David P. Casasent

David P. Casasent was a professor emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, holding the G. Westinghouse Chair and directing the Laboratory for Optical Data Processing.[1][2] He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and had a prolific 40-year career at CMU starting in 1969, authoring books and advancing optical image processing.[1][2] A past president of SPIE (1993) and the International Neural Network Society (1999), he was a Fellow of SPIE, IEEE, and the Optical Society of America, and died at age 72 on November 16 near Pittsburgh.[1]