David C. Munson, Jr.

David C. Munson, Jr. is the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering (with distinction) from the University of Delaware in 1975, and the M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University 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 faculty member in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In June 2003 he became Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.

Professor Munson's teaching and research interests are in the general area of signal and image processing. His current research is focused on radar imaging, passive millimeter-wave imaging, and computer tomography. 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. He is co-founder of InstaRecon, Inc., a start-up to commercialize fast algorithms for image formation in computer tomography. He is affiliated with the Infinity Project, where he is coauthor of a textbook on the digital world, which is used in about 200 high schools nationwide to introduce students to engineering.

Professor Munson is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a past president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. In addition to multiple teaching awards and other honors, he was presented the Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, he served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, he received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and he was the Texas Instruments Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rice University. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he was the Robert C. MacClinchie Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.