Ed Jernigan received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, 1971, and 1975, respectively. He joined the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Water
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Ed Jernigan received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, 1971, and 1975, respectively. He joined the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1976, where he is currently Professor and past Chair. He is a Distinguished Teacher of the University of Waterloo. His research interests include non-linear and adaptive systems for signal and image processing, vision and machine perception, and pattern recognition, particularly with applications in medical imaging and remote sensing. Since 1984 he has served as the Program Director for the Shad Valley summer enrichment program, living in residence with 48 high school students during the month of July. In 2004 he launched a new university wide enrichment program for high school students of exceptional potential, Waterloo Unlimited (see www.unlimited.uwaterloo.ca).
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