Terrance West holds a B.S in electrical and computer engineering, a MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University.  He is a native of Meridian, Mississippi and is the first in his family to earn a college degree.  In 2007 he was supported by the IEEE-GRSS minority travel program for his oral presentation titled "Multiclassifiers and Decision Fusion in the Wavelet Domain for Exploitation of Hyperspectral Data."  The conference was held in Barcelona, Spain.  He is currently an engineer with the U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC).