Richard Lyons is a retired DSP engineer and lawn sprinkler system repairman.

He has written over 30 articles and conference papers on DSP topics, and authored Amazon.com's top selling DSP book "Understanding Digital Signal Processing, 3rd Ed."

He served as an Associate Editor at IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, for nine years, where he created and edited the "DSP Tips & Tricks" column.

Lyons is the editor of, and contributor to, the book "Streamlining Digital Signal Processing-A Tricks of the Trade Guidebook, 2nd Ed." (Wiley & Sons).

As the winner of two IEEE Signal Processing Society awards he co-authored the book "The Essential Guide to Digital Signal Processing" (Prentice Hall).