UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 38, Page 7
July 21, 1994
Neal Gallagher new chair of electrical engineering dept.

     Neal Charles Gallagher, a member of the electrical engineering
faculty at Purdue University since 1976, was appointed professor and
chairperson of the Department of Electrical Engineering, effective
Sept.1.
     A graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, Gallagher holds two
master's degrees and a doctorate from Princeton University.
     His research interests include digital signal processing, image
processing, optics and holography, electromagnetic scattering, neural
networks and cellular automata, and he has been the principal or co-
principal investigator on research projects totaling in excess of $3.5
million.
     A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE), Gallagher was cited for "contributions to the theory and
application of rank order filtering and computer-generated
holography." Also a fellow of the Optical Society of America, he was
cited for the "design of computer-generated diffractive elements for
laser beam scanning and microwave beam forming."
     Gallagher has published nearly 70 articles in journals and has
given numerous presentations and invited lectures. He is associate
editor of Optic Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and
Applied Optics.
     He also serves as a consultant to Honeywell and to the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, where he spent a sabbatical year in
1983. He co-designed a computer-generated microwave hologram for the
laboratory that is on tour as part of an exhibition sponsored by the
National Canadian Technical Museum and scheduled to end at the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure