Jennifer Davidson

Associate Professor
3121 Coover Hall
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Mathematics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

(515) 294-2941
(515) 294-3772 FAX
davidson@iastate.edu

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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.)

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RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Member of the Communications and Signal Processing Research Group at ISU.

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, data security - steganography and data integrity, and computation biology.