Biography for R. O. Duda


Richard O. Duda is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University, where he has taught courses in the general area of circuit analysis, linear systems, and neural networks. In the past, he has done extensive research in pattern recognition, image analysis, and expert systems. His current research activities are in the area of sound processing and auditory scene analysis, with emphasis on the localization and synthesis of sound in three dimensions.

Prof. Duda received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from UCLA in 1958 and 1959, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1962. He was in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International from 1962 to 1980, serving as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1973/74 academic year. He was in the Laboratory for AI Research at Fairchild Semiconductor from 1980 to 1983, and was with Syntelligence until 1988, when he joined the EE faculty at SJSU. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis, where he is performing research on spatial sound in the CIPIC Interface Laboratory

Prof. Duda is the co-author with Peter E. Hart and David G. Stork of Pattern Classification, 2nd Ed. (Wiley, 2001). Prof. Duda is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, a member of the Audio Engineering Society, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.


Last updated: 12/19/01

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