Evans, Brian

Biography:

Dr. Brian L. Evans is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching efforts are in embedded real-time signal and image processing systems. In signal processing, his research group is focused on the design and real-time software implementation of ADSL transceivers and multiuser OFDM systems, with the goal of maximizing connection rates for high-speed Internet access. In transceiver design, his group's primary contribution is the first ADSL equalization structure that maximizes a measure of bit rate and is realizable in real-time fixed-point software. In image processing, his group is focused on the design and real-time software implementation of high-quality halftoning for desktop printers and smart image acquisition for digital still cameras. His group also researches perceptual image hashing and its applications in multimedia authentication, databases, and watermarking. In imaging, his group's primary contribution is in the design, analysis, and quality assessment of halftoning by error diffusion for real-time processing by printer pipelines. In signal and image processing, Dr. Evans has published over 140 refereed conference and journal papers.

Dr. Evans is the primary architect of the Signals and Systems Pack for Mathematica, which has been on the market since October 1995. He was a key contributor to UC Berkeley's Ptolemy Classic electronic design automation environment for embedded systems, which has been successfully commercialized by Agilent and Cadence. He developed and currently teaches two graduate courses, Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing and Embedded Software Systems, and two undergraduate courses, Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory and Linear Systems and Signals, in order to help train undergraduate and graduate students in the theory, algorithms, design, and implementation of signal and image processing systems. His B.S.E.E.C.S. (1987) degree is from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and his M.S.E.E. (1988) and Ph.D.E.E. (1993) degrees are from the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 1993 to 1996, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Ptolemy project at UC Berkeley. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and a member of the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is the recipient of a 1997 US National Science Foundation CAREER Award and became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2009.