Dr. Elisa Barney Smith is a member of COBR who joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State University in September 1999. She received a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. She then received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering in 1989 and 1998, respectively, also from RPI. From 1989 to 1993 she worked as an engineer at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in New London, CT. In 1993, she had a research internship at the NATO SACLANT Centre in LaSpezia, Italy. Her work at both NUWC and SACLANT Centre involved designing automatic target classification algorithms and systems that utilize passive acoustic data. Dr. Barney Smith is a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers), and was chair of the Boise section of IEEE from 2000-2003. Her current research areas include document text recognition and biomedical image processing. She is currently working with students on the joint fluoroscopy project through COBR and she supervised a senior design team that wrote an EMG processing software package now used in the Intermountain Orthopaedics Sports Medicine and Biomechanics Research Laboratory.