John Deller
John R. "Jack" Deller Jr. is an American electrical engineer, IEEE Life Member and Fellow, and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. He is known for his research in statistical signal processing with applications to speech processing, bioinformatics, and medical diagnostics, and for his influential textbooks on digital speech signal processing.
Deller served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine for six years and received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Meritorious Service Award in 1997 for holding this appointment. At Michigan State University, he directed the Statistical Signal Processing Laboratory and was an affiliate faculty member in MSU's BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.
Education
Deller received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering summa cum laude from Ohio State University in 1974. He then attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a Master of Science in bioengineering, a Master of Science in electrical and computer engineering, and a Doctor of Philosophy in biomedical engineering.Career
Deller was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University, where he directed the Statistical Signal Processing Laboratory and served as an affiliate faculty member in the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. His research interests include statistical signal processing with applications to bioinformatics, medical diagnostics, speech processing, and communications technologies.He served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine for six years, for which he received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Meritorious Service Award in 1997. He has also served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.
Research and publications
Deller's research focuses on statistical signal processing with applications to bioinformatics, medical diagnostics, speech processing, and communications technologies. He has authored or co-authored two textbooks, contributed chapters to several research books, and is completing a third three-volume text on deterministic and stochastic signal processing.His tutorial paper "Tom, Dick, and Mary Discover the DFT" was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award in 1997. The paper presents an innovative pedagogical approach to explaining the discrete Fourier transform through a narrative of three undergraduate students discovering the mathematical relationships between continuous and discrete Fourier analysis. However, there were several mathematical errors in the paper.
Books
Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals, Macmillan, 1993; Wiley-IEEE Press Classic Reissue, 1999 Digital Signal Processing and the Microcontroller, Prentice Hall, 1999Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals provides a comprehensive treatment of digital speech signal processing, covering speech production physiology and modeling, signal analysis techniques, coding, enhancement, quality assessment, and recognition. Digital Signal Processing and the Microcontroller takes a practical, accessible approach to DSP implementation on embedded systems, aimed at readers without extensive mathematical background.
Honors and awards
- IEEE Life Member and Fellow
- IEEE Millennium Medal for contributions to signal-processing research and education
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award