PASADENA,CA-Palghat P. Vaidyanathan, professor of electrical engineering in the Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science here, has been awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society’s highest honor: the Society Award, which recognizes “outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the Signal Processing Society and outstanding leadership within...
that field.” The prize citation honors Vaidyanathan “for pioneering contributions to signal processing theory and education.” Vaidyanathan has been teaching electrical engineering at Caltech since 1983. His main research interests are in digital signal processing, which is foundational to signal representations, digital image and speech processing, signal compression, and digital communications. He has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed papers as well as four books on signal processing. In particular, his work helped launch the field of multirate signal processing and digital filter banks, which have been used to improve the efficiency of digital communications, audio, and image coders. As an early proponent of applying signal processing methods to genomics, Vaidyanathan developed methods to computationally predict the location of protein coding genes and noncoding genes.
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