H. Vincent Poor

Princeton University, USA

H. Vincent Poor received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1977. From 1977 until 1990, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1990, he has been on the faculty at Princeton University, where he is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of electrical engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has also held visiting appointments at a number of universities, including recently Imperial College, Stanford, and Harvard. His research interests are in the areas of advanced signal processing, wireless networks, and related fields. Among his publications in these areas is the recent book Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design (Springer, 2005). He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Optical Society of America, and other organizations. He is a past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and the current Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Recent recognition of his work includes a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002–2003) and the IEEE Education Medal (2005).

Biography Updated on 1 January 2007

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