Edward R. Dougherty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetEdward R. Dougherty
American mathematician
Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1945
Place of Birth: New Jersey, United States
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Edward R. Dougherty
- Edward R.
- Dougherty is an American mathematician, electrical engineer, Robert M.
- Kennedy '26 Chair, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
- He is also the Scientific Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering.
- 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. Dougherty is the author of 16 books ranging from basic probability books to advanced computational biology and genomic systems engineering ones.
- He proposed the Probabilistic Boolean Network (PBN) model for gene regulatory networks.
- PBNs have been extensively used for intervention and classification in genomic problems.
- He has also introduced the notion of Bolstered Error Estimation and Coefficient of Determination for Nonlinear Signal Processing.
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