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Bio: Patrice Abry was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France in 1966.
He received the degree of Professeur-Agrege de Sciences Physiques, in 1989 at Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan and completed a PhD in Physics and Signal Processing, at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and Universite Claude-Bernard Lyon I, in 1994. Since october 95, he is a permanent CNRS researcher, at the laboratoire de Physique of Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Patrice Abry received the AFCET-MESR-CNRS prize for best PhD in Signal Processing for the years 93-94 and is the author of a book \"Ondelettes et Turbulences - Multiresolution, algorithmes de decompositions, invariance dechelle et signaux de pression\", published in october 97, by Diderot, editeur des Sciences et des Arts, Paris, France. He also is the coeditor of a book in French entitled \"Lois dechelle, Fractales et Ondelettes\", Hermes, Paris, France, 2002. His current research interests include wavelet-based analysis and modelling of scaling phenomena and related topics (self-similarity, stable processes, multi-fractal, 1/f processes, long-range dependence, local regularity of processes, inifinitely divisible cascades, departures from exact scale invariance). Hydrodynamic turbulence and the analysis and modelling of computer network teletraffic are the main applications under current investigation. He is also involved in the study of baroreflex sensitivity with a French
medical group at University Claude Bernard Lyon I. He recently started a wavelet based detection/analysis of Acoustic Gravity Waves in Ionosphere.
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Bio : Mats Bengtsson is an Associate Professor at the Signal Processing lab of
the School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm, Sweden. He received the M.S. degree in computer science from
Linköping University in 1991 and the Tech. Lic. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm, Sweden, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2007, he was
appointed Docent in Signal Processing at KTH. From 1991 to 1995,
he was with Ericsson Telecom AB Karlstad and from 2000 to 2006,
he was a Research Associate at KTH. |
| Focus: Statistical signal processing for antenna arrays and communications,
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Bio: Olivier Besson received the PhD Degree in Signal Processing in 1992, and
the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 1998, both from Institut
National Polytechnique, Toulouse. From October 1993 to September 2007, he
was a Professor with the Department of Avionics and Systems of ENSICA. From
October 2007, he is with the Department of Electronics, Optronics and Signal
of ISAE (a merger between ENSICA and SupAero). His research interests are in
the general area of statistical signal and array processing with particular
interest to robustness issues in detection/estimation problems for radar and
communications.
Dr. Besson is a past Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is a member of the
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee, and served as
the co-technical chairman of the IEEE SAM2004 workshop. He has held visiting
positions at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, and Università del
Salento, Lecce, Italy. |
| Focus: Statistical array processing, Space-Time Adaptive Processing,
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Bio : Thierry Blu was born in Orl?ans, France, in 1964. He received the "Dipl?me d''ing?nieur" from ?cole Polytechnique, France, in 1986 andfrom T?l?com Paris (ENST), France, in 1988. In 1996, he obtainedthe Ph.D in electrical engineering from ENST for a study on iteratedrational filterbanks, applied to wideband audio coding.
He is with the Biomedical Imaging Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, on leave from FranceTelecom R&D center in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. At EPFL, heteaches the theory of Signals and Systems for Microengineering and
Life Science students.
Dr. Blu was the recipient of the 2003 best paper award (SP Theory and Methods) from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Between 2002and 2006, he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing. |
| Focus: Digital Signal Processing, Wavelets, Sampling/Interpolation |
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Bio: Marcelo G. S. Bruno received the bachelor and master degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the
Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh PA. From January 1999 until September 2001, he was a
postdoctoral fellow at the Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory
of the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo. Since October
2001, he has been affiliated with Instituto Tecnologico de
Aeronautica ITA, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, where he is
currently an Associate Professor. He was also a visiting research scholar at
the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon
University in the summer of 1999, and in the winters of 2003 and 2005. Dr.
Bruno\'s research interests are in statistical signal/image processing,
particularly Markov random fields (Mrfs), hidden Markov models (HMMs),
particle filters/sequential Monte Carlo methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo
(MCMC), Bayesian networks, and their applications in target detection and
tracking, image processing, computer vision, mobile robotics, sensor fusion,
and telecommunications. Dr. Bruno is a member of several IEEE Societies and
served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. |
| Focus: Machine Learning and Statistical Signal Processing |
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Bio : Xiaodong Cai received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China,
the M.Eng. degree from the National Univesity of Singapore, Singapore,
and the PhD degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey,
all in electrical engineering. He was a member of technical staff at
Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, and a senior system engineer
in Sony Technology Center, California, in 2001. He was a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, from NOvember 2001
to August 2004. Since Augutst 2004, he has been with the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univesity of Miami, Coral Gables,
Florida, where he currently is an assitant professor. His research interests
are statistical signal processing, wireless communications, bioinformatics
and computational biology. |
| Focus: Signal processing for communications, bioinformatics and
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Bio: Jonathon Chambers is a Cardiff Professorial Fellow (Research Professor) of Digital Signal Processing and the Director of the Centre of Digital Signal Processing, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. He leads a team of researchers involved in the analysis, design and evaluation of novel algorithms for digital signal processing with application in acoustics, biomedicine and wireless communications. Dr. Chamber’s research contributions are in the areas of adaptive and blind signal processing. He has authored/co-authored more than 180 conference and journal publications, and has been the advisor/co-advisor for 20 PhD students. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Signal Processing and Circuits & Systems, and is a past chairman of the IEE Professional Group E5, UK, Signal Processing. He is currently also serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and as the University Liaison on the EURASIP ADCOM Committee.
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Bio : Biao Chen received the M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering in 1998 and 1999, respectively, from the University of
Connecticut. From 1999 to 2000 he was with Cornell University as a
Post-Doc associate. Since 2000, he has been with Syracuse University
which he is currently an Assistant Professor. He served as an associate
editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
(2005-2008). He is an associate editor for the IEEE Communications
Letters and a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Sensor Array and
Multi-Channel (SAM) Technical Committee. He is the recipient of an NSF
CAREER Award in 2006. His research interests include signal processing,
communication and information theory for multi-user wireless systems.
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Bio: Philippe Ciblat was born in Paris, France, in 1973.
He received the Engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecommunications (ENST) and the DEA degree (french equivalent to the
M.Sc. degree) in automatic control and signal processing from the
Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, both in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree
from Universite de Marne-la-Vallee, France, in 2000. He eventually
receive the HDR degree from Universite de Marne-la-Vallee, France, in
2007.
In 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Universite Catholique de
Louvain, Belgium. At the end of 2001, he joined the Departement de
Communications et Electronique at ENST, Paris, France, as an Associate
Professor. His research areas include statistical and digital signal
processing (blind equalization, frequency estimation, and asymptotic
performance analysis) and signal processing for digital communications
(synchronization for OFDM modulations and the CDMA scheme, access technique
and localization for UWB, cooperative communications and global systems
design).
