A memorial for Nirmal K. Bose, HRB-Systems professor of electrical engineering, will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6, at Worship Hall in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on campus.
Bose, 69, died on Nov. 22, during a sabbatical trip to the University of Wuppertal in Germany. The cause of death was a heart attack.
Bose was a member of the Penn State faculty since 1986. His research centered on the development of multidimensional systems theory and applied it to the processing and coding of degraded signals. Specifically, he investigated the restoration and high resolution reconstruction of blurred and noisy images and suggested a computationally efficient scheme for tracking multiple targets in clutter.
Bose's other research interests included robust systems, combinatorics and graph theory, artificial neural networks and neurofuzzy computing.
He was a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and held memberships in the American Society of Engineering Education and the Sigma Xi scientific research society. Bose was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing and an associate editor of IEEE's Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
Bose's awards include the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Merit Award, the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award and the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society's Outstanding Research Award.
He received his Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, his master's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and his doctorate in electrical engineering from Syracuse University.
He is survived by his wife, Chandra Bose, and two daughters, Meenekshi and Enakshi Bose.