Nasser Kehtarnavaz is an Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor in the Department
of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas.
He was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M
University before
joining University of Texas at Dallas in 2002. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from Rice University
in 1987.
His research areas include signal and image processing, machine
learning and deep learning, real-time
implementation on embedded processors, and biomedical signal and image analysis. He has authored or
co-authored 11 books
and more than 400 publications in these areas as journal
papers, patents,
conference papers, manuals, and editorials. Dr. Kehtarnavaz has more than 35 years of academic and
industrial experience. His industrial
experience has included visiting scientist positions at Texas Instruments,
AT&T Bell Labs, US Army
TACOM Research Lab, and Houston Health Science Center. He has conducted
59 funded projects as PI or Co-PI, and has thus far graduated 34 PhD and 35 MS-thesis students.
Dr. Kehtarnavaz has pioneered and introduced
several innovative approaches for students to learn practical
implementation aspects of signal processing concepts. In his latest contribution, he has
introduced an
anywhere-anytime laboratory paradigm by using smartphones as
processing boards for applied signal
processing and signals and systems
laboratory courses.
Dr. Kehtarnavaz is
a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of SPIE, a Fellow of AAIA, and a licensed Professional Engineer.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Real-Time Image Processing and Chair of SPIE Conference on
Real-Time Image Processing and Deep Learning.