- Professor Emeritus, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Robert M. Kennedy 26 Chair Professor
- Distinguished Professor
- Phone: 979-862-8154
- Email: e-dougherty@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 214G
- Website: Research Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ – 1974
- M.S., Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ – 1986
- M.S., Mathematics, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ – 1969
- B.S., Mathematics, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ – 1967
Research Interests
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Genomic Signal Processing:
- Gene-expression-based cancer classification
- Genetic regulatory networks
- Microarray analysis
- Small-sample classification and error estimation
Image Analysis:
- Mathematical morphology
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Statistical filter design
- Granulometries and image texture
Awards & Honors
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- University Distinguished Lecturer, Texas A&M University – 2008
- Robert M. Kennedy '26 Chair – 2007
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Tampere University of Technology – 2007
- Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, Association of Former Students – 2005
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) President's Award – 2004
- Fellow, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) – 2002
- Halliburton Professor, Texas A&M University College of Engineering – 2001
- Fellow, International Society of Optical Engineering – 2000
Selected Publications
- Choudhary, A., Hua, J., Bittner, M. L., and E. R. Dougherty, The Effect of Population Contexts on Classifier Performance, Biological Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, 495-517, December, 2008.
- Qian, X., and E. R. Dougherty, Effect of Function Perturbation on the Steady-State Distribution of Genetic Regulatory Networks: Optimal Structural Intervention, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2008.928089, Vol. 56, No. 10, Part 1, 4966-4975, October, 2008.
- Vahedi, G., Faryabi, B., Chamberland, J-F., Datta, A, and E. R. Dougherty, Intervention in Gene Regulatory Networks via a Stationary Mean-First-Passage-Time Control Policy, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 10, 2319-2331, October, 2008.
- Hanczar, B., and E. R. Dougherty, Classification with Reject Option in Gene Expression Data, Bioinformatics, Vol. 24, 1889-1895, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn349, September, 2008.
- Qian, L., Wang, H., and E. R. Dougherty, Inference of Noisy Nonlinear Differential Equation Models for Gene Regulatory Networks using Genetic Programming and Kalman Filtering, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 7, 3327-3339, July, 2008.