From 2004 to 2007, he served as Associate Editor for IEEE Communications
Letters. |
| Focus: Signal processing for communications |
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Bio : Mark Coates received the B.E. degree (first class honours) in computer
systems engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1995, and
a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Cambridge,
U.K., in 1999. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at McGill University,
Montreal, Canada. He was awarded the Texas Instruments Postdoctoral
Fellowship in 1999 and was a research associate and lecturer at Rice
University, Texas, from 1999-2001. His research interests include
communication and sensor/actuator networks, statistical signal processing,
causal analysis, and Bayesian and Monte Carlo inference. |
| Focus: Statistical signal processing, communication |
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Bio: Tim Davidson received the B.Eng.(Hons.I) degree in
Electronic Engineering from The University of
Western Australia (UWA), Perth, in 1991 and the
D.Phil. degree in Engineering Science from the
The University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., in 1995. He is currently an associate professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada,
where he holds the (Tier II) Canada Research Chair
in Communication Systems. His research interests
are in signal processing, communications and control,
with current activity focused on the design signal
processing systems for single and multi-user digital
communication over wired and wireless media. Previously,
he has held research positions at the Communications
Research Laboratory at McMaster University, and the
Australian Telecommunications Research Institute at
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.
Dr. Davidson was awarded the 1991 J. A. Wood
Memorial Prize (for "the most outstanding [UWA] graduand"
in the pure and applied sciences), and the 1991 Rhodes
Scholarship for Western Australia.
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| Focus: Multicarrier, multi-antenna and multi-user
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Bio : Manuel Davy was born in Caen, France, in 1972. He received the Engineer
degree in electrical engineering and Signal Processing in 1996 from the
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, and a PhD in Signal Processing from
the University of Nantes in September 2000. From 2000 to 2002, he was a
research associate at the Signal Processing Group, University of
Cambridge, UK. He is currently a chargé de recherches at the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Lille, France, and
member of the INRIA-FUTURS "SequeL" team. Since 1998, he published a
book, about 15 journal papers and 40 conference papers. In 2003 and
2004, he co-organized the Machine Learning Summer School. From 2002 to
2006, he was principal investigator in four industrial research
contracts. His current research activities are centered around Machine
Learning, Kernel algorithms, Bayesian/Monte Carlo Methods for signal
processing (Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Particle Filtering, Sequential
Monte Carlo) and reinforcement learning. His preferred application
fields are audio and multi-sensor data fusion.
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Bio: Subhrakanti Dey
(M''''''''96) was born in Calcutta, India, in 1968. He received the B.Tech. and
M.Tech. degrees from the Department of Electronics and Electrical
Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,
India, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the
Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences
and Engineering,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1996.
He has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, since February 2000, first
as a Senior Lecturer, and then as an Associate Professor. From September
1995 to September 1997 and September 1998 to February 2000, he was a
postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Systems Engineering,
Australian National University. From September 1997 to September 1998, he
was a post-doctoral Research Associate with the Institute for Systems
Research, University of Maryland, College Park. His current research
interests include signal processing for telecommunications, wireless
communications and networks, performance analysis of communication
networks, stochastic and adaptive estimation and control, and statistical
and adaptive signal processing.
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Bio : Aleksandar Dogandzic received the Dipl. Ing. degree (summa cum laude)
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in
1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and
computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in
1997 and 2001, respectively, under the guidance of Professor Arye
Nehorai. In August 2001, he joined the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, as an Assistant
Professor. His research interests are in statistical signal
processing theory and applications. Dr. Dogandzic received the 2003
Young Author Best Paper Award and 2004 Signal Processing Magazine Best
Paper Award, both by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In 2006, he
received the CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation. At Iowa
State University, he was awarded the 2006-2007 Litton Industries
Assistant Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is
a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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| Focus: Statistical signal processing, signal processing for sensor networks,
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Bio: Bogdan Dumitrescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1962.
He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1987 and 1993, respectively,
from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania.
He is now a Professor with the Department of Automatic Control and
Computers,
Politehnica University of Bucharest.
He held visiting research positions at
Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble, France (1992, 1994, 1996)
and Tampere International Center for Signal Processing,
Tampere University of Technology, Finland (since 1999).
He is the author of the book Positive trigonometric polynomials and
signal processing applications.
His scientific interests are in optimization, numerical methods,
and their applications to signal processing.
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Bio : Yonina C. Eldar received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1995 and the
B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 both from Tel-Aviv
University (TAU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science in 2001 from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.
From January 2002 to July 2002 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Digital Signal Processing Group at MIT. She is currently an Associate
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. She is also a Research
Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.
From 1992 through 1996 she was in the program for outstanding students
in TAU. In 1998 she held the Rosenblith Fellowship for study in Electrical
Engineering at MIT, and in 2000 she held an IBM Research Fellowship. She is
currently a Horev Fellow in the Leaders in Science and Technology program
at the Technion, and an Alon Fellow. In 2004, she was awarded the Wolf
Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, and in 2005
the Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship. She is a member of the IEEE Signal
Processing Theory and Methods technical committee and an Associate Editor
for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. |
| Focus: Statistical Signal Processing, Biomedical Signal
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Bio: Alper T. Erdogan was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1971. He
received his B.S. degree from METU, Ankara, Turkey, and the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, CA USA, all in E.E., in
1993, 1995 and 1999 respectively. He was a principal research
engineer in Globespan-Virata Corporation (formerly Excess Bandwidth
and Virata Corporations) from September 1999 to November 2001. He
has been an assistant professor in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering Department of Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, since
January 2002. His research interests include Wireless and Wire-line
Communications, Adaptive Signal Processing, Blind Source Separation,
Independent Component Analysis, Convex Optimization, Systems Theory,
and Information Theory.
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Bio : Deniz Erdogmus is an assistant professor at the BME and CSEE departments of OGI School of Science & Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University. His research interests broadly include: Adaptive, nonlinear, and statistical signal processing; Information theory and its applications to
signal processing, learning, and adaptation theories; Biomedical signal processing, specifically brain interface applications, and radiation
therapy for cancer. at Oregon Health & Science University. |
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Bio: Patrick Flandrin (Fellow 2002) was born in Bron, France, in 1955.
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received the Engineer degree from Institut de Chimie et Physique
Industrielles
de Lyon in 1978, the \\\"Docteur-Ingenieur\\\" degree and the \\\"Doctorat d\\\'Etat es
Sciences Physiques\\\" from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1982
and 1987, respectively. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) in 1982, where he is currently a senior researcher.
Until
1990, he was with ICPI Lyon, where he has been Head of the Signal Processing
Department from 1987 to 1990. Since 1991, he has been with the Physics
Department at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, in charge of the group
\\\"Signals, Systems and Physics\\\" until 2004. In 1998, he spent one semester in
Cambridge, UK, as an invited long-term resident of the Isaac Newton
Institute
for Mathematical Sciences and, from 2002 to 2005, he has been Director of
the
CNRS (nation-wide) cooperative structure \\\"GdR Information, Signaux, Images
et
Vision.\\\" His research interests include mainly nonstationary signal
processing
at large (with emphasis on time-frequency and time-scale methods) and the
study of scaling processes. Dr. Flandrin was awarded the Philip Morris
Scientific Prize in Mathematics in 1991, the SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award in
2001
and the Prix Michel Monpetit from the French Academy of Sciences in 2001.
