George E. Ioup was born on March 26, 1939, in Altoona, PA. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1962 and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1968.
After one-year appointments as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and as an Assistant Professor of Physics at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, he joined the Department of Physics, University of New Orleans (UNO), New Orleans, in 1969. He is now a Professor of Physics and Geophysics in that department. He has held positions as Director of the UNO Geophysical Research Laboratory, Coordinator of the UNO Geophysics Program, and Director of the UNO Center for Energy Resources Management (CERM). He currently serves as Director of UNO at Stennis Space Center, MS, and Associate Director of CERM. His research interests include geophysical, acoustic, and aerospace signal analysis and processing, deconvolution, mathematical digital filtering, and spectral estimation, Fourier and wavelet transforms, higher order correlations and spectra, modeling and simulation, and computational physics.
Dr. Ioup is a member of the American Physical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, the Optical Society of America, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the American Geophysical Union. He is currently serving as President of the Southeastern Geophysical Society. He has received the Amoco Outstanding Educator Award.