Don H. Johnson received his S.B, S.M, E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1977, he joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University, where he is currently the J.S. Abercrombie Professor Emeritus. Professor Johnson is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Meritorious Service Award, and former President of the Signal Processing Society. His present research activities concern analyzing the canvas supports of master paintings from x-ray images. In 2011, he was appointed Adjunct Research Fellow of the Van Gogh Museum.