Professor Arye Nehorai

Professor Arye Nehorai received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in 1976 and 1979 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1983.

After graduation Professor Nehorai worked as a Research Engineer for Systems Control Technology, Inc., in Palo Alto, CA.  From 1985 to 1995 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, New Haven, CT, where he became an 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 holds a joint professorship with the ECE and Bioengineering Departments at UIC. His research interests are in signal processing, communications, and biomedicine.

Professor Nehorai is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.  He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of Signal Processing.  He has previously been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, and Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. He served as Chairman of the Connecticut IEEE Signal Processing Chapter from 1986 to 1995 and is currently the Chair and a Founding Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Processing.  He was the co-General Chair of the First IEEE SAM Signal Processing Workshop, held in 2000, and will serve in this position also in the Second IEEE SAM Workshop in 2002. He was co-recipient of the 1989 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Senior Award for Best Paper.  He received the Faculty Research Award from the UIC College of Engineering in 1999.  In 2001 he was named University Scholar of the University of Illinois. He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1994 and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 1996.