A research and teaching position in the fields of imaging and signal processing.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Minh N. Do, Prof. David C. Munson, Jr.

• GPA: 3.6 / 4.0
• Passed Preliminary Exam, November 2005
• Passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam, April 2002

M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, October 2002

The University of Iowa
B.S.E., Electrical And Computer Engineering, May 2000

• GPA: 3.74 / 4.0

Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Research Assistant: 1/2001 - present
With Prof. Minh N. Do and Prof. David C. Munson, Jr.

• Develop a new framework for the autofocus problem in synthetic aperture radar (SAR), where conditions in the problem statement are explicitly characterized, leading to new algorithms offering improved performance.
• Conduct a theoretical analysis of sharpness optimization approaches for SAR autofocus.
• Develop new approaches for image reconstruction in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including joint estimation of the field map and image, and coil sensitivity function estimation in parallel MRI.
• Supervise undergraduate research in audio sensor array processing, for the application of immersive recording systems offering dynamic playback; characterize the sound field spectrum, and design adaptive interpolation schemes.
• Participate in the DARPA sponsored "Design and Optimization of Passive and Active Imaging Radar" project; create autofocus approaches for passive radar.

University of Michigan
Visiting Researcher, Summer 2004

• Explore new autofocus approaches for passive and active radar.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Teaching Assistant: "Digital Signal Processing Laboratory"
(ECE 420), 8/2002 - 5/2004

Teaching Assistant: "Fundamentals of Engineering Acoustics"
(ECE 473), 1/2002 - 5/2002

Teaching Assistant: "Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering"
(ECE 110), 8/2000 - 12/2000

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow for 2005-06 Academic Year

Journals
R. L. Morrison, M. N. Do, and D. C. Munson, "MCA: A Multichannel Approach to SAR Autofocus," to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

R. L. Morrison, M. N. Do, and D. C. Munson, "SAR Autofocus by Sharpness Optimization: A Theoretical Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, submitted 2005.

Conferences
R.L. Morrison, Jr. and M. N. Do, "Multichannel Autofocus Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2006, Atlanta, GA, to appear.

H. M. Nguyen, R. L. Morrison, Jr., B. P. Sutton, and M. N. Do, " Joint Estimation in MRI using Harmonic Retrieval Methods," IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, April 2006.

R. L. Morrison, Jr., and M. N. Do, "A Multichannel Approach to Metric-Based SAR Autofocus," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 2005.

R. L. Morrison, Jr., D. C. Munson, Jr., and M. N. Do, "Avoiding Local Minima In Entropy-Based SAR Autofocus," in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, St. Louis, Missouri, 2003.

R. L. Morrison, Jr., and D. C. Munson, Jr., "An Experimental Study Of A New Entropy-Based SAR Autofocus Technique," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, 2002, vol. II, pp. 441-444.

Theses
R. L. Morrison, Jr., "Entropy-Based Autofocus For Synthetic Aperture Radar," Masters Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Prof. David C. Munson advisor, October 2002.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ECE 480)
Vector Space Signal Processing (ECE 513)
Information Theory (ECE 563)
Random Processes (ECE 534)
Signal Detection and Estimation (ECE 561)
Advanced Digital Signal Processing (ECE 551), (ECE 410)
Wavelets in Signal Processing (ECE 597-MD)
Digital Imaging (ECE 558)
Image Processing (ECE 547)
Control System Theory and Design (ECE 515)
Communications II (ECE 461)
Introduction to Optimization (ECE 490)
Fundamentals of Engineering Acoustics (ECE 473)
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (ECE 420)
Real Analysis (MATH 447)

Born January 19, 1977 in Voorhees, New Jersey.