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Bio : Tryphon T. Georgiou graduated in 1979 from the National Technical University
of Athens, Greece, from where he received the Diploma in Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering. He then joined the Center for Mathematical System
Theory of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He received his
Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida in 1983. Subsequently, he served
on the faculty of Florida Atlantic (1983-1986) and Iowa State (1986-1989)
Universities. Since 1989 he has been with the University of Minnesota where
he holds the Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair of Electrical Engineering and is a
co-director of the Center for Control Science and Dynamical Systems since
1990. He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control (1991-1992), the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
(1988-1995), and the Systems and Control Letters (1995-present). He became a
fellow of the IEEE in the year 2000 for his contributions to the theory of
robust control. He was elected and has served on the Board of Governors of
the Control Systems Society of the IEEE (2002-2005). He has received the
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
three times, for the years 1992, 1999, and 2003. In 1992 and in 1999 he
received the award for joint work with Prof. Malcolm C. Smith (Cambridge
Univ., U.K.), and in 2003 for joint work with Professors Chris Byrnes
(Washington Univ., St. Louis) and Anders Lindquist (KTH, Stockholm). His
research interests lie in the general areas of applied mathematics,
statistical signal processing, information theory, mathematical systems
theory and robust control. Within the area of statistical signal processing
his research focuses on issues related to distributed sensing and filtering,
space and time-series analysis, spectral uncertainty and high resolution
spectral estimation. |
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Bio: Mounir Ghogho received the M.S. degree in 1993 and the PhD degree in 1997, both in Signal and Image Processing from the National Polytechnic Institute (INP), Touloue, France. He was an EPSRC Research Fellow with the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, from September 1997 to November 2001. Since December 2001, he has been a faculty member with the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds. He held a visiting Faculty Position with the Ecole National Superieure d\\\'Ingenieurs de Construction Aeronautiques (ENSICA), Toulouse, in 2000, and four visiting positions with the Army Research laboratory, Adelphi, MD, between 1998 and 2000. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from December
2001 to December 2004. He is currently a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee. His research interests are in signal processing for communications and sensor networks. Dr Ghogho was awarded a five-year Royal Academy of Engineering Research
Fellowship in September 2000.
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Bio : Christine Guillemot is currently Directeur de Recherche at INRIA, in
charge of the TEMICS research group dealing with image modelling,
processing, video communication and watermarking. She holds a PhD degree
from ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications) Paris. From
1985 to October 1997, she has been with FRANCE TELECOM/CNET, where she has
been involved in various projects in the domain of coding for TV, HDTV and
multimedia applications. From january 1990 to mid 1991, she has worked at
Bellcore, NJ, USA, as a visiting scientist. Her research interests are
signal and image processing, video coding, and joint source and channel
coding for video transmission over the Internet and over wireless networks.
She co-authored 13 patents, 6 chapters in books on wavelets and on
multimedia communication, (co-)authored around 40 journal publications and
100 conference articles. She has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans.
on Image Processing (2000-2003), and for IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology (2004-2006). She is a member of the IEEE IMDSP and of
the IEEE MMSP technical committees. |
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Bio: Walid Hachem was born in Bhamdoun, Lebanon, in 1967. He received the
Engineering degree in Telecommunications from St Joseph University (ESIB),
Beirut, Lebanon, in 1989, the Masters degree in signal processing from
Télécom Paris (ENST), France, in 1990, the PhD degree in signal processing
from Université de Marne-La-Vallée, France, in 2000 and the Habilitation Ã
Diriger des Recherches from Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay), in 2006.
He was with Philips T.R.T., working on telephone modems, and then joined
FERMA, working on DSP processing for voice servers. In 2001, he joined Ecole
Supérieure d\\\'Electricité (Supélec) as an assistant then associate professor.
He is currently a CNRS researcher at ENST.
His research interests concern the asymptotic analysis of multiuser systems
based on the study of large random matrices, channel estimation and
synchronization for multicarrier systems, and cooperative radio networks.
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Bio : Alfred Hanssen received the Ph.D. degree in theoretical plasma physics in
1992 from the University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway. He is currently
Professor of Physics (signal processing) at the University of Tromso, and
he is a Senior R&D Advisor for Fugro-Geoteam, Oslo, Norway. From 1993 to
1994, he was with the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of
Oslo, Norway. From 1994 to 1999, he was an Associate Professor at the
University of Tromso, and in 1999, he was appointed a Professor at the same
university. Alfred has held visiting positions at Max-Planck-Institute fur
Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (1988-1989); Theoretical Division, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (1991); European Commission -
Joint Research Center, Space Applications Institute, Ispra, Italy (1996);
and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO (2001-2002). His current research interests are
in statistical signal processing, nonstationary random processes and
inhomogeneous random fields, sensor array and multichannel signal
processing, seismic imaging, audio, music and electroacoustics. Alfred has
served in Technical Program Committees, and had other leading functions for
many international conferences and workshops organized by IEEE and others.
Professor Hanssen is a previous Member of IEEE Technical Committee for
Sensor Arrays and Multichannel Signal Processing (2003-2005). Professor
Hanssen is a past Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal of Wireless
Communications and Networking (2003-2006), and a past Associate Editor
for IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2005-2007). At present, he serves as an
Associate Editor for EURASIP Signal Processing, for Research Letters in
Signal Processing, and for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Alfred
was a recipient of an Outstanding Young Investigator award and grant from
the Research Council of Norway, in 2004, and in 2007, he received the
Science Communication Award from the University of Tromso. |
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Bio: Andreas Jakobsson received his M.Sc. from Lund Institute of Technology and
his Ph.D. in Signal Processing from Uppsala University in 1993 and 2000,
respectively. Since, he has held positions with Global IP Sound AB, the
Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and King"s College London; he has
also been a visiting researcher at Brigham Young University, Stanford
University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and University of California,
San Diego. He is currently Professor of Signal Processing at the Dept. of
Electrical Engineering of Karlstad
University, Sweden. He also holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at
Cardiff University, UK. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE, and an
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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Bio : James Lam received a first class BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1983. He was awarded the Ashbury Scholarship, the A.H. Gibson Prize and the H. Wright Baker Prize for his academic performance. From the University of Cambridge, he obtained the MPhil and PhD degrees in control engineering in 1985 and 1988, respectively. His postdoctoral research was carried out in the Australian National University between 1990 and 1992. He is a Scholar and Fellow of the Croucher Foundation. Dr. Lam is now a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. Prior to that, he held faculty positions at now the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Melbourne. Professor Lam is a Chartered Mathematician and Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the IEE. He is an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Control, the International Journal of Systems Science, the Journal of Sound and Vibration, the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, an editorial member of the IET Control Theory and Applications. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEE Proceedings: Control Theory and Applications and the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Design. His research interests include reduced-order modelling, delay systems, descriptor systems, stochastic systems, multidimensional systems, robust control and filtering, fault detection, and reliable
control. He has published numerous research articles in these areas
and co-authored a monograph entitled Robust Control and Filtering of
Singular Systems (Springer: 2006). |
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Bio: Erik G. Larsson is Professor and Head of the Division for Communication Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) at Linkoping University (LiU) in Linkoping, Sweden. He joined LiU in September 2007. He has previously been Associate Professor (Docent) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, and Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and the George Washington University, USA. His main professional interests are within the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. He has published some 50 papers on these topics, he is co-author of the textbook Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003) and he holds 10 patents on wireless technology.
