John R. (Jack) Deller, Jr. is an IEEE Fellow and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University where he directs the Speech Processing Laboratory. He holds the Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering, 1979), M.S. (Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1976), and M.S. (Biomedical Engineering, 1975) degrees from the University of Michigan and the B.S. (Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, 1974) from the Ohio State University. His research interests include statistical signal processing with applications to speech and biomedicine. His work has been published in respected journals and conferences, and he has co-authored two textbooks and contributed chapters to several research books. His tutorial paper "Tom, Dick, and Mary Discover the DFT" was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award in 1998. Deller received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1997 Meritorious Service Award for his six-year service as Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing Magazine, and currently serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. He and his wife Joan have recently returned from China with the second of their adopted daughters, Amelia Tian. Amelia and her sister, Antonia Jiang, now three years old, are both from Jiangxi Province in southeastern PRC. He enjoys fatherhood, personal computers, Michigan summers, and is active in church-related efforts to improve the lives of the urban poor and victims of disaster.