Education:
Professional Experience:
- University
of California at Santa Cruz, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Professor, 1999 -
present.
- University
of California at Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Professor, 1989 -
1999.
- Signal Processing Technology, Ltd., President,
1988 - 1999.
- Consultant to various companies, since
1985.
- Saxpy Computer Corporation, Director of
Advanced Technology, 1985-1988.
- Systems Control Technology, Manager of the
Advanced Technology Division, 1976-1985.
- Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford
University, Research Assistant, 1973-1976, Lecturer and consultant
1976-1982.
- MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, Vancouver,
Canada, Design Engineer, 1973.
- Israel Aircraft Industries, Consultant,
1972.
- Electronic Research Department, M.O.D, Israel,
Engineer and Group Leader, 1968-1972.
Honors and Awards:
- The IEEE Third Millennium medal
(2000).
- The 1989 Technical Achievement Award of the
Signal Processing Society (formerly the Acoustics, Speech and
Signal Processing Society).
- Fellow of the IEEE (1987).
- The 1985 Award for the Best Paper of the Year
from the European Association for Signal Processing
(EURASIP).
- The 1983 ASSP Senior Award for a paper
published in the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing.
Professional Activities:
- General chairman of the 36th Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (2002).
- Member of the Steering Committee of the
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
(1998-2001).
- Member of the editorial board of the
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
(1988-1999).
- Associate Editor of the Journal of Circuits,
Systems and Signal Processing (1988-1994).
- Technical program chairman of the 28th
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
(1993).
- Vice Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter of the
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society
(1990-1993).
- Member of the Administrative Committee and of
the Technical Committee on Estimation and Modeling of the
Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ASSP) Society
(1988-1992,1992-1995).
- Associate editor of the IEEE Transaction on
Automatic Control (1983-1984).
- Chairman of the Optimal Control Panel of the
Dynamic Systems and Control Division of the ASME (1979 -
1983).
- Chairman of numerous sessions at the Asilomar
Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers, the IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, the International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, the Signal Processing
Workshops on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, and on
High-Order Statistics.
- Organizer of the 1983 IFAC Workshop on
Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing.
Areas of Expertise
An internationally known expert in statistical
signal processing theory: detection, estimation, filtering; algorithm
development and performance analysis. Extensive experience in
applications of statistical signal processing to various engineering
problems, including:
- Digital communications
- Wireless communications
- Antenna and sensor arrays
- Radar and sonar systems
- Adaptive filtering
- Time-frequency analysis