He is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society SAM and SPCOM technical committees. |
| Focus: signal processing for communications, statistical signal
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Bio : Amir Leshem (SM\\\'06) received the B.Sc.(cum laude) in mathematics and
physics,
the M.Sc. (cum laude) in mathematics, and the Ph.D. in mathematics all from
the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1986,1990 and 1998
respectively.
From 1998 to 2000 he was with Faculty of Information Technology and
Systems,
Delft university of technology, The Netherlands, as a postdoctoral fellow
working on algorithms for the reduction of terrestrial electromagnetic
interference in radio-astronomical radio telescope antenna arrays and signal
processing for communication. From 2000 to 2003 he was director of advanced
technologies with Metalink Broadband where he was responsible for research
and development of new DSL and wireless MIMO modem technologies and served
as a member of ITU-T SG15, ETSI TM06, NIPP-NAI, IEEE 802.3 and 802.11. From
2000 to 2002 he was also a visiting researcher at Delft University of
Technology. He is one of the founders of the new school of electrical and
computer engineering at Bar-Ilan university where he is currently an
Associate Professor and head of the Signal Processing track. From 2003 to
2005 he also was the technical manager of the U-BROAD consortium developing
technologies to provide 100 Mbps and beyond over copper lines.
His main research interests include multichannel wireless and wireline
communication, applications of game theory to dynamic and adaptive spectrum
management of communication networks, array and statistical signal
processing with applications to multiple element sensor arrays and networks
in radio-astronomy, brain research, wireless communications and
radio-astronomical imaging, set theory, logic and foundations of mathematics
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Bio: Geert Leus was born in Leuven, Belgium, in 1973. He received the
electrical engineering degree and the PhD degree in applied sciences
from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in June 1996 and
May 2000, respectively. He has been a Research Assistant and a
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders,
Belgium, from October 1996 till September 2003. During that period,
Geert Leus was affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Department
of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Currently, Geert Leus
is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Mathematics and Computer Science of the Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands. During the summer of 1998, he visited
Stanford University, and from March 2001 till May 2002 he was a
Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Minnesota.
His research interests are in the area of signal processing for
communications. Geert Leus received a 2002 IEEE Signal Processing
Society Young Author Best Paper Award and a 2005 IEEE Signal
Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is a member of the IEEE Signal
Processing for Communications Technical Committee, and an Associate
Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the EURASIP
Journal on Applied Signal Processing. In the past, he has served on
the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications. |
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Bio : Hongbin Li received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, in 1999. From July 1996 to May 1999, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He was a Summer Visiting Faculty Member at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, in the summers of 2003 and 2004. Since July 1999, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, where he is an Associate Professor. His current research interests include wireless communications and networking, statistical signal processing, and radars. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi. He received the Harvey N. Davis Teaching Award in 2003 and the Jess H. Davis Memorial Award for excellence in research in 2001 from Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award from the University of Florida in 1999. He is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and served on
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Bio: Athanasios P. Liavas was born in Pyrgos, Greece, in 1966.
He received the diploma and the Ph.D degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. From 1996 to 1998 he was a research fellow at the Institut National des Telecommunications, Evry, France, working under the framework of the Training and Mobility of Researchers (T.M.R.) program of the European
Commission. From 1998 to 2001 he was with the Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece, as a Visiting Assistant Professor. From 2001 to 2003, he was with the Department of Mathematics, University of
the Aegean, Greece, as an Assistant Professor. Currently, he is with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of
Crete, Greece, as an Associate Professor. His current research interests include signal processing for communications, and information theory.
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Bio : Roberto Lopez-Valcarce (M01) was born in Spain in 1971. He received the
undergraduate diploma in telecommunication engineering from Universidad
de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, in 1998 and 2000,
respectively. From 1995 to 1996, he was a systems engineer with Intelsis.
He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Spanish Ministry of
Science and Technology from 2001 to 2006. During that period he was with
the Signal Theory and Communications Department, Universidad de Vigo, where
he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests lie in the
area of adaptive signal processing and communications, in which he holds two
European patents. He has coauthored over 20 journal papers on these topics.
Dr. Lopez-Valcarce is the recipient of a 2005 Best Paper Award of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society and a coauthor of
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Bio: Wing-Kin Ma received the B.Eng. (with First Class Hons.) in electrical and
electronic engineering from the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, U.K.,
in 1995, and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electronic engineering,
from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, in 1997 and
2001, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Electronic Engineering, CUHK. He was with the Department of Electrical
Engineering and the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Tsing
Hua University, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor, from Aug. 2005 to Aug.
2007. He is still holding an Adjunct Assistant Professor position there.
Prior to that, he held various research positions at McMaster University,
Canada, CUHK, Hong Kong, and the University of Melbourne, Australia. His
research interests are in signal processing (SP) and communications, with a
recent emphasis on convex optimization techniques for SP, MIMO
communications, random finite set theory for multitarget tracking, and
source localization techniques for sensor networks and arrays. Dr. Ma\\\'s
Ph.D. dissertation was commended to be of very high quality and well
deserved honorary mentioning? by the Faculty of Engineering, CUHK, in 2001. |
| Focus: Signal Processing for Communications, Statistical Signal Processing, Convex
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Bio : Dr. Mandic received the Ph.D. degree in nonlinear adaptive signal processing
in 1999 from Imperial College, London, London, U.K. He is now a Reader with
the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College
London, London, U.K. He has previously taught at the Universities of East
Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, U.K., and Banja Luka, Bosnia Herzegovina.
He has written about 200 publications on a variety of aspects of signal
processing and a research monograph on recurrent neural networks (With J.
Chambers, Wiley 2001). He has been a Guest Professor at the Catholic
University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology (TUAT), and Frontier Researcher at the Brain Science Institute
RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Mandic has been a Member of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Signal
Processing, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
II, and Associate Editor for International Journal of Mathematical Modeling
and Algorithms. He has won awards for his papers and for the products coming
from his collaboration with industry.
His recent interest has been in multimodal, multidimensional, and
collaborative signal processing and data fusion with applications to brain
computer interfaces, human computer interaction, and renewable energy. Dr
Mandic has given a tutorial lecture (with Isao Yamada) on Machine Learning
and Signal Processing Applications of Fixed Point Theory in ICASSP 2007, and
is co-editor of a Springer volume \\\"Signal Processing Techniques for
Knowledge Extraction and Information Fusion\\\", 2007.
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Bio: Gerald Matz received the Dipl.-Ing. (1994) and Dr. techn. (2000) degrees
in Electrical Engineering and the Habilitation degree (2004) for
"Communication Systems" from Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Since Jan. 1995 he has been with the Department of Communications and
Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, where he
currently holds a tenured Associate Professor position. From March 2004 to
Feb. 2005 he was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow with the Laboratoire des
Signaux et Systèmes, Ecole Supérieure d''''''''Electricité (France).
