Research interests

My research interests are in statistical signal processing theory and applications.

Education

• 2001, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• 1997, M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  University of Illinois at Chicago

• 1995, Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering
  University of Belgrade, Serbia

Honors and Awards

• CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation

• Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2006-present

• 2006-2007 Litton Industries Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University

• Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee, 2007-present

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award for "Generalized multivariate analysis of variance: A unified framework for signal processing in correlated noise," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, September 2003, co-authored with A. Nehorai

• 2003 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for "Space-time fading channel estimation and symbol detection in unknown spatially correlated noise," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Mar. 2002, co-authored with A. Nehorai

• 2001 Outstanding Thesis in the Division of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

• University and Aileen S. Andrew Foundation Fellowships, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000 and 1997

• Distinguished M.S. Student Award by the Chicago Chapter of IEEE Communications Society, 1996

• Summa cum laude, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, 1995

Editorship

• Guest Co-Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Positioning and Navigation with Applications to Communications, July 2005.

• Guest Co-Editor for EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Distributed Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks, 2008.

Publications

List of my publications

Ph.D. Students

Kun Qiu (since Fall 2006), Lu Dai (starting Fall 2008)

Graduated Ph.D. Students

Benhong Zhang, Ph.D. 2006 (with Bank of America, Charlotte, NC)
Jinghua Jin, Ph.D. 2006 (co-advised with Prof. Yao Ma, with Techwell, Chicago, IL)
Ping Xiang, Ph.D. 2005 (with Image Analysis, Columbia, KY)

Graduated M.S. Students

Lizandro Solano-Quinde, M.S. 2006
Nawanat Eua-Anant, M.S. 2004 (with Electricity Generating Authority, Bangkrui, Thailand)
Prihamdhani Amran, M.S. 2004
Carlos Chávez, M.S. 2003 (with Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA)

Teaching

Signals and Systems I, EE 224, Fall 2008
Digital Signal Processing, EE 524, Fall 2008

Introduction to Digital Signal Processing, EE 424, Fall 2007
Detection and Estimation Theory, EE 527, Spring 2007 Discrete Signals and Systems, EE 324, Spring 2004
Probabilistic Methods for Electrical Engineers, EE/STAT 322, Fall 2002
Space-Time Processing, EE 520, Spring 2002

Conferences

Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers

Fun stuff

My academic genealogy

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