Arye Nehorai received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1976 and 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1983.

After graduation Professor Nehorai worked at Systems Control Technology in Palo Alto, California. From 1985 to 1995 he was a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department of Yale University, where he became Associate Professor in 1989. In 1995 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as a Full Professor. From 2000 to 2001 he was Chair of the department's Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Division, which is now a new department. He held a joint professorship with the ECE and Bioengineering Departments at UIC. In 2006 he assumed the Chairman position of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the inaugural holder of the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professorship of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP) at WUSTL since 2006.

Academic Genealogy

• For the academic genealogy tree of Prof. Arye Nehorai, click here.

Honors

• Recipient, Rothschild Foundation fellowship (awarded annually to 8 new graduates in science and engineering throughout Israel), 1979-1980.
• Fellow of the IEEE, since 1994.
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, since 1996.
• Recipient, University Scholar Award, University of Illinois, 2001-2004.
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004 to 2005.
• The Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor of Electrical Engineering, inaugural holder, WUSTL, since 2006.
• Director, Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP), WUSTL, since 2006.
• Recipient, 2006 Technical Achievement Award "for fundamental contributions to sensor array processing with applications to radar, sonar, biomedicine, and the environment," IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2006. The full list of the 2006 SPS awardees can be found at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/awards-fellows/awardspage/

Paper Awards

• IEEE Signal Processing Society's Senior Award for Best Paper, "MUSIC, maximum likelihood and Cramér-Rao bound," with P. Stoica, IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-37, pp. 720-741, May 1989. (This paper received 727 citations according to ISI citation index and 1024 citations according to Google Scholar, Aug. 6, 2009).
• Co-author of IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2003 Young Author Best Paper Award, for "Space-time fading channel estimation and symbol detection in unknown spatially correlated noise," with Aleksandar Dogandzic, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. SP-50, pp. 457-474, Mar. 2002.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2004 Magazine Paper Award, "Generalized multivariate analysis of variance: a unified framework for signal processing in correlated noise," with A. Dogandzic, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 20, pp. 39-54, Sep. 2003.

IEEE Leadership Activities

• Chair, Technical Committee on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM), IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2000-2002.
  Note: From 1998 to 2002 the number of paper submissions to ICASSP (of the following year) under SAM increased from 90 to 170. From 2000 to 2002 submissions to the SAM Workshop increased from 135 to 165.
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, January 2000 to December 2002.
• Vice President-Publications, IEEE Signal Processing Society, January 2003 to December 2005.
• Chair of the Publications Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society, January 2003 to December 2005.
• Member of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, January 2003 to December 2005.
• Founding Editor, Special Columns on Leadership Reflections, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003-2006.

Editorships

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1987-1989.
• Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 1990-1999.
• Associate Editor, The Journal of The Franklin Institute, since 1994.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 1996-1998.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 1998-2000.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 1999-2000.
• Member of the Editorial Board, Signal Processing, since 1999.
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, January 2000 to December 2002.
  Note: From 2000 to 2002 the number of papers submitted to IEEE TSP per year was increased by 40%. From 1999 to 2002 the average time from submission to publication was reduced from 23 to 18 months. In Sept. 2002 IEEE TSP was the 3rd most viewed publication in Xplore.
• Member of the Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003-2006.
• Founding Editor, Special Columns on Leadership Reflections, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003-2006.
• Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Communications, Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Oct. 2004.
• Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue: Adaptive Waveform Design for Agile Sensing and Communication, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (STSP), June 2007. Introduction. Table of Contents.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue: Waveform-Agile Sensing and Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, January 2009.

Leadership Reflections Articles

To view the articles of Leadership Reflections in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, by leaders whom I invited, click here.

Recent Invited Plenary/Keynote Lectures

• Distinguished Lecturer, Third IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop, Sitges, Spain, July 19, 2004.
• Plenary Speaker, Sensor, Signal and Information Processing (SensIP), Tempe, Arizona, April 28, 2005.
• Plenary Speaker, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Conference on Wireless Sensing and Processing, Orlando, Florida, April 17-21, 2006.
• Distinguished Lecturer, 4th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop, Boston, Massachuset, July 12-14, 2006.
• Plenary speaker, Third International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Aruba, Dutch Antilles, December 13-16, 2009.

Recent Activities in Conferences

• Organizer, Special Session on AFOSR University Research Initiative, International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, June 4-8, 2007.
• Member, Technical Committee, 15th Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP), June 5-6, 2007.
• Member, Technical Committee, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), June 10-12, 2007.
• Member, Technical Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks (IWASN), August 6-10, 2007.
• Member, Technical Committee, 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), September 3-7, 2007.
• Member, Advisory Committee, International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), October 14-20, 2007.
• Member, Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), November 28-December 1, 2007.
• Member, Technical Committee, Sensor, Signal, and Information Processing (SensIP), May 11-14, 2008.
• Co-Advisory Chair, International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), July 7-9, 2008.
• Member, Advisory Committee, International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), August 25-31, 2008.
• Member, Technical Program Committee, European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO), August 25-29, 2008.
• Organizer, Special Session on Waveform Design Methods, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October 26-29, 2008.
• Member, Technical Committee, 13th IEEE Digital Signal Processing & 5th IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop (DSP/SPE), January 4-7, 2009.
• Organizer, Special Session on Adaptive Radar Waveform Design, Fourth International Waveform Diversity & Design (WDD) Conference, February 8-13, 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 7th IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), May 17-21, 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, Third International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), June 14-19, 2009.
• Member, Technical Committee, 17th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), August 24-28, 2009.
• Track Chair, "Bioelectrical & Biomagnetic Signals," World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, September 7-12, 2009.
• Organizer, Special Session on MIMO Radar Processing and Design, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 1-4, 2009.
• Member, Technical Program Committee, Second Cognitive Information Processing workshop (CIP-2010), June 14-15, 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), July 18-25, 2010.
• Publicity Chair, 6th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop, October 4-7, 2010.
• Member, Organizing and Technical Program Committee, International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth), October 18-20, 2010.

• To see a list of activities in conferences from 2002 to 2006, click here.