Treichler elected to National Academy of Engineering

John Treichler ’70, adjunct distinguished visiting professor at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest honors that can be conferred upon a U.S. scientist or engineer.

John Treichler

The president of Raytheon Applied Signal Technology of Sunnyvale, Calif., Treichler earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Rice in 1970 and recently returned to the university as a member of the faculty.

Treichler, one of 80 new academy members named this week, was elected for “contributions to digital signal processing and its applications to national intelligence gathering.”

“Digital signal processing (DSP) has been a perennial strength even before John was a student here at Rice,” said Ned Thomas, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering. “Over the years, his prowess in DSP has significantly contributed to our country’s security. His election to the NAE is a very great recognition for both John and for Rice.”

He served as a line officer aboard
destroyers in the Navy from 1970 to 1974 before earning his Ph.D. at Stanford University. In
1977 he joined ARGOSystems in Sunnyvale prior to founding Applied Signal Technology
Inc. in 1984. The company, which builds advanced signal processing equipment for the U.S. government, is now a business unit of Raytheon Inc.

Treichler was elected a fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1991 and was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Technical Achievement Award in 2000.