Leah Jamieson

Leah H. Jamieson (born 27 August 1949) is an American engineering educator and electrical and computer engineer at Purdue University, where she is the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and served as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering from 2006 to 2017. She studied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took her master's degrees and doctorate at Princeton University, and has taught at Purdue since 1976. Her research covers speech analysis and recognition and the design and analysis of parallel processing algorithms, applied to speech, image and signal processing. She has written more than 200 papers and co-edited two books on parallel algorithms and specialized parallel computers. In 1995 she and her colleague Edward J. Coyle founded Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), a service-learning design program now run at many universities. She was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005 and served as the 2007 President and CEO of the IEEE.