Jennifer Davidson

Associate Professor
319 Durham Center
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Mathematics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

(515) 294-2941
(515) 294-1152 FAX
davidson@iastate.edu

CURRENT SCHEDULE

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EDUCATION

1989 Ph.D., Math, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1986 M.S., Math, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1979 B.S., Physics, Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA

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ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

• 8/95 - Present, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  Iowa State University, Ames, IA
• 8/89 - 7/95 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Department,
  Iowa State University, Ames, IA
• 5/91 - Present, Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics,
  Iowa State University, Ames, IA
• Summer 1992, Participant in Air Force Office of Science Research Summer Faculty Research Program
  Eglin Air Force Base, FL (Nationally Competitive: 100/800 accepted)
• 9/85 - 5/87 Research Assistant, Computer Science Department
  University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• 8/83 -5/85 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics
  University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• 7/82 - 5/83 Computer Systems Analyst
  University of Florida Alumni Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL
• 6/81 - 7/82 Associate Geophysics, Bellaire Research Labs, Texaco.
  Member of the data processing group and filed acquisition group that processed seismic data and wrote programs to simulate geophone array responses.
  Houston, TX

1/79 Intern. Conducted analysis of solar energy air collector panels through computer simulation on existing software.
Total Environmental Action, Inc., Harrisville, NH, (TEA, Inc., is a solar research and design company.) ________________________________________________________________

RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Applications of discrete mathematics that provide novel solutions to fundamental problems in image processing and other areas. Includes the use of image algebra, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and stochastic processes in such areas as texture modeling and analysis, object recognition, boundary detection, and steganogrphy.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Office of Naval Research, Inference for Spatial Stochastic Processes

• Papers
• Steganography
• Lexicodes for Imaging

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TEACHING

• EE 201 Electric Circuits
• CprE 310 Theoretical Foundations of Computer
• EE 321 Linear Systems
• EE 524 Digital Signal Processing
• EE 528 Digital Image Processing
• EE 545 Artificial Neural Networks
• EE 628 Computer Vision
• 3 Year Teaching Schedule
• A List of EE and CprE Classes that have Homepages

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member, Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• Member, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society
• Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• Member, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• Member, Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Your comments and suggestions will be highly appreciated.

This home page is maintained by Jennifer Davidson (davidson@iastate.edu)

Last updated January 19, 1998.