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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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