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, 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.
Citations
- For citations to my research papers, visit my Google Scholar Profile and ISI citation index.
Academic Genealogy
- For the academic genealogy tree of Prof. Arye Nehorai, click here.
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
- Life Fellow of the IEEE since 2017, Fellow of the IEEE, "for contributions to statistical signal processing and system identification," since 1994.
- Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, since 1996.
- Fellow of the AAAS, "for distinguished contributions to the field of statistical signal processing with broad applications, and for academic leadership in electrical and systems engineering," since 2012.
- Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), since 2021.
- Recipient, the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017
- Recipient, Outstanding Educator, IEEE St. Louis Section, 2012.
- Recepient, Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, "for exceptional and dedicated service as a leader in a broad range of activities for the Society and profession," 2009.
- Recipient, Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, "for fundamental contributions to sensor array processing with applications to radar, sonar, biomedicine, and the environment," 2006.
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004 to 2005.
- Recipient, University Scholar Award, University of Illinois, 2001-2004.
- Recipient, Rothschild Foundation Fellowship for Ph.D. studies, awarded to 10 graduates in science and engineering throughout Israel, 1979-1980.
- Recipient, Weill Fellowship, Technion, Israel, 1979.
- Recipient, Gutwirth Scholarship Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, Technion, Israel, 1979.
Press
- Was quoted in NYT article of Oct. 30, 2013, about the Cardinals and AM radio "Trying to Outrun the Cardinals’ Long Reach."
- Was quoted in NYT article of Feb. 21, 1988, about "A Need to Stir Interest in Engineering." `Prof. Arye Nehorai of electrical engineering, said he believed that ''to give the United States the desired competitive edge, more emphasis will have to be put on basic research in the universities.'''
External Advisory Boards
- Member of the External Committee for internal review of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, 2017.
- Member of the External Advisory Board, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University, 2013-
- Member of the External Advisory Board, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, 2012-
Appointments at Washington University in St. Louis
- Chairman, Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, January 2006 to June 2016.
- The Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor of Electrical Engineering, inaugural holder, since 2006.
- Professor (courtesy appointment), Division of Biostatistics, since 2017.
- Professor (courtesy appointment), Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), since 2017.
- Professor (courtesy appointment), Department of Biomedical Engineering, since 2013.
- Director, Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP), since 2006.
- Professor, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS), since 2006.
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.
Paper Awards
- Co-author of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2022 Sustainable Impact Paper Award, for
"MUSIC, maximum likelihood and Cramér-Rao bound," IEEE Trans. Acoust.,
Speech, Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-37, pp. 720-741, May 1989.
- Co-author of IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2019 Young Author Best Paper Award, for "Coarrays, MUSIC, and the Cramér-Rao bound," with Mianzhi Wang, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 933-946, Feb. 2017.
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Co-author of one of the 10 Best Papers in Biomicrofluidics in 2013 (Editors' Pick),
"Optimization of microfluidic microsphere-trap arrays,"
with Xiaoxiao Xu, Pinaki Sarder and Zhenyu Li,
Biomicrofluidics, Vol. 7, DOI: 10.1063/1.4793713, Feb. 2013.
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Co-author of
a winner (third place) in Student Paper Competition, for
"Joint-sparse recovery in compressed
sensing with dictionary mismatch"
with Zhao Tan,
Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), December 2013.
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Co-author of
a winner (first place) in Student Paper Competition, for
"Frequency hopping code design for colocated MIMO radar using sparse modeling,"
with Sandeep Gogineni,
International Waveform Diversity and Design (WDD) Conference, January 2012.
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Co-author of
a winner (third place) in Student Paper Competition, for
"Biologically inspired coupled antenna array for direction of arrival estimation,"
with Murat Akcakaya,
44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2010.
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Co-author of
a winner (second place) in Student Paper Competition, for
"OFDM radar waveform design for sparsity-based multi-target tracking,"
with Satyabrata Sen,
International Waveform Diversity and Design (WDD) Conference, August 2010.
