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Jim and Pat Candy
University of California, Santa Barbara and a registered Control System Engineer in the state of California. Dr. Candy is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and was recently elected as a Life Member (Fellow) at the University of Cambridge (Clare Hall College). He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi honorary soci- eties and was elected as a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Candy received the IEEE Distinguished Technical Achievement Award for the “devel- opment of model-based signal processing in ocean acoustics.” Dr. Candy was selected as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for oceanic signal processing. He was recently award- ed the prestigious Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal by the ASA “for his contributions to signal processing and ocean acoustics.” He has published over 200 journal arti- cles, book chapters, and technical reports as well as written three texts in signal processing with a fourth in press. He is currently the IEEE Chair of the Technical Committee on Sonar Signal and Image Processing and served as Chair of the ASA Technical Committee on Signal Processing in Acoustics and as an Associate Editor for Signal Processing of JASA Express Letters.
James V. Candy is the Chief Scientist for Engineering and former Director of the Center for Advanced Signal & Image Sciences at the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Candy received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Cincinnati and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is an Adjunct Full-Professor at the
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