Arye Nehorai is the inaugural Eugene & Martha Lohman Professor of Electrical Engineering since 2006, and Professor Emeritus of this endowed chair since 2016, in the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems (ESE) at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). From 2006 to 2016 he served as chair of the ESE department; under his chair leadership, the undergraduate enrollment has more than tripled and the master’s enrollment grew seven-fold in four years.

He 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, California, in 1983. After graduation he 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 as Full Professor the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

His research interests are in statistical data analysis, signal processing and machine learning for inference, prediction, decision making, and optimal design. Applications include health and bio-engineering, defense (radar, sonar), energy and the environment. Nehorai was Principal Investigator (PI) of multi-university grants funded by NSF, AFOSR, Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), and DARPA, as well as other grants. Nehorai served as the sole advisor of 38 Ph.D. students.

Dr. Nehorai served as Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, from 2000 to 2002. He was the Vice President-Publications, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS),, Chair of the Publications Board, and member of the Executive Committee of this Society, from 2003 to 2005. He was the founding editor of the special columns on Leadership Reflections in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2003 to 2006. He was also chair and co-founder of the Founding member and Chair, Technical Committee on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM), IEEE SPS, from 2000 to 2002.

Dr. Nehorai received the 2006 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award, and the 2010 IEEE SPS Meritorious Service Award . He is co-recipient of the 2022 IEEE SPS Sustained Impact Paper Award and several other best paper awards in IEEE journals and conferences. He was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SPS in 2004 and 2005. He was named University Scholar Award, University of Illinois in 2001. Dr. Nehorai was PI of the MURI project titled Adaptive Waveform Diversity for Full Spectral Dominance /a> from 2005 to 2010.

He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE since 2017, Fellow of the IEEE since 1994, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 1996, Fellow of the AAAS since 2012, Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) since 2021.

Nehorai's Wikipedia page.

Citations

Academic Genealogy

My Graduated PhD Students

I was advisor of 39 Ph.D. students (38 as their sole advisor). Of these graduates, 6 are female, 9 are faculty members, 2 in government research labs, 28 in industry (including 2 who each founded a company, and 9 in finances). To see the list of students divided by employers, click here.

My Ph.D. students have come from 13 countries (Argentina, Chile, China, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Serbia, Turkey, UK, Uruguay, USA, and Zimbabwe). To view maps showing the origins of these students click here.

Grants

PI of multi-university grants funded by NSF, AFOSR, MURI, and DARPA. For a list of my grants (since 2006) click here.

Honors

Press

IEEE Leadership Activities

External Advisory Boards

Appointments at Washington University in St. Louis

Key Achievements and Events as Department Chair (2006-2016)

To see a list of my key contributions, events, and the significant turnaround that took place under my leadership as Chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, from 2006 to 2016, click here.

Best Paper Awards

      Journal Paper Awards       Young Author Paper Awards       Conference Paper Awards       Links to numbers of citations per paper (Google Scholar, ISI citation index).

Editorships

Leadership Reflections Articles

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

Invited Plenary/Keynote Lectures

Other invited lectures

Recent Activities in Conferences