Edward J. Delp was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received the B.S.E.E. (cum laude) and M.S. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. In May 2002 he received an Honorary Doctor of Technology from the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland.
From 1980-1984, Dr. Delp was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since August 1984, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
In 2002 he received a chaired professorship and currently is The Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
In 2007 he received a Distinguished Professor appointment from the Academy of Finland as part of the Finland Distinguished Professor Program (FiDiPro). This appointment is at the Tampere
International Center for Signal Processing at the Tampere University of
Technology.
His research interests include image and video compression, multimedia
security, medical imaging, multimedia systems, communication and
information theory.
Dr. Delp has also consulted for various companies and government agencies in the areas of signal, image, and video processing, pattern recognition, and secure communications. He has published and presented more than 300 papers.
Dr. Delp is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the SPIE, a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2004 he received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for his work in image and video compression and multimedia security.
He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and ACM.
From 1997-1999 he was Chair of the Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. From 1994-1998 he was Vice-president for Publications of IS&T.
He was Co-Chair of the SPIE/IS&T Conference on Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents that was held in January 1998-2008. Dr. Delp was the General Co-Chair of the 1997 Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP) held in San Jose. He was Program Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Ninth IMDSP Workshop held in Belize in March 1996. He was General Co-Chairman of the 1993 SPIE/IS&T Symposium on Electronic Imaging.
Dr. Delp was the Program Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing that was held in Barcelona in 2003.
From 1984-1991 Dr. Delp was a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Cardiac Imaging. From 1991-1993, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. From 1992-1999 he was a member of the editorial board of the journal Pattern Recognition. From 1994-2000, Dr. Delp was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic Imaging. From 1996-1998, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He is also co-editor of the book Digital Cardiac Imaging published by Martinus Nijhoff.
In 1990 he received the Honeywell Award and in 1992 the D. D. Ewing Award, both for excellence in teaching. In 2001 Dr. Delp received the Raymond C. Bowman Award for fostering education in imaging science from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). In 2004 he received the Wilfred Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2000 Dr. Delp was selected a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and in 2002 and 2006 he was awarded Nokia Fellowships.
During the summers of 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006 Dr. Delp was a Visiting Professor at the Tampere International Center for Signal Processing at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland.
Dr. Delp is a registered Professional Engineer.