Faculty
Douglas L. Jones
Professor
113 Coordinated Science Lab, MC-228
1308 W. Main St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 244-6823
PhD Electrical Engineering Rice University, Houston, TX May 1987
Research Statement:
See progress below.
Teaching Statement:
Professor Jones teaches from the freshman to graduate levels in the general area of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with an emphasis on signal processing. He is particularly interested in laboratory-based instruction, and has developed ECE 420: Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, the laboratory for ECE 210, and the laboratory-intensive ECE 101 general education course. Professor Jones is committed to enhancing engineering education world-wide, and has made his instructional texts for digital signal processing laboratory and advanced signal processing algorithms openly available for use and reuse through the Connexions open-source textbook project, and have been used at a number of universities and translated into several languages.
Research Interests:
- Digital Signal Processing
- Time-varying and Time-frequency Analysis
- Signal Processing for Communications
- Digital Signal Processing for Hearing Aids
- Signal Processing for MEMS
- Multichannel estimation and denoising
- Biological applications of signal processing
- VLSI implementation of digital signal processing
Undergraduate Research Opportunities:
Research on communication systems: methods for peak-power reduction (to improve
energy efficiency) for modern wireless communication systems. Students should have
taken, enjoyed, and done well in ECE 410; ECE 361 and ECE 420 preferred.
Research in 3D audio: methods for recreating accurate 3D perception of the direction
of sound through headphones from data recorded with various microphone arrays.
Students should have taken, enjoyed, and done well in ECE 410; ECE 420 preferred.
For more information:
Prof. Jones' Home Page
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements
- Connexions Author of the Year, 2003
- Fellow, IEEE, 2001
- Texas Instruments Visiting Professor, Rice University, 1999
- Fulbright Fellow, 1987-1988
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching
- ECE Ronald W. Pratt Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, 2006
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Research
- NSF Research Initiation Award, 1991
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Public Service
- Board of Governors, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2002-2005