Thomas Huang is the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of the Coordinated Science Lab at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He has garnered many professional honors including the Honda Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal. He holds an M.S. and Sc.D. in electrical engineering from M.I.T.