education and experience

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education

  • BS, Electrical Engineering (EE), 1969, Purdue University
  • MS, Electrical Engineering (EE), 1970, University of California, Berkeley
  • PhD, Electrical Engineering (EE), 1974, Purdue University

employment

employment history
Univ. of MN Dean, CSE 6/18-1/22
Univ. of MN Interim Dean, CSE 1/18-6/18
Univ. of MN Assoc. Dean for Research and Planning, CSE 3/05-1/18
Univ. of MN Head, ECE Department 7/90-5/05
Univ. of MN Professor, ECE 9/85-present
Univ. of MN Associate Professor, EE 9/80-9/85
Univ. of MN Assistant Professor, EE 9/75-9/80
Purdue Univ. Teaching & Post-Doc, EE 1/75-8/75
Purdue Univ. Research Asst., EE 7/73-12/74
Purdue Univ. Teaching Asst., EE 9/71-6/73
U of CA, Berkeley Regents Fellow 9/69-6/70
Scala Radio, CA Design Engineer 7/70-8/71
Consultant MIT Lincoln Laboratory, CDC, Honeywell, 3M, others various times

honors

  • Fellow, AAAS, elected 2011
  • Charles W. Britzius Distinguished Engineer Award, IEEE Twin Cities Section, 2011
  • Centennial Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002-14
  • Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award, Purdue University, 2002
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society 2000 Society Award for “Pioneering technical contributions and outstanding leadership in the development, theoretical analysis, and experimental performance of adaptive sensor array signal processing algorithms”.
  • IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
  • Quality Mentorship Award, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, 1994
  • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ASSP) Society, 1989-1990
  • Meritorious Service Award, IEEE ASSP Society, 1988
  • Fellow of the IEEE, elected 1988 for “Contributions to diffraction tomography and the signal processing aspects of that imaging technique”.
  • Senior (best paper) Award with A. Barabell, IEEE ASSP Society, 1986
  • Co-author, IEEE Trans. on ASSP Paper Awards, 1984 and 1988
  • George Taylor Teaching Development Award, University of Minnesota, 1977

professional activities

  • Member, IEEE Tellers Committee, 2018-2019
  • Member, IEEE Awards Policy and Planning Committee, 2016
  • Member, Advisory Board, Center for Uncertaintly Quantification in Science and Engineering, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 2013-16
  • Member, IEEE Fellow Committee, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Member of the IEEE Publications Services Products Board Strategic Planning Committee, 2012-2014
  • Member, IEEE TABARC, 2012-2014
  • Past-President, Signal Processing Society, 2012-2013
  • President, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2010-2011
  • President-Elect, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2008-2009.
  • Member, Affiliates Board (advisory), ECE Department, University of Arizona, 2007-2011
  • Member, Advisory Board, ECE Department, Duke University, 2007
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2006-2007
  • Vice President, Awards and Membership and Member Board of Governors, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2005-2007.
  • Member, Advisory Boards, ECE Department (2005-07) and the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (2004-2007), Purdue University
  • Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2002-2004
  • Editoral Board, EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, 2001-03
  • Editorial Board, Marcel Dekker Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, 2000-4
  • Member, External Advisory Committee, ECE Department, Johns Hopkins University, 2000-2018
  • Member of review committees of departmental and research programs in ECE or engineering, University of Southern California, Northeastern University, Brown University, Ohio State University, University of Utah, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, University of Qatar, various years.
  • Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1997-2000, 2005-2010
  • Member International Advisory Committee, Institute for Systems Research, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1998-2006
  • Vice President for Publications, IEEE Signal Processing Society1993-1996
  • General Chairman, 1993 Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  • Chairman, Publications Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1985 - 1988
  • Associate Editor,  IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1983-85
  • Co-chairman, Fourth ASSP Workshop on Spectrum Estimation and Modeling, 1988
  • Co-chairman, Thirteenth Conference on Acoustical Imaging, 1983