an international leader in two-dimensional signal processing and his contributions in both teaching and research have been widely recognized.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests

Enhancement, modeling and coding of computerized images and video
Digital signal processing for communications
Acoustic arrays for echo removal and object tracking
Pattern recognition

Distinctions

Fellow, IEEE
Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of the IEEE
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Vice-President for Awards and Membership, IEEE Signal Processing Society
1976 Browlder J. Thompson Memorial Prize of the IEEE for Best Technical Paper by a young author
1977 Research Unit Award of the Southeastern Section of the ASEE
1995 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award
1990 Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Last revised on July 25, 2006.