Rangaraj M. Rangayyan is a
Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an
Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Radiology, at the University
of Calgary, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.
He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication
in 1976 from the University of Mysore
at the People's Education Society College of Engineering, Mandya,
Karnataka, India,
and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, Karnataka,
India, in 1980.
His research interests are in the areas of digital signal and image processing,
biomedical signal analysis, biomedical image analysis, and computer-aided
diagnosis. He has published more than 140 papers in journals and 230
papers in proceedings of conferences. His research productivity was recognized
with the 1997 and 2001 Research Excellence Awards of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, the 1997 Research Award of the Faculty of
Engineering, and by appointment as a “University Professor” in
2003, at the University
of Calgary. He is the
author of two books: Biomedical Signal Analysis (IEEE/ Wiley, 2002) and
Biomedical Image Analysis (CRC, 2005); he has coauthored and coedited several other books. He was recognized by the IEEE
with the award of the Third Millennium Medal in 2000, and was elected as a
Fellow of the IEEE in 2001, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in
2002, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
in 2003, Fellow of SPIE: the International Society
for Optical Engineering in 2003, Fellow of the Society for Imaging Informatics
in Medicine in 2007, Fellow of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering
Society in 2007, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2009. He
has been awarded the Killam Resident Fellowship
thrice (1998, 2002, and 2007) in support of his book-writing projects.
Dr. Rangaraj M. Rangayyan
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
(Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Radiology)
Room ICT 440, University of Calgary, 2500 University
Drive N.W.,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
Office Phone: +1 (403) 220-6745
Fax Number: +1 (403) 282-6855
e-mail: ranga@enel.ucalgary.ca
Web: http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/Ranga