Dan E. Dudgeon

Affiliated Scientist

Dr. Dan E. Dudgeon has been active in the fields of image processing, array signal processing, multidimensional signal processing, and target recognition for over thirty years. He is a senior principal systems engineer at BAE Systems in Nashua NH, currently working on problems of decentralized data fusion for distributed sensing networks. From 1979 through 2002, he participated in and supervised various research programs in multidimensional signal processing and machine vision at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, including work on an experimental target recognition system for
laser radar imagery and model-based target recognition algorithms for synthetic aperture radar data. From 1974 through 1978, he worked at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc., Cambridge MA, developing algorithms for processing underwater acoustic signals and tracking acoustic targets.

In addition to numerous papers on multidimensional signal processing and automatic target recognition, he co-authored "Two-Dimensional Digital Filtering" in the Proceedings of the IEEE, which was awarded the 1976 IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize. He also co-authored the texts "Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing", published by Prentice-Hall in 1984, and "Array Signal Processing: Concepts and Methods", published by Prentice-Hall in 1993.

Because of his contributions to the field of multidimensional signal processing, Dr. Dudgeon was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1987. In 1988 he was named a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society. He was a charter member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Multidimensional Signal Processing, and during 1986-7 he served as its chairman. He also served as Secretary of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1988-91 and on its Board of Governors from 1995-96.

Dr. Dudgeon was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Science and Engineering in 1970. As a graduate student he was affiliated with the Digital Signal Processing Group of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics as well as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, receiving the Doctor of Science degree specializing in Signal Processing in 1974.

Yonina Eldar

Affiliated Scientist

Yonina Eldar received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1995 and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 both from Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2001 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.

From January 2002 to July 2002 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Digital Signal Processing Group at MIT. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. She is also a Research Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.

From 1992 through 1996 she was in the program for outstanding students in TAU. In 1998 she held the Rosenblith Fellowship for study in Electrical Engineering at MIT, and in 2000 she held an IBM Research Fellowship. She is currently a Horev Fellow in the Leaders in Science and Technology program at the Technion, and an Alon Fellow.

Bernard Gold

Affiliated Scientist

Ben Gold was born in New York City in 1923. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from City College of New York in 1944 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1948. He spent three years at the Hughes Aircraft Company (1950-1953) before coming to Lincoln Laboratory in 1953. From 1954-1955 he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Rome, Italy. He returned to Lincoln in 1955 and remained until retiring in 1988. At present he is consultant at Lincoln and also for MIT (in the DSPG group)

Ben is the co-author of three books: "Digital Processing of Signals" with Charles M. Rader, published in 1969. "Theory and Applications of Digital Signal Processing"
with Lawrence R. Rabiner, published in 1975. " Speech and Audio Signal Processing" with Nelson Morgan, published in 2000.

Ben is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Award in 1986 and he and Rader shared the first Kilby medal in 1997.

Ben died of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage on January 15, 2005 at MGH Boston. He was 81 years old and still active in teaching and research. Ben was a wonderful husband, father, close friend, colleague, and generous mentor who leaves us with a legacy of love, humanity, and common sense. Besides being one of the true pioneers of Digital Signal Processing as a field, he was both directly and indirectly one of the significant guiding spirits behind the Digital Signal Processing Group at MIT.

Ehud Weinstein

Affiliated Scientist

Ehud Weinstein received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1975 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1978.

In 1980, he joined the department of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University where he is a professor. During 1989-1992 he served as the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department.

Professor Weinstein has been a research affiliate at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT since 1990. He has also been an Adjunct Scientist at the department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) since 1978.

Professor Weinstein has published over 50 papers and holds several patents in his field of research—signal processing and digital communications. He received several awards and special recognition for his scientific contributions. In 1994 he was elected to become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Professor Weinstein has been a consultant to several technology companies in the United States and Israel. He was the Chairman and CEO of Libit Signal Processing, which was founded in 1994 and acquired by Texas Instruments (TI) in 1999. He was selected as a Senior Fellow at TI for his leadership role in establishing Libit and bringing its cable modem technology to market acceptance.

In 2001, Professor Weinstein established the Yizhak and Chaya Weinstein Research Institute for Signal Processing within the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University.