HKN Headquarters is proud to name Dr. Barry J. Sullivan as editor of THE BRIDGE magazine. Dr. Sullivan has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, publications chair of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and local arrangements chair for the Digital Signal Processing Workshop. He has published over forty papers on topics in signal reconstruction and image processing.

Dr. Sullivan is currently Director of Content Development for the International Engineering Consortium. Prior to joining the IEC, he spent nine years at Ameritech, where he served as Director of Emerging Technologies. He has developed and delivered continuing education courses in communications technologies, and he guided the technology strategy for a start-up company delivering packet voice services. He was a full-time member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University for more than six years, and has taught there as an adjunct faculty member. He also worked as a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories. He received the B.S.E.E. and M.S. degrees from Marquette University, and the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, all in electrical engineering.

Dr. Sullivan is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE. He received the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society Paper Award and a Certificate of Merit from the Radiological Society of North America. He received eleven Ameritech and SBC patent filing awards.