Rui de Figueiredo
| Rui de Figueiredo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 April 1929 Panjim, Goa, Portuguese India |
| Died | 22 July 2013 (aged 84) College Station, Texas |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields |
Electrical Engineering Applied Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California at Irvine |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Philippe Le Corbeiller |
| Notable awards | IEEE CAS Society Technical Achievement Award (1994) IEEE CAS Society Mac Van Valkenburg Award (2002) Kapitsa Medal (2009) |
Rui José Pacheco de Figueiredo (19 April 1929 – 22 July 2013) was an electrical engineer, mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and applied mathematics at the University of California, Irvine.
Figueiredo was born on 19 April 1929 in Panjim, Goa where he grew up the second of four boys. His parents were João Manuel Pacheco de Figueiredo and Maria Alcina da Rocha Pinto. He was identified very early on as academically gifted and musically talented. From the ages of four to nine he was home schooled in Portuguese by tutors in various subjects including maths, science, and music. At the age of nine he entered the Liceu where he continued his studies. In 1945, professors from the Trinity College of Music in London assessed his piano performance, commenting that his play of the scales was "as graceful as the gliding of skates on virgin ice." He acquired the title of Licenciate of the Trinity College and was awarded a fully funded scholarship to pursue music at the school in London. After careful consideration, his parents advised him to decline the offer as they felt he was too young, at age 16, to live alone in London. After graduating from high school, he left India to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a BS degree in 1950, and an MS degree in 1952. He subsequently received a PhD from Harvard University in 1959.
Figueiredo worked as a consultant for the Portuguese Atomic Energy Commission while finishing his PhD, and upon graduation, became the head of the Applied Maths and Physics Division of the Nuclear Research Centre, in Sacavém, Portugal. In 1962, he returned to the United States to take a tenured position as an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. In 1965, he became a Full Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Rice University. In 1990, Figueiredo moved to Irvine, California, where he was a Professor in both the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and Mathematics Department at the University of California at Irvine. He also was founder and Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications at UCI.
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