Prof. Matz has directed or actively participated in several research
projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and by the European
Union. He has published some 80 technical articles in international
journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. He serves as Associate
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, was Technical Program Co-Chair of EUSIPCO
2004, and member of the Program Committee of numerous international
conferences. Prof. Matz is a recipient of the 2006 Kardinal Innitzer Most
Promising Young Investigator Award. His research interests include
wireless communications, statistical signal processing, and information
theory.
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Bio : Xavier Mestre (Barcelona, 1974) received the MS and PhD in Electrical
Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1997 and
2002 respectively. During the pursuit of his PhD, he was recipient of a
1998-2001 PhD scholarship (granted by the Catalan Government) and was
awarded with the 2002 Rosina Ribalta second prize for the best doctoral
thesis project within areas of Information Technologies and Communications
by the Epson Iberica foundation. From January 1998 to December 2002, he
was with UPC\\\'s Communications Signal Processing Group, where worked as a
Research Assistant. In January 2003 he joined the Centre Tecnològic de
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), where he currently holds a position
as a Senior Research Associate in the area of Radio Communications. He has
actively participated in several European projects and contracts with the
local industry. Since 2004 he is is coordinator of the Radio
Communications Research Area at CTTC. His current research interests
include: Array Processing, Parametric Estimation, Random Matrix Theory and
Multicarrier Modulations.
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Bio: Dennis R. Morgan (S63-68; M69; SM92) was born in Cincinnati, OH, on
February 19, 1942. He received the B.S. degree in 1965 from the University of
Cincinnati, OH, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, in 1968 and 1970, respectively, all in electrical engineering.
From 1965 to 1984 he was with the General Electric Company, Electronics
Laboratory, Syracuse, NY, specializing in the analysis and design of signal
processing systems used in radar, sonar, and communications.
He is now a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with Bell Laboratories,
Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T) where he has
been employed since 1984:
from 1984 to 1990 he was with the Special Systems Analysis Department,
Whippany NJ, where he was involved in the analysis and development of advanced
signal processing techniques associated with communications, array processing,
detection & estimation, and active noise control; from 1990 to 2002, he was
with the Acoustics Research Department, Murray Hill NJ, where he was engaged in
research on adaptive signal processing techniques applied to electroacoustic
systems, including adaptive microphones, echo cancellation, talker direction
finders, and blind source separation; since 2002, he has been with the
Wireless Research Laboratory and the Wireless and Broadband Access
Research Center, Murray Hill NJ, where he is involved in research
on adaptive signal processing applied to RF and optical communication systems.
He has authored numerous journal publications and is coauthor of
Active Noise Control Systems: Algorithms and DSP Implementations (New
York: Wiley, 1996) and Advances in Network and Acoustic Echo
Cancellation (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001).
Dr. Morgan served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Speech and Audio Processing from 1995 to 2000, and Associate Editor
for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2001 to 2004.
Since 2004 he has been a member of the Signal Processing Theory & Methods
Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
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Bio : Antonio Napolitano was born in Napoli, Italy, on February 7, 1964.
He received the Dr. Eng. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic
engineering in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer
engineering in 1994, both from the University of Napoli Federico II.
From 1994 to 1995, he was Appointed Professor of Electrical
Communications at the University of Salerno, Italy. From 1995 to
2001, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of
Napoli Federico II, where since 1999, he has been Appointed
Professor of Radar Theory and Methods. In 1997, he was with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of California, Davis, as a Postdoctorate Research Associate.
From 2001 to 2005, he was Associate Professor of Signal Theory
with the University of Napoli Federico II. From 2005 he has been
Full Professor of Signal Theory, Information Theory,
and Digital Signal Processing with the Department for Technologies
at the University of Napoli \\\"Parthenope\\\". In 2005, he was
Visiting Professor at the Institute de Recherche Mathematique
de Rennes (IRMAR), University of Rennes 2, Haute Bretagne, France.
He held visting positions at the Centro de Investigacion en
Matematicas (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Gto, Mexico and at the Econometric
Department, Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu, WSB-NLU, Nowy Sacz, Poland.
His research interests include statistical signal processing, system
identification, the theory of higher order statistics of
nonstationary signals, and wireless systems.
He is IEEE and EURASIP Member, author/coauthor of numerous journal
and conference papers, and is reviewer for IEEE and EURASIP
international journals.
Dr. Napolitano received the Best Paper of the Year Award from the
European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) in 1995 for
his paper entitled \\\"Cyclic higher-order statistics:
Input/output relations for discrete- and continuous-
time MIMO linear almost-periodically time-variant systems\\\"
(Signal Processing, vol. 42, Mar. 1995). Since May 2006 he is
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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Bio: Soontorn Oraintara received the B.E. degree (Hons.) from King
Monkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand in 1995, and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison in 1996, and Boston University in 2000, respectively. He
joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at
Arlington in July 2000, where he is currently an Associate Professor.
Between 1998 and 2000, he was with the Advanced Research Development Group,
Ericsson, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC. His current research interests
are in the fields of wavelets, filterbanks and multirate systems, and their
applications in data compression, image analysis and biomedical signal
processing. He received the Technology Award from Boston University for the
Integer DCT invention (with Y.J. Chen and T.Q. Nguyen) in 1999 and the
College of Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award from UTA in
2003. He served as an associate editor for the Circuits, Systems and Signal
Processing Journal and a guest editor for the Journal on Applied Signal
Processing Special Issue on Multirate Systems and Applications.
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Bio : Haldun M. Ozaktas was born in 1966 in Ankara, Turkey. He received a BS
degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in 1987, and a PhD
degree from Stanford University, California in 1991. He joined
Bilkent University, Ankara in 1991, where he is presently Professor of
Electrical Engineering. In 1992 he was at the
University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Bavaria as an Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Over the summer of 1994 he worked as a
Consultant at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey. He is
the author of about 90 refereed journal articles, over 10 book
chapters, and about 100 conference presentations and papers, over 35 of
which have been invited. He has also authored the book The Fractional
Fourier Transform (Wiley, 2001) and edited the book Three-Dimensional
Television (Springer, 2008). 4 of his articles have been reprinted as
milestone
works and 7 of his articles have received more than 100 citations each. A
total of about 2500 citations to his work are recorded in the Science
Citation Index (ISI). He is the recipient of the 1998 ICO International
Prize in Optics and one of the youngest
recipients ever of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of
Turkey (TUBITAK) Science Award (1999), among other awards and prizes.
Haldun M. Ozaktas is also one of the youngest members of the Turkish
Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
His academic interests include signal and image processing,
optical information processing,
and optoelectronic and optically interconnected computing systems.
