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Douglas L. Jones is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

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Biography

Jones received the BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

 in 1983, 1986, and 1987, respectively. During the 1987-1988 academic year, he was at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany on a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship. Since 1988, he has been with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

, where he is currently a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute.

In Spring 1995 and 2002 Jones was on sabbatical leave at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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, and the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, respectively. In July through September 1998 he was a participant in the Programme on Nonlinear and Nonstationary Signal Processing at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, England. In the Spring semester of 1999 he served as the Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments

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 Visiting Professor at Rice University. In December 2005 he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Melbourne.

Jones is a Fellow of the IEEE (IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow

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) and served as a Member-at-Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors 2002-2005. He teaches courses at the freshman through graduate level in the general area of signal processing

Signal processing

Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...

, and is an author of the laboratory textbooks "A Digital Signal Processing

Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...

 Laboratory Using the TMS32010" and DSP Laboratory with TI TMS320C54x. In 2006, he received the UIUC ECE Ronald W. Pratt Award for Teaching Excellence. He is committed to the emerging open-source textbook movement and was the Connexions Author of the Year in 2003. His research interests are in digital signal processing and communications, including nonstationary signal analysis, adaptive filters and beamforming

Beamforming

Beamforming is a signal processing technique used in sensor arrays for directional signal transmission or reception. This is achieved by combining elements in the array in a way where signals at particular angles experience constructive interference and while others experience destructive...

, OFDM and DMT

DMT

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 optimization, biologically inspired signal processing, and various applications including low-power wireless communication, MEMS

Microelectromechanical systems

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sensory systems, and advanced hearing aids.