Professor Nirmal Bose

Dr. Bose is the HRB-Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering. He pioneered the development of multidimensional systems theory and applied that developed theory to the processing and coding of degraded signals. Specifically, he investigated the restoration and high resolution reconstruction of blurred and noisy images, suggested a computationally efficient scheme (based on depth-first search) for tracking multiple targets in clutter, and wrote several fundamental papers in the area of robust systems, combinatorics and graph theory, artificial neural networks, and neurofuzzy computing. Recently, he has supervised research in the error-resilient coding of compressed video.  These topics and others led to significant graduate research, a variety of sources of funding (including Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Office, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, IBM, NASA, AFOSR and Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse), a series of reviewed journal publications, books, and book chapters, and a continuing sequence of invited presentations at conferences, symposiums, and workshops. To date, he supervised to completion over twenty-five doctoral dissertations and all his students hold good positions in academia, industry and government. 

Dr. Bose was elected to be a Fellow of IEEE in 1981 for his contributions to multidimensional systems theory and circuits and systems education. He served as a visiting faculty at various universities including the American University of Beirut at Lebanon, University of Maryland at College Park, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University and Ruhr University at Bochum. He was invited to conduct research for extended periods in France, Germany, and in 1994-95 he  served as a United Nations Development Program advisor to the Government of India. More recently, during the period December, 1999 to January, 2000 he was invited by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science to conduct research and give seminars at various locations in Japan.  He was the recipient in 2000 of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award for U.S. scientists which is extended by invitation from Germany. In 2000 he received the IEEE Third Millennium Merit Medal and was named the Fetter Endowment University Fellow from 2001-2004.  Dr. Bose was invited to visit the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS), National University of Singapore, in December 2003 as a Senior Member of IMS.  In February 2005, he was selected for listing in "The First 15" of notable and influential engineers at web address www.eng.pro by RegistryPro.  He was invited to spend the month of August 2005 to conduct research and lecture at Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan.

Dr. Bose has been internationally recognized for his scientific papers and books including Applied Multidimensional Systems Theory (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982), Digital Filters: Theory and Applications (Elsevier, 1985; Krieger, 1993), and Multidimensional Systems: Progress, Directions and Open Problems, (D. Reidel, 1985). He coauthored the text entitled, Neural Networks Fundamentals: with Graphs, Algorithms, and Applications, which was published by McGraw-Hill in September 1995. In 2003, his book entitled Multidimensional Systems Theory and Applications (with contributions also by B. Buchberger and J. P. Guiver) was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.  He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, since March 1990. He also served as Associate Editor for The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (for two terms). 

He gave invited plenary lectures at the Artificial Neural Networks Conference at St. Louis in November 1994 (opening plenary), the Norbert Wiener Centennial at Michigan State University in December 1994 (plenary), the International Workshop in Robust Control at Napa Valley in June 1996 (opening lecture), the First International Wokshop on Multidimensional Systems at Lagow, Poland, in July 1998, (opening plenary), the International Workshop on Control of Uncertain Systems: Emerging Directions at Hong Kong in June-July, 1999, the Second  International Wokshop on Multidimensional Systems at Czocha Castle, Poland, in June 2000 (opening plenary), the Workshop on Mathematics in Image Processing at Hong Kong in December 2000 (opening speaker), the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Its Applications at Orlando, Florida, in May 2001 (opening session speaker), the Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems at Cascais, Portugal in July 2002, and the International Conference on Numerical Methods in Imaging Science and Information Processing at Singapore in December 2003 (plenary).  On August 29,  2005, he was invited to deliver the opening lecture at the International Conference on Super-Resolution Imaging, held at the University of Hong Kong.

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