Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Nasser Kehtarnavaz is an Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor and Director of the Embedded Machine Learning (EML) Laboratory at the University of Texas at Dallas's Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a PhD from Rice University (1987) and has over 40 years of academic and industrial experience. His research focuses on signal/image processing, machine learning, biomedical applications, and real-time embedded systems. He has authored/co-authored 11 books and over 450 publications, and supervised 37 PhD and 35 MS students.

• Leadership roles: Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, SPIE Conference Chair, IEEE Fellow (2013), AAIA Fellow
• Industrial collaborations: Texas Instruments, AT&T Bell Labs, US Army TACOM Research Lab
• Key contributions: Smartphone-based signal processing labs, hearing aid amplification algorithms, and FPGA-based embedded systems

Research interests include real-time implementation on embedded processors, biomedical signal analysis, and smartphone-based laboratories. He has pioneered educational tools like anywhere-anytime labs using smartphones for signal processing education.

Recipient of numerous awards including IEEE Region 5 Professional Leadership Award (2015), Outstanding Engineering Educator Award (2013), and community recognition from SPIE (2020-2021). His funded projects (62 as PI/Co-PI) span healthcare tech, energy systems, and semiconductor manufacturing.

Director of the EML Lab and previously the Signal and Image Processing Lab. Teaches graduate courses like Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition and undergraduate courses in signals and systems.