Professional History

Kenneth E. Barner (IEEE,S'84-M'92-SM'00) was born in Montclair New Jersey, on December 14, 1963. He received a B.S.E.E. degree ( magna cum laude) from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1987. He received the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. For his dissertation ``Permutation Filters: A Group Theoretic Class of Non--Linear Filters,'' Dr. Barner received the Allan P. Colburn Prize in Mathematical Sciences and Engineering for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in the engineering and mathematical disciplines.

Dr. Barner was the duPont Teaching Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Delaware in 1991 and 1992, respectively. From 1993 to 1997 Dr. Barner was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware and a Research Engineer at the duPont Hospital for Children. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware. Dr. Barner is the recipient of a 1999 NSF CAREER award. He was the co--chair of the 2001 IEEE--EURASIP Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP) Workshop and a guest editor for a special issue of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing. Dr. Barner is a member of the Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing Board and is is co--editing the book Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing: Theory, Methods, and Applications. Dr. Barner is also serving as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and the IEEE Transaction on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Dr. Barner is also a member of the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing. His research interests include signal and image processing, robust signal processing, nonlinear systems, communications, haptic and tactile methods, and universal access. Dr. Barner is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Sigma Kappa.