He teaches courses mostly in the areas of signal processing and optics,
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Bio: Daniel P. Palomar (S-99-M-03) received the Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He has held several research appointments, namely, at Kings College London (KCL), London, UK, during 1998; Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, from January 1999 to December 2003; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, from April to November 2001; Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Barcelona, from January to December 2002; Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, from August to November 2003; University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, from November 2003 to February 2004; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, from March 2004 to July 2006. His primary research interests include information-theoretic and signal processing aspects of MIMO channels, with special emphasis on convex optimization theory and majorization theory applied to communication systems. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, a guest editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2008 special issue on Game Theory in Communication Systems, and the lead
guest editor of the IEEE JSAC 2007 special issue on Optimization of MIMO Transceivers for Realistic Communication Networks. Dr. Palomar received a 2004/06 Fulbright Research Fellowship; the 2004 Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society; (co-recipient of) the 2006 Best Student Paper Award at ICASSP-06; the 2002/03 best Ph.D. prize in Information Technologies and Communications by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC); the 2002/03 Rosina Ribalta first prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Information Technologies
and Communications by the Epson Foundation; and the 2004 prize for
the best Doctoral Thesis in Advanced Mobile Communications by the
Vodafone Foundation and COIT.
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Bio : Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola received her Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering in 1995 at the University of Rhode Island
(URI). Upon graduation, she held a research faculty position at
URI with Navy funding. In 1999, she joined Arizona State
University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to
Associate Professor in 2004. Her research interests are in the
areas of Time-Frequency Signal Processing, Integrated Sensing and
Processing, Signal Processing for Wireless Communications, and
Estimation and Detection Theory.
Prof. Papandreou-Suppappola is the editor of the book
``Applications in Time-Frequency Signal Processing\\\'\\\' that was
published by CRC Press in 2002. Her publication record consists
of more than seventy refereed journal articles, book chapters,
and conference papers. She is the recipient of the 2002 NSF
CAREER award, 2003 IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Faculty for
Research award, and the 2005 ASU Fulton School of Engineering
Teaching Excellence Award. She is currently the treasurer of the
Conference Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2004-2006)
and a technical committee member of IEEE Signal Processing
Society on Signal Processing Theory and Methods (2003-2008).
She has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Signal
Processing Letters (2003-2005), as the Chair of the IEEE
Communications and Signal Processing Phoenix Chapter (1999-2001),
and as a technical program committee member in numerous IEEE
international conferences and workshops in the area of Signal
Processing and Communications.
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Bio: Dr. Parra is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City
College of New York (City University of NY). Previously he was Technology
Leader for Adaptive Image and Signal Processing at Sarnoff Corporation
(1997-2003) and Member of the Technical Staff at the Machine Learning and
the Imaging Departments at Siemens Corporate Research (1995-1997). During
2002-2003 he was also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
at Columbia University. Currently he is assistant editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing. His expertise includes machine learning and pattern recognition,
acoustic array processing, emission tomography, and electro-encephalography.
His current research in biomedical signal processing focuses on functional
brain imaging and computational models of the central nervous system. His
interest is the role of timing in perceptual information processing. Dr.
Parra received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in
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Bio : Markus Püschel is an Associate Research Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Diploma (M.Sc.)
in Mathematics and his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Computer Science, in 1995 and
1998, respectively, both from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. From
1998-1999 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Mathematics and Computer
Science, Drexel University. Since 2000 he has been with Carnegie Mellon
University. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, and was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing
Letters, a Guest Editor of the Journal of Symbolic Computation, and the
Proceedings of the IEEE. His research interests include scientific
computing, compilers, applied mathematics and algebra, and signal processing
theory/software/hardware. More information is available at
www.ece.cmu.edu/~pueschel.
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Bio: Cédric Richard was born in Sarrebourg, France, in 1970. He received the
Dipl.-Ing. and the M.S. degrees in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in 1998
from Compiègne University of Technology, France, all in electrical and
computer engineering. From 1999 to 2003, he was an Associate Professor
at Troyes University of Technology, France. Since 2003, he is a
Professor at Charles Delaunay Institute (FRE CNRS 2848), Troyes
University of Technology. His current research interests include
statistical signal processing and machine learning.
Dr. Richard is the author of over 70 papers. He is the General Chair of
the XXIth francophone conference GRETSI on Signal and Image Processing
to be held in Troyes, France, in 2007. In 2005, he was offered the
position of chairman of a pattern recognition section of the federative
CNRS research group ISIS on Information, Signal, Images and Vision. He
is also in charge of the PhD students network of this group. Cédric
Richard is a member of GRETSI association board, and of the EURASIP and
IEEE-SP societies.
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| Focus: statistical signal processing, time-frequency and time-scale
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Bio : Brian M. Sadler (Fellow, 2006) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees
from the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Ph.D. degree
from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, all in electrical
engineering. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Army Research
Laboratory (ARL), Adelphi, MD. Hewas a Lecturer at the University of
Maryland, and has been lecturing on statistical signal processing
and communications at Johns Hopkins University since 1994. His
research interests include signal processing for mobile wireless
and ultra-wideband systems, sensor signal processing and networking,
and associated security issues. Dr. Sadler is currently an associate
for the IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
SIGNAL PROCESSING, and has been a guest editor for several journals,
including IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS and the
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is a member of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society Sensor Array and Multi-channel Technical Committee,
and received a Best Paper Award (with R. Kozick) from the Signal
Processing Society in 2006.
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Bio: Maria Sandsten received the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and
the PhD degree in Signal Processing in 1996 both from Lund
University in Sweden. Currently she is Associate Professor in
Mathematical Statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at
Lund University. Her current research interests include multiple
window spectrum analysis and time-frequency analysis of non-stationary
stochastic
processes with application to ElectroEncephaloGram signals, Heart
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Bio : Anna Scaglione received her PhD from the University of Rome \"La Sapienza\",
Rome, Italy in 1999. She was Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at University
of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) in 1999-2000. In July 2008 she joined the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC Davis as Associate
Professor. Prior to moving to UC Davis she was on the faculty at Cornell
University (Ithaca, NY) where she joined in 2001 and was promoted to
Associate Professor in 2006. Her first academic appointment as assistant
professor was in 2000, at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM).
She was awarded and is co-recipient of some awards: the 2000 IEEE Signal
Processing Transactions Best Paper Award; the NSF Career Award in 2002, the
Ellersick Best Paper Award (MILCOM 2005), the 2005 Best paper for Young
Authors of the Taiwan IEEE Comsoc/Information theory section. She has served
the IEEE Signal Processing and Communication societies in several capacities
over the years, she has been Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications (2002 to 2005), Co-Guest Editor of the Communication
Magazine Special Issue on Power Line Communications (?Broadband is Power:
Internet Access through the Power Line Networks?, May 2003). She has been
member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communication Technical Committee
since 2004 and of the IEEE Power Line Communication committee from 2005 to
2006. She was co-general Chair of the VI IEEE Signal Processing Advances in
Wireless Communications workshop, held in June 2005 in New York City. Her
research interests are in cooperative networks and sensor systems.
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Bio: Peter Schreier is currently a tenured Senior Lecturer with the School
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Munich, Germany,
in 1975. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA,
in 2003. In the Fall semester of 1998, he was a visiting research
student with the Coding Group at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.
