H. Vincent Poor (Ph.D. in EECS, Princeton, 1977) is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton, where he is involved in research and teaching in the areas of statistical signal processing and stochastic analysis, and their applications in wireless networking, finance and related fields. He is also affiliated with Princeton’s Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics and its Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. From 1977 until joining the Princeton faculty in 1990, he
was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also held visiting ppointments at a number of universities and research institutions in the USA and abroad, including recently Imperial College (London), Stanford and Harvard.

Dr. Poor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Optical Society of America, and other scientific and technical organizations. He is a past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Recent recognition of his work includes the Joint Paper Award of the IEEE Communications and Information Theory
Societies (2001), the NSF Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (2002), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002-03), the Princeton SEAS Distinguished Teacher Award (2003), the Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Alumnus Award (2005), and the IEEE Education Medal (2005).

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