Grace A. Clark is an American

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ...

and

acoustics Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician ...

researcher, formerly a researcher at the

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

and an engineering consultant through her firm Grace Clark Signal Sciences in

Livermore, California Livermore (formerly Livermorès, Livermore Ranch, and Nottingham) is a city in Alameda County, California. With a 2020 population of 87,955, Livermore is the most populous city in the Tri-Valley. It is located on the eastern edge of Californ ...

Education and career

Clark is a graduate of

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

. After continuing at Purdue for a master's degree, she completed a Ph.D. at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

. After working as a researcher for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for more than 35 years, she retired in 2013.

Recognition

In 2007 Clark was elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions in block adaptive filtering".

Personal life

Clark is also a guitar, banjo, and

Dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

player, specializing in western swing and

bluegrass music Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as ''traditional music'', ''traditional folk music'', ''contemporary folk music'', ''vernacular music,'' or ...

References

External links

Grace Clark & Swingitude
Clark's music site {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Grace Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Acoustical engineers American electrical engineers American women engineers Purdue University alumni University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff Fellow Members of the IEEE 21st-century American women