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Rui J. P. de Figueiredo
- Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
Education:
B.S.and M.S., M.I.T. (Electrical Engineering) Ph.D., Harvard University (Applied Mathematics)
Location:
California Insitute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2800
zotcode: 2800
Room:
Office: Calit2 4300
Phone:
- (949) 824-7043
- (949) 854-6528 Fax
Research:
For an overview of Prof. de Figueiredo’s research please refer to his Research Highlights and Selected Publications I and Selected Publications II, all described under his URL www.lminsc.uci.edu. In his earlier research and papers, Prof. de Figueiredo developed novel Hilbert Space methods for formulating and solving fundamentally nonlinear problems in signal, image, and information processing (NSIIP) across various applications. In his current research, he is continuing this effort both at the processor level and at the network level, as well as integrating such processing into multi-scale nonlinear signal, image, and information processing (MS-NSIIP) in novel ways. All of this is providing powerful abstractions as well as an implementation methodology for insertion of computational intelligence and cognitive agility into nonlinear systems modeling and design. (see R. J. P. de Figueiredo, "Beyond Volterra and Wiener: Optimal Modeling of Dynamical Systems in a Neural Space for Applications in Computational Intelligence" in COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: THE EXPERTS SPEAK, edited by D. B. Fogel and C. J. Robinson, IEEE Press and Wiley-Interscience, 2003).
Biography:
Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, B.S. and M.S. (Electrical Engineering), M.I.T., and Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Harvard University, is Research Professor (Above Scale) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics, at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is also Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology of UCI. Prior to joining UCI in 1990, Dr. de Figueiredo served as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas (1965-90). Professor de Figueiredo has won numerous honors for his fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of signal/image processing and communications, and to nonlinear control; and for his role as an educator and as a leader in his field and in his profession. These honors include: election to the UN-sponsored International Informatization Academy (2003), the 1999 IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Golden Jubilee Medal, the 2000 IEEE Tri-Millennium Medal, the 2003 Gh. Asachi Medal from the Technical University of Iasi (TUI), Romania, from which he also received the title of Honorary Professor (2003), the IEEE Fellow Award (1976), the 1994 IEEE CAS Technical Achievement Award, the 2000 IEEE Neural Networks Transactions Best Paper Award, the 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems Transactions Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, the 2002 IEEE CAS Society M. E. Van Valkenburg Society Award, the 1988 NCR Educator-of-the-Year Award, his election to President of IEEE CAS Society in 1998, and, last but not least, his selection by IEEE to be one of its fifty leaders, among its nearly 350,000 members, to present the IEEE vision of the new century in the book ENGINEERING TOMORROW: Today’s Technology Experts Envision the Next Century, Janie Fouke, Editor, IEEE Press, 2000. ________________________________________
