Mark R. Bell (Purdue)

Mark R. Bell received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Long Beach, in 1981 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1988, respectively.

From 1979 to 1989 he was employed by Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, CA. At Hughes, he held the positions of Member of the Technical Staff and Staff Engineer and worked in the areas of radar signal processing, electromagnetic scattering, radar target identification, and radar systems analysis. While at Caltech, he was a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow.

Since 1989, he has been on the Faculty of Purdue University, where he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of radar systems and signal processing, information theory, detection and estimation, and communications systems.

From 1999-2001, he served as Topical Editor of the Optical Society of America Journal Applied Optics, and was responsible for the topical areas of Electromagnetics, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Signal Reconstruction, and Synthetic Aperture Radar. In 1992, he was the recipient of the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award in the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.