John Deller

John R. "Jack" Deller Jr. is an American electrical engineer, IEEE Life Member and Fellow, and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. He is known for his research in statistical signal processing with applications to speech processing, bioinformatics, and medical diagnostics, and for his influential textbooks on digital speech signal processing.

Deller served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine for six years and received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Meritorious Service Award in 1997 for holding this appointment. At Michigan State University, he directed the Statistical Signal Processing Laboratory and was an affiliate faculty member in MSU's BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.

Research and publications Deller's research focuses on statistical signal processing with applications to bioinformatics, medical diagnostics, speech processing, and communications technologies. The paper presents an innovative pedagogical approach to explaining the discrete Fourier transform through a narrative of three undergraduate students discovering the mathematical relationships between continuous and discrete Fourier analysis. However, there were several mathematical errors in the paper.

Books Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals (with John H. L. Hansen and John G. Proakis), Macmillan, 1993; Wiley-IEEE Press Classic Reissue, 1999 (, 936 pages)

Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals provides a comprehensive treatment of digital speech signal processing, covering speech production physiology and modeling, signal analysis techniques, coding, enhancement, quality assessment, and recognition.

Honors and awards IEEE Life Member and Fellow