David C. Munson
{{Short description|American university professor and administrator}}
{{for|persons of a similar name|David Munson (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| caption = Munson in 2018
| title = 10th President of the
Rochester Institute of Technology
| term_start = {{Start date|2017|07|1}}
| term_end =
| predecessor = William W. Destler
| successor =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Red Oak, Iowa
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| death_place =
| education = University of Delaware (BS)
Princeton University (MS, MA, PhD)
}}
David Clair Munson Jr. is an American electrical engineer who has been serving as the 10th and current president of the Rochester Institute of Technology since 2017. He was the 14th dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering from 2006 to 2016.
Education
Munson received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1975, and his M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1977, 1977, and 1979, respectively.{{Cite news |last=Goodman |first=James |date=2017-01-25 |title=David C. Munson Jr., RIT's new president, brings a broad vision |url=http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/01/25/new-rit-president-announcement/96990294/ |access-date=2017-01-27 |newspaper=Democrat and Chronicle |language=en}}
Career
Munson served the 14th dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering from 2006 to 2016. He also served as a professor of electrical engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan.{{Cite web |url=https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~munson/ |title=David C. Munson, Jr. | Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) @ Michigan |access-date=January 25, 2017 |archive-date=February 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205125959/http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~munson/ |url-status=dead }}
On July 1, 2017 he became the 10th president of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), succeeding William W. Destler.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rit.edu/presidentialsearch/|title=Office of the President}}
Munson's research focuses on signal processing issues in imaging systems. He is the co-founder of InstaRecon, which commercializes fast algorithms for image formation in computer tomography.{{Cite web|url=https://instarecon.com/company/|title=Company {{!}} InstaRecon|website=instarecon.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-02}} He commented on the use of the Lena Image, suggesting researchers should avoiding upsetting colleagues.{{Cite web |title=A Note on Lena |url=http://www.lenna.org/editor.html |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=www.lenna.org}}{{Cite journal |title=A note on Lena |journal=IEEE Transactions on Image Processing |date=1996 |language=en-US |doi=10.1109/tip.1996.8100841 |last1=Munson |first1=David C. |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=3 |bibcode=1996ITIP....5....3M |doi-access=free }} Munson is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and past president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
On April 23, 2024, Munson announced his retirement effective June 30, 2025.{{cite web|title='I have been blessed.' RIT President David Munson to retire in 2025|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2024/04/23/david-munson-rochester-institute-technology-president-retiring/73425723007/ |website=democratandchronicle.com|publisher=Democrat & Chronicle|date=April 23, 2024| access-date=April 23, 2024}}
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