Northeastern ECE Professor and Chair Sheila S. Hemami presents Professor José Moura with the Distinguished Speaker Seminar plaque
Professor José M. F. Moura delivered the latest ECE Distinguished Speaker Series seminar on March 14 at Northeastern. The lecture, "The Data Deluge – the End of Theory?” drew examples from social media to discuss Big Data and whether this new influx of information has the power to render theories obsolete. Prof. Moura—who specializes in statistical signal processing and signal processing on graphs—reviewed current progress towards a revolution of the scientific method.
José M. F. Moura is a visiting Professor at CUSP, NYU (2013-14) and is the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Moura’s research interests are in statistical signal processing (SP) and distributed SP on graphs. He was an IEEE Board Director (2012-2013), President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), and was Editor in Chief for the Transactions on SP. Prof. Moura is the recipient of numerous awards and is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAAS, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.