John Deller

Timeline

1. 1974–1979

   Degrees at Ohio State and Michigan

   He earns a BS in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, from Ohio State University in 1974. At the University of Michigan, he completes an MS in biomedical engineering in 1975, an MS in electrical and computer engineering in 1976 and a PhD in biomedical engineering in 1979.

2. 1993

   A speech processing textbook

   In 1993, Macmillan publishes Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals, which he writes as lead author with John G. Proakis and John H. L. Hansen. The book covers speech analysis, coding, enhancement and recognition, with chapters on dynamic time warping, the hidden Markov model, language modeling and the artificial neural network; IEEE Press reissues it in 2000.

3. 1997–1998

   Six years as magazine editor

   He receives the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1997 Meritorious Service Award for six years as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. His tutorial paper "Tom, Dick, and Mary Discover the DFT" wins the magazine's Best Paper Award in 1998.

4. 1999

   A microcontroller signal processing book

   In 1999, Prentice Hall publishes Digital Signal Processing and the Microcontroller, which he writes with Dale Grover of Red Cedar Electronics; the book teaches digital filters and the FFT on microcontrollers for embedded systems. He is a professor of electrical engineering at Michigan State University, where he coordinates the Communications and Signal Processing Research Laboratories and the related curriculum.

5. 2002–2003

   Language identification and watermarking

   In 2002, with MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Information Systems Technology Group, he coauthors language identification papers on Gaussian mixture model tokenization and on Gaussian mixture models with shifted delta cepstral features. His Speech Processing Laboratory also develops secure watermarking algorithms for the National Gallery of the Spoken Word, an NSF Digital Libraries II Initiative, and publishes speech watermarking work with Aparna Gurijala in 2003.

6. By 2003

   IEEE Fellow and Millennium Medal

   By 2003, he is an IEEE Fellow and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University, where he directs the Speech Processing Laboratory. He also receives the IEEE Millennium Medal for contributions to signal-processing education.

7. 2005

   Spoken document retrieval and genomics

   In 2005, he coauthors "SpeechFind: Advances in spoken document retrieval for a National Gallery of the Spoken Word" with John H. L. Hansen and others in IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. His lab also presents a learning framework for detecting remote non-coding RNA homologies at the 2005 Intelligent Systems for Computational Biology conference in Detroit.

8. By 2022

   Emeritus professor at Michigan State

   By 2022, he is an emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University. His research covers statistical signal processing for speech and hearing, genomics and other areas of biomedicine, and he has written or co-written three textbooks.