In 1999-2000, he was a Research Fellow with the Optical 3D Metrology
Group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Germany. In the
Spring semester of 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate, and
in the Spring semester of 2008, a Visiting Associate Professor with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State
University, Ft. Collins, USA.
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Bio : Dr. Gerald Schuller is temporary full professor for Applied Media Systems
at the Ilmenau University of Technology since April of 2005, and head of
the audio coding research group of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital
Media Technology, in Ilmenau, Germany, since January 2002.
Before joining the Fraunhofer Institute he was Member of Technical
Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies,
and Agere Systems, a Lucent Spin-off, from 1998 to 2001.
There he worked in the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory.
His research interests include digital signal processing, filter banks
and wavelets, audio-, speech-, and image-coding.
He received his Diplom degree in Electrical Engineering from the
Technical University of Berlin in 1989, and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree
from the University of Hannover in 1997, and studied at MIT in 1989/90
and at The Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993.
Http://www.idmt.fhg.de/schuller.html
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Bio: Chong Meng Samson See (M''92) was born in Singapore on June 13, 1968.
He received the Diploma in electronics and communications engineering
(with Merit) in 1988 from Singapore Polytechnic and the M.Sc. degree
in Digital Communication Systems in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering in 1999, both from Loughborough University
of Technology, Loughborough, U.K. Since 1992, he has been with
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, where he is now a Principal
Member of Technical Staff. He currently leads a team in the research
and development of advanced array signal processing algorithms and
system design. From June 2006, he holds an adjunct appointment as
Senior Research Scientist at Temasek Labs@NTU.
Dr See''s research interests include the area of statistical and
array signal processing, communications, ultrawideband receiver
design, spatio-temporal sampling theory and bio-inspired systems.
He was awarded two patents on direction finding and has authored and
co-authored over 30 peer reviewed journal and conference papers. He has
also served on organizing and technical committees of international
workshops and conferences and regularly reviewed papers for various
IEEE journals.
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Bio : W. A. Sethares received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He has worked at the
Raytheon Company as a Systems Engineer and is currently Professor
in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of Wisconsin in Madison. Prof Sethares has held visiting positions at the
Australian National
University, at CCMIX in Paris, at the Technical Institute in Gdansk,
Poland, and at the NASA Ames Research Center, in Mountainview CA.
His research interests include adaptation and
learning in signal processing, communications, and acoustics, and is author
of Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale (Springer, now in its second edition) and
coauthor
of Telecommunication Breakdown: Concepts of Communications Transmitted
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Bio: Shahram Shahbazpanahi (M-02) was born in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran. He
received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992, 1994, and
2001, respectively. From September 1994 to September 1996, he was a
faculty member with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Razi
University, Kermanshah,
Iran. From July 2001 to March 2003, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON, Canada. From April 2003 to September 2004, he was a
Visiting
Researcher with the Department of Communication Systems, University of
Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany. From September 2004 to April 2005, he
was a Lecturer and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical
and
Computer Engineering, McMaster University. Since July 2005, he has
joined
the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario
Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada, where he holds an Assistant
Professor position. His research interests include statistical and array
signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, detection and
estimation, smart antennas, spread-spectrum techniques, and MIMO
communications.
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Bio : Jarmo Takala received his M.Sc. (hons) degree in Electrical Engineering and
Dr.Tech. degree in Information Technology from Tampere University of
Technology, Tampere, Finland (TUT) in 1987 and 1999, respectively. From 1992
to 1996, he was a Research Scientist at VTT-Automation, Tampere, Finland.
Between 1995 and 1996, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Research
Center, Tampere, Finland. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Researcher at TUT.
Currently, he is Professor on Computer Engineering at TUT and head of the
Institute of Digital and Computer Systems of TUT. His research interests
include circuit techniques, parallel architectures, and design methodologies
for digital signal processing systems.
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Bio: Zhi Tian received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering (Automation) from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1994, the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, in 1998 and 2000. From 1995 to 2000, she was a graduate research assistant in the Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) of George Mason University. Since August 2000, she has been with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research focuses on signal processing for wireless communications, particularly on ultra-wideband systems, cognitive radio networks, and distributed sensor processing and networking. Dr. Tian serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. She is the recipient of a 2003 NSF CAREER award.
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Bio : Petr Tichavsky graduated in 1987 from the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechoslovakia. He received the Ph.D. degree in theoretical
cybernetics from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1992.
Since that time he is with the Institute of Information Theory and
Automation,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague.
In 1994 he received the Fulbright grant for a 10 month fellowship
at Yale University, Department of Electrical Engineering, in New Haven,
U.S.A. In 2002 he received the Otto Wichterle Award from Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic. During years 2002-2004 Petr Tichavsky served as associate editor of
the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Petr Tichavsky is author and co-author of research papers in the
area of sinusoidal frequency/frequency-rate estimation, adaptive
filtering and tracking of time varying signal parameters and
algorithm-independent bounds on achievable performance, independent
component analysis and blind signal separation, and signal
processing for wireless communications.
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Bio: Jean-Yves Tourneret received the ingénieur degree in electrical engineering
from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d\\\'Electronique, d\\\'Electrotechnique,
d\\\'Informatique et d\\\'Hydraulique in Toulouse (ENSEEIHT) in 1989 and the Ph.D.
degree from the National Polytechnic Institute from Toulouse in 1992. He is
currently a professor in the university of Toulouse, France (ENSEEIHT) and a
member of the IRIT laboratory (UMR 5505 of the CNRS). His research
activities are centered around statistical signal processing with a
particular interest to classification and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods.
He was the program chair of the European conference on signal processing
(EUSIPCO), which was held in Toulouse (France) in 2002. He was also member
of the organizing committee for the international conference ICASSP which
was held in Toulouse (France) in 2006. He has been a member of different
technical committees including the Signal Processing Theory and Methods
(SPTM) committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2001-2007).
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Bio : Pramod K. Varshney (F-97) was born in Allahabad,
India, on July 1, 1952. He received the B.S. degree
in electrical engineering and computer science (with
highest honors), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign in 1972, 1974, and 1976,
respectively.
From 1972 to 1976, he was a teaching and research
assistant at the University of Illinois. Since 1976,
he has been with Syracuse University, Syracuse,
NY, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of electrical
engineering and computer science and the Research Director of the New
York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and
Software Engineering. He served as the Associate Chair of the department
from 1993 to 1996. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Radiology at Upstate
Medical University in Syracuse, NY. His current research interests are in
distributed sensor networks and data fusion, detection and estimation theory,
wireless communications, image processing, radar signal processing, and
remote sensing. He has published extensively. He is the author of Distributed
Detection and Data Fusion (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997). He has served
as a consultant to several major companies. Dr.Varshney was a James Scholar, a Bronze Tablet Senior, and a Fellowwhile
at the University of Illinois. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and is the recipient of the 1981 ASEE Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award. He was elected
Fellow of the IEEE in 1997 for his contributions in the area of distributed detection
and data fusion. He was the Guest Editor of the special issue on data fusion of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE in January 1997. In 2000, he received
the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE and Chancellors Citation for exceptional
academic achievement at Syracuse University. He serves as a Distinguished
Lecturer for the Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) society of the
IEEE. He is on the editorial board of Information Fusion. He was the President
of International Society of Information Fusion during 2001.