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Co-author of
a winner (first place) in Student Paper Competition, for
"Biologically inspired coupled beampattern design,"
with Murat Akcakaya,
International Waveform Diversity and Design (WDD) Conference, August 2010.
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Co-author of
a winner (third place) in Student Paper Competition, for
"MIMO radar detection and adaptive design in compound-Gaussian clutter,"
with Murat Akcakaya,
IEEE International Radar Conference, May 2010.
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Co-author of
a winner in Student Paper Contest, for
"Seismic velocity/polarization estimation and polarized wavefield separation,"
with Daniela Donno and Umberto Spagnolini,
IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006.
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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.
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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.
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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.
- Links to numbers of citations per paper (Google Scholar, ISI citation index).
IEEE Leadership Activities
- Founding Editor, Special Columns on Leadership Reflections, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003-2006.
- Member of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, January 2003 to December 2005.
- Chair of the Publications Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society, January 2003 to December 2005.
- Vice President-Publications, IEEE Signal Processing Society, January 2003 to December 2005.
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, January 2000 to December 2002.
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Founding member and 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.
Editorships
- Guest Editor, Article Series on Signal and Information Processing in Hands-on and Design Projects, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2016-2018.
- Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue: Radar and Information Theory, Entropy, 2016-2018.
- Member of the Scientist Review Board, the Journal of Youths in Science (JOURNYS), since 2012.
- Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue: Waveform-Agile Sensing and Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, January 2009.
- 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 Co-Editor, Special Issue: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Communications, Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Oct. 2004.
- Founding Editor, Special Columns on Leadership Reflections, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003-2006.
- Member of the Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003-2006.
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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, Signal Processing, since 1999.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 1999-2000.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 1998-2000.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 1996-1998.
- Associate Editor, The Journal of The Franklin Institute, since 1994.
- Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 1990-1999.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1987-1989.
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
- Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, February 3, 2017.
- Distinguished Interdisciplinary Seminar Speaker, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU), October 23, 2015.
- Distinguished Lecturer, Yale Institute for Network Science, October 14, 2015.
- Keynote Lecturer, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Boston, Massachusetts, September 19, 2015.
- Distinguished Lecture on Computable Performance Analysis of Sparse Recovery in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, September 17, 2014.
- Plenary Speaker, 20th European Signal Processing Conference (Eusipco), Bucharest, Romania, August 27-31, 2012. About 600 people attended.
- Plenary Speaker, Third IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Aruba, Dutch Antilles, December 13-16, 2009.
- Distinguished Lecturer, 4th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop, Boston, Massachuset, July 12-14, 2006.
- Plenary Speaker, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Conference on Wireless Sensing and Processing, Orlando, Florida, April 17-21, 2006.
- Plenary Speaker, Sensor, Signal and Information Processing (SensIP), Tempe, Arizona, April 28, 2005.
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004-2005.
- Distinguished Lecturer, Third IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop, Sitges, Spain, July 19, 2004.
Other invited lectures
- A lecture at the Workshop to Honor Mos Kaveh, University of Minnesota, September 16, 2017.
- A presentation about the Increased Enrollment in the ESE Department, at the annual ECEDHA meeting, Austin, Texas, March 26, 2012.
- A presentation about Biomedical Opportunities in the Undergraduate EE Curriculum, at the annual ECEDHA meeting, New Orleans, March 20-24, 2009.
Recent Activities in Conferences
- Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, December 15-18, 2019.
- Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), September 17-20, 2018.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), September 3-7, 2018.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, 5th International Workshop on Compressed Sensing applied to Radar, Multimodal Sensing, and Imaging (CoSeRa), September 10-13, 2018.
- Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (SPCS), July 29-30, 2018.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, 10th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), July 8-11, 2018.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, June 10-13, 2018.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, 12th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), March 26-28, 2018.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, 21st International Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), March 14-16, 2018.
- Member, Advisory Committee, International Conference on Technological Advances of Sensors and Instrumentation (ICTASI), January 26-28, 2018.
- To see a list of activities in conferences from 2002 to 2018, click here.