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Optical society honors Texas A&M Engineering's Dougherty
Optical society honors Texas A&M Engineering's Dougherty
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Dr. Edward R. Dougherty, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the Presidential Award from SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering.
The SPIE President's Award is given to an individual who has rendered a unique and meritorious service of outstanding benefit to the society. Dougherty, an SPIE Fellow, received the award for his distinguished service as a conference chair, course instructor, book author, journal editor and society leader.
Dougherty directs the Genomic Signal Processing Laboratory (http://gsp.tamu.edu) in the electrical engineering department and is considered a leader in the study of the Human Genome Project by measuring gene activity with engineering techniques such as signal processing, pattern recognition and image analysis. The lab focuses on expression-based phenotype classification (mostly cancer classification), synthesis and analysis of gene regulatory networks, and therapeutic strategies based on applying the principles of optimal control to regulatory networks.
Dougherty is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and has collaborated extensively with both the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health and the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix.
Dougherty has been editor or associate editor for several technical journals and has chaired a number of professional conferences. His other recent honors include being elected chair of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) activity group on imaging science and having a paper accepted to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Dougherty has also been named a Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Fellow at Texas A&M.
He received his Bachelor of Science and his Master of Science in mathematics from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He earned a second master's degree in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Rutgers University.
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Source: Dr. Edward R. Dougherty
Edward@ee.tamu.edu
Reporter: Lesley Kriewald
lesleyk@tamu.edu
(979) 845-5524
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