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Bio: Sergiy A. Vorobyov (M\\\'02-SM\\\'05) was born in Ukraine in 1972. He received the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems and control from Kharkiv National
University of Radioelectronics in 1994 and 1997, respectively.
From 1995 to 2000, he was with the Control Systems Research Laboratory at
the same university where he became a Senior Research Scientist in 1999.
From 1999 to 2001, he was with the Brain Science Institute, Institute of
Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan, as a Research Scientist. From
2001 to 2003 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as a
Postdoctoral Fellow. From 2003 to 2004 and from 2005 to 2006, he was a
Senior Researcher at the Departments of Communication Systems in the
University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, and Darmstadt University of
Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, respectively. In August 2006 he will join
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as an Assistant Professor. He also held
short-time visiting appointments at the Institute of Applied Computer
Science, Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1996; Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg,
Germany, in 2002; and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Israel, 2005. His research interests include statistical array signal
processing, robust adaptive beamforming, application of linear algebra and
optimization methods, estimation and detection theory, wireless and
multicarrier communications, blind source separation, and control theory.
Dr. Vorobyov was a recipient of the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best
Paper Award for his paper on robust minimum variance beamforming. He was
also a recipient of the 1999 DAAD Fellowship (Germany); the 1996 and 1997
Young Scientist Research Grants from the George Soros Foundation; and the
1996-1998 Young Scientist Fellowship of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers.
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Bio : Kainam Thomas WONG (ktwong@ieee.org) earned the B.S.E.
(Chemical Engineering) from the University of California (Los
Angeles, California, U.S.A.) in 1985, the B.S.E.E. from the
University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.) in 1987,
the M.S.E.E. from the Michigan State University (East Lansing,
Michigan, U.S.A.) in 1990, and the Ph.D. in E.E. from Purdue
University (West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.) in 1996.
K. T. Wong was a manufacturing engineer at the General Motors
Technical Center (Warren, Michigan, U.S.A.) from 1990 to 1991,
and a Senior Professional Staff Member at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory (Laurel, Maryland,
U.S.A.) from 1996 to 1998. Between 1998 and 2006, he had been
a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University
(Singapore), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the
University of Waterloo (Canada). Since 2006, he has been with
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Associate Professor.
He has/had been an Associate Editor for the \\\"IEEE Transactions
on Vehicular Technology\\\", the \\\"IEEE Signal Processing
Letters\\\", and \\\"Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing\\\".
K. T. Wong was conferred the \\\"Premier\\\'s Research Excellence
Award\\\" by the Canadian province of Ontario in 2003.
His research interest includes signal processing for
communications and sensor-array signal processing.
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Bio: An-Yeu (Andy) Wu received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan
University in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Maryland, College Park in 1992 and 1995, respectively, all in
Electrical Engineering.
From August 1995 to July 1996, he was a Member of Technical Staff
(MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, working on
high-speed transmission IC designs. In August 2000, he joined the
faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Graduate
Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University
(NTU), where he is currently a Professor. His research interests
include low-power/high-performance VLSI architectures for DSP and
communication applications, adaptive/multirate signal processing,
reconfigurable broadband access systems and architectures, and SoC
platform for software/hardware co-design.
Dr. Wu served as an Associate Editor for EURASIP JOURNAL OF APPLIED
SIGNAL PROCESSING from 2001 to 2004, and acted as the leading Guest
Editor for a special issue on Signal Processing for Broadband
Access Systems: Techniques and Implementations of the same journal
(published in December 2003). He had served as the Associate
Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERT LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI)
SYSTEMS from 2003 to 2005, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND
SYSTEMS I: REGULAR PAPERS in 2007. He is now the Associate Editor
of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II: EXPRESS BRIEFS. He
also served on the technical program committees of many major IEEE
International Conferences, such as SiPS, AP-ASIC, ISCAS, ISPACS,
ICME, SOC, and A-SSCC. Since August 2007, he is on leave from NTU and
serves as the Deputy General Director of SoC Technology Center (STC),
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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Bio : Dr. Isao Yamada received the B.E.degree in computer science from the
University of Tsukuba, in 1985 and the M.E.and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
and electronic engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in 1987
and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Communications and Integrated Systems, Tokyo Institute of
Technology. From August 1996 to July 1997, he was a Visiting Associate
Professor at Pennsylvania State University, State College. His current
research interests are in mathematical signal processing, adaptive signal
processing, statistical signal processing, nonlinear inverse problem and
optimization theory. He has been Associate Editor for several journals,
including the International Journal on Multidimensional Systems and Signal
Processing (since 1997), the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of
Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2001-2005) and the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS--PART
I: FUNDAMENTAL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (2006-2007). He received Excellent
Paper Awards in 1990, 1994, and 2006 and the Young Researcher Award in 1992
from the IEICE; the ICF Research Award from the International Communications
Foundation in 2004; the DoCoMo Mobile Science Award (Fundamental Science
Division) from Mobile Communication Fund in 2005; and the Fujino Prize from
Tejima Foundation in 2008. He has given a tutorial lecture (with Danilo
Mandic) on Machine Learning and Signal Processing Applications of Fixed
Point Theory in ICASSP 2007.
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Bio: Arie Yeredor received the B.Sc. (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering in 1984 and 1997, respectively, both from Tel-Aviv
University (TAU), Tel Aviv, Israel. He is currently with the Department of
Electrical Engineering - Systems, at TAU\'s School of Electrical Engineering,
where his teaching and research activities are in the fields of statistical
and digital signal processing. He serves as Academic Head of the DSP labs at
TAU, and has been awarded the yearly Best Lecturer of the Faculty of
Engineering Award five times. He also holds a consulting position with NICE
Systems Inc., Ra?anana, Israel, in the fields of speech and audio
processing,
video processing and emitter location algorithms. Dr. Yeredor has served as
Associate Editor for IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS and for IEEE
TRANSACTIONS
ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEM II, and is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society\'s Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee.
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Bio : Qing Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001
from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
From 2001 to 2003, she was a communication system engineer with Aware,
Inc., Bedford, MA.
She returned to academe in 2003 as a postdoctoral research associate
with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell
University.
In August 2004, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at UC Davis where she is currently an assistant professor.
Her research interests are in the general area of signal processing,
communications, and wireless networking.
She is an elected member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal
Processing for Communications (SP-COM)
Technical Committee. She received the 2000 IEEE Signal Processing
Society Young Author Best Paper Award.
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Bio: Shengli Zhou received the B.S. degree in 1995 and the M.Sc. degree in 1998, from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, both in electrical engineering and information science. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, in 2002. He has been an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
the University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, since 2003. He now holds a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professorship in Engineering Innovation.
His general research interests lie in the areas of wireless
communications and signal processing. His recent focus has been on underwater acoustic communications and networking. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from February 2005 to January 2007. He received the 2007 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award and the 2007 Presidential Early Career
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