High-Performance VLSI Signal Processing Innovative Architectures and Algorithms, Volume 2, Systems Design and Applications

K. J. Ray Liu is an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland in College Park. Dr. Liu's research interests span all aspects of signal processing with application to image/video, wireless communications, networking, and medical biomedical technology. He has published more than one hundred papers, many of which are in archival journals, books, and book chapters. He has won many awards, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Senior Award for Best Paper in VLSI in 1993 and the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994.

Kung Yao is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California in Los Angeles. His research and professional interests include systolic and VLSI algorithms, architectures and systems, digital and acoustic signal processing, microphone and sensor array, spectral analysis, and stochastic processes. Dr. Yao is a member of the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the Editorial Board of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Senior Award for Best Paper in VLSI in 1993. Dr. Yao is a Fellow of IEEE.