About DLS
Donald L. Snyder received the bachelor of science
degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern
California in 1961 and the master of science
and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1963 and 1966, respectively. From 1966 to
1969, he was on the faculty of M.I.T. He joined Washington University
in 1969 as a member of the
faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department in the
School of Engineering and the
Biomedical Computer Laboratory of the
School of Medicine where
he participated in research with Jerome R. Cox, Michael TerPogossian,
and
others in the development of positron-emisson-tomography systems.
He was the Samuel C. Sachs Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Professor of Radiology. He served as Chairman of the
Department of Electrical Engineering from 1976
to 1986. He is the founding
Director of the Electronic Systems and
Signals Research Laboratory in
the Department of Electrical Engineering, and he served as director of
this laboratory from 1986 to 1998. During this period, ESSRL grew to seven faculty, twenty-five
graduate students, and a handful of undergraduate students working
together on research in fundamental aspects of imaging applied to
biomedical, astronomical, and remote-sensing problems. He is a Fellow
of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, cited
for “contributions to estimation theory
and applications to communications and medicine,” and he served as the
1980 President of that Institute’s Information Theory Society. His current research, along with faculty and students from the
Washington University Schools of Engineering and Medicine, is aimed at
improving the capabilities of x-ray imaging technology to improve the
treatment of patients having advanced cervical cancer. He
is presently Senior Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering.
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