Professional Service and Recognition
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE), 2001
- Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing
(EURASIP), 2015
- Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering
(SPIE), 2007
- Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET),
2010
- Recipient of the IEEE Picard Gold Medal in Radar Technologies and Applications, 2022
- Recipient of the US Fulbright Distinguished Chair
in Advanced (Defense) Science and Technology, 2017
- Recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award,
2016
- Recipient of the IET Technical Achievement Medal, 2016
- Recipient of the IEEE Warren D. White Award for
Excellence in Radar Engineering, 2015
- Recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Technical Achievement Award, 2014
- Recipient of the NATO Scientific Achievement Award,
2010
- Recipient of the Chief of Naval Research Challenge
Award, 2010
- Recipient of the Individual Technical Achievement
Award, EURASIP, 2009
- Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
- Recipient of the Young Author Best Paper Award, IEEE
Signal Processing Society, 2018
- Recipient of the Best Paper Barry Carlton Award, IEEE
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, 2018
- Recipient of the Best Paper Harry Rowe Mimno Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Society, 2017
- Recipient of Best Paper Award, EURASIP Signal Processing Journal,
2017
- Recipient of Best Paper Premium Award, IET Radar, Sonar and
Navigation Journal, 2015
- Recipient of Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, 2010
- Recipient of University of Wollongong Vice Chancellor’s
International Scholar Award, 2016
- Recipient of Villanova University Outstanding Faculty Research
Award, 1997
- Recipient of the IEEE Philadelphia Section Award for 1997
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society,
2003-2004
- Chair of the Electrical Cluster of the Franklin Institute
Committee on Science and the Arts (2013-2016)
- Editor, Radar for Indoor Monitoring, CRC Press, 2017
- Editor, Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar, CRC Press, 2014
- Editor, Through the Wall Radar Imaging, CRC Press, 2010
- Plenary Speaker,ISSPIT-01,
ISSPIT-03, ICASSP-10, ACES-13, IETRadar-13, EUSIPCO-13, STATOS-13,
CAMSAP-13, RADAR-14, CoSeRa-15, RADAR-16, SSPD-17
- Member of the Board of the Proceedings of IEEE (2017-Present)
- Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Overview Board (2012-2014)
- Member of the EURASIP Signal Processing Editorial Board
(2010-2015)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
(1996-1998)
- Lead Guest Editor, Digital Signal Processing Journal, Special
Issue, Coprime Sampling and Arrays, August 2016
- Lead Guest Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue,
Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Authentication in Satellite-based Navigation
Systems, June 2016
- Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing, Special Issue, Imaging of Building Interiors, May 2009
- Lead Guest Editor, Journal of Franklin Institute, Special Issue,
Advances in Indoor Imaging, September 2008
- Guest Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue,
Time-frequency Analysis and Applications, November 2014
- Guest Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue,
Recent Advances in SAR Imaging, July 2014
- Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,
Special Issue, Sparse Sensing in Radar and Sonar Signal Processing, 2014
- Guest Editor, IET Signal Processing, Special Issue, Time-Frequency
Approach on Radar Detection, Imaging, and Classification,December 2009
- Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from the Technical
University of Catalonia, Spain, 2012
- Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from the
University of Wollongong, Australia, 2010
- Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Grenoble
Institute of Technology, France, 2010
- Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from the
University of Montenegro, Montenegro, 2009
- Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Darmstadt
University of Technology, Germany, 2007
- Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, 2007
- Technical Program Chair for 2nd IEEE International Symposium on
Signal Processing and Information Technology, Marrakech, Morocco, December
2002
- General and Organization Chair of the IEEE Workshop on
Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Pocono Maner Inn, Pocono, PA,
August 2000
- General and Organization Chair of the IEEE International
Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Philadelphia, PA,
October 1994
- Co-Chair, Special Sessions, IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal processing, 2008
- Chairman of the Local Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society, Philadelphia Section (1990-1995)
- Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee
on Signal Processing for Communications (1997-2001)
- Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee
on Statistical Signal and Array Processing (1995-1997)
- Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International
Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (2001-Present)
- Member of the Conference