Professor Edward Delp has been named the Silicon Valley Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Delp earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1973 and 1975, respectively, and a doctorate from Purdue in 1979. In May 2002, he received an honorary doctor of technology degree from the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Delp is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.

Delp's research interests include image and video compression, multimedia security, medical imaging, multimedia systems, communication and information theory. Various companies and government agencies consulted Delp on topics such as image processing, robot vision, pattern recognition and secure communications. Delp, who has been at Purdue since 1984, also has published more than 250 papers.