Edward R. Dougherty

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Edward R. Dougherty
Born (1945-09-10) September 10, 1945 (age 76)
New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater Rutgers University, (Ph.D. 1974)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, (B.S. and MS, 1967, 1969)
Known for Nonlinear filtering and image processing
Fuzzy systems
Probabilistic boolean network
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics, electrical engineering, bioinformatics
Institutions Texas A&M University, since 1996, Rochester Institute of Technology,1988-1996, Fairleigh Dickinson University,1972-1988
Doctoral advisor Joanne Elliott

Edward R. Dougherty is an American mathematician, electrical engineer, Robert M. Kennedy '26 Chair, and Distinguished Professor [1] of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. [2] He is also the Scientific Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering. [3] Dougherty is a specialist in nonlinear image processing, small-sample classification problems, and modeling gene regulatory networks. He is the Fellow of IEEE and SPIE.

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Dougherty is the author of 16 books, whose topics range from basic probability books to advanced computational biology and genomic systems engineering. He proposed the Probabilistic Boolean Network (PBN) model for gene regulatory networks. [4] PBNs have been extensively used for intervention and classification in genomic problems. [5] [6] He has also introduced the notion of Bolstered Error Estimation [7] and Coefficient of Determination for Nonlinear Signal Processing. [8]

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  5. Pal, Ranadip; Datta, Aniruddha; Bittner, Michael L.; Dougherty, Edward R. (2005). "Intervention in context-sensitive probabilistic Boolean networks". Bioinformatics. 21 (7): 1211–1218. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti131 . PMID   15531600.
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