ARYE NEHORAI

Arye Nehorai (S'80--M'83--SM'90--F'94) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California. From 1985 to 1995 he was a faculty member with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. In 1995 he joined as Full Professor the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). From 2000 to 2001 he was Chair of the department's Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Division, which then became a new department. In 2001 he was named University Scholar of the University of Illinois. In 2006 he became Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the inaugural holder of the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professorship and the Director of the Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP) at WUSTL since 2006.

Dr. Nehorai was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing during the years 2000 to 2002. In the years 2003 to 2005 he was Vice President (Publications) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Chair of the Publications Board, member of the Board of Governors, and member of the Executive Committee of this Society. From 2003 to 2006 he was the founding editor of the special columns on Leadership Reflections in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

Dr. Nehorai was co-recipient of the IEEE SPS 1989 Senior Award for Best Paper with P. Stoica, co-author of the 2003 Young Author Best Paper Award and co-recipient of the 2004 Magazine Paper Award with A. Dogandzic. He was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SPS for the term 2004 to 2005 and received the 2006 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award. He is the Principal Investigator of the new multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) project entitled Adaptive Waveform Diversity for Full Spectral Dominance. He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1994 and of the Royal Statistical Society since 1996.