James Flanagan, DSc, is Vice President for Research at Rutgers University.  He is also Director of the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) and Board of Governors Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

Rutgers is the State University of New Jersey, with an enrollment of 50,000 and a faculty and staff of 8,000.  CAIP is an advanced technology center sponsored jointly by industry and government.  It conducts research in parallel and distributed computing, image and speech processing, graphics and data visualization, human/machine communications, robotics, and software engineering

Dr. Flanagan joined Rutgers after extended service in research and research management at AT&T Bell Laboratories.  He was previously Director of Information Principles Research, with responsibilities in digital communications and information systems. He holds the Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He previously received a Master of Science degree from MIT, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State University, which he earned following service in the U.S. Army.

Dr. Flanagan's personal research has centered in voice communications, computer techniques and electroacoustic systems.  He has contributed to signal coding algorithms now in wide use for telecommunications and voice-mail systems, and to currently-evolving techniques for automatic speech synthesis and recognition.  He invented autodirective microphone arrays for teleconferencing, and pioneered the use of digital computers for acoustic signal processing.