Sally L Wood

Sally L. Wood received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University with a minor in psychology driven by interest in the electrophysiological basis of perception. Currently she is the Thomas J. Bannan Professor in Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1985. She has served three three-year terms as chair of that department over a period of 16 years. She is a fellow of the IEEE, and her academic research in signal and image processing has included computational imaging, super-resolution, image reconstruction from projection measurements, three dimensional modeling from image data, and adaptive signal processing for medical and communications applications. Prior joining the faculty at Santa Clara University Dr. Wood worked in research and development in medical imaging, neural systems modeling, and development of automatic reading systems at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Engineering Research and Development Center and at a number of companies. In addition, she was a member of the electrical engineering faculty at Cornell University for a year before relocating to California. From 2008 to 2010 she served as a program director at the National Science Foundation in the Engineering Directorate’s Division of Engineering Education and Research Centers.