Arye Nehorai
Arye Nehorai is the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor and Chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). He serves as the Director of the Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing at WUSTL. Earlier he was a faculty member at Yale University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel, and the Ph.D. from Stanford University, California.
Dr. Nehorai has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing during the years 2000 to 2002. In the years 2003 to 2005 he was Vice President (Publications) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), Chair of the Publications Board, and member of the Executive Committee of this Society. He was the Founding Editor of the special columns on Leadership Reflections in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2003 to 2006.
Dr. Nehorai received the 2006 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award and the 2009 IEEE SPS Meritorious Service Award. He was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SPS for the term 2004 to 2005. He was co-recipient of the IEEE SPS 1989 Senior Award for Best Paper co-author of the 2003 Young Author Best Paper Award and co-recipient of the 2004 Magazine Paper Award. In 2001 he was named University Scholar of the University of Illinois. Dr. Nehorai was the Principal Investigator of the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) project entitled Adaptive Waveform Diversity for Full Spectral Dominance. He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1994 and of the Royal Statistical Society since 1996.