EDUCATION

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
    B.S. with Distinction, 1972

Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
    M.S.E. and M.A. in Elect. Eng., 1974
    Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1975

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
  
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (for contributions to the Theory and Applications of Signal Detection and Estimation)
• Appointed the Solomon and Sylvia G. Charp Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1993

University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Electrical Engineering

• 1992 - 1994: Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering
• 1986 - Present: Professor of Electrical Engineering
• 1983 - 1986: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
• 1980 - 1983: Associate Professor of Systems Engineering
• 1975 - 1980: Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering

• 1992: Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• 1983: Visiting Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

Nonlinear, Adaptive, and Non-Gaussian Signal Processing; Wireless Communications; Blind Separation and Equalization; Spatial Array Processing, High Resolution Imaging and Image Processing;  Biomedical Signal Processing;

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Numerous funded research projects since 1977, including grants and contracts from AFOSR, ONR, NRL, ARO, NSF, RADC, Pew Foundation, ATT Foundation, BFP Program, and UPenn Res. Found.

PUBLICATIONS (Books, Selected Journals, Patents)

    Link to list of selected publications

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

    Link to list of students

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (Selected)

• "Spatial Aperture Synthesis for Imaging" Bell Communications Research, April 1990
• "Aperture Synthesis for Linear Imaging of Coherent and Incoherent Scenes" KAIST, Seoul, June 1991
• "Low Redundancy Arrays for Active and Passive Imaging" Workshop on Multidimensional Signal Processing, Penn State University, May 1992
• "Nonlinear Signal Processing Using Radial Basis Function Networks" University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 1993
• "Nonlinear Signal Processing Applications of Radial Basis Function Networks" R.P.I., April 1994
• "Array Design for High-Resolution Imaging and Source Localization" NSF Workshop/Panel on Array Signal Processing, April 1995
• "Nonlinear Signal Processing Techniques" Istanbul University, June 1995
• "Nonlinear Signal Processing with RBF Networks," 1996 CRASP Workshop on Non-Gaussian Signal Processing, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD, May 1996
• "Research on Video and Data Transmission over Wireless Channels at the University of Pennsylvania," NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Communications, Villanova University, Dec. 1996
• "Video over Wireless Channels", Cairo University, Dec. 1997
• "Nonlinear Equalization in Communication Channels," Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland, June 1998
• "Robustness in Blind Source Separation," Imperial College, London, June 1999
• "Blind Source Separation and Equalization,"  Princeton University, March 2001
  
• Series of Special Invited Lectures over three days (March 2004) on Theory of Signal Detection,  Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• “Blind Source Separation and Applications in Communications” University of Delaware, May 2004

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

          Associate Editor for Detection Theory, IEEE Trans. Information Theory (1990-1993)
          Elected Member of the Board of Governors, IEEE Information Theory Society (1994-1997)
          Editorial Board,  J. Franklin Institute
          Member of International Advisory Board for the International Center for Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Tampere, Finland.
          Member of Board of Directors,  FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance
 

 COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Engineering Analysis I (EAS 240)
Engineering Probability and Statistics (SSE 301)
Engineering Applications of Statistics (SSE 302)
Signal and Linear Systems Analysis (EE 314)
Electrical Engineering Laboratory (EE 214)
Systems Laboratory (SSE 460)
Intro. to Digital Signal processing (EE 224)
Data Communications (TCOM 370)
Communication Systems (EE 414)

Linear Systems (EE 500)
Digital Signal Processing (EE 531)
Advanced Digital Signal Processing (EE 631)
Probability, Random Variables, andS tochastic Processes (SE 601)
Mathematical Statistics I and II (SE 607, 608)
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (EE 533)
Statistical Signal Processing (EE 638)
Detection and Estimation (EE 634)
Random Process Models & Optimal Filtering (EE 632)
Information Theory (EE 674)
Telecommunications Networking (TCOM 500)
Introduction to Digital Communications (TCOM 570)
Data Transmission for Telecommunications (EE 576)