Gibson currently serves as Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Professor of Media Arts & Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, from 1997-2002, and from 1987-1997, he held the J. W. Runyon, Jr. Professorship in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is co-author of the books Digital Compression for Multimedia (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1998) and Introduction to Nonparametric Detection with Applications (Academic Press, 1975 and IEEE Press, 1995) and author of the textbook, Principles of Digital and Analog Communications (Prentice-Hall, second ed., 1993). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Mobile Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 1999), Editor-in-Chief of The Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 2002), and Editor of the book, Multimedia Communications: Directions and Innovations (Academic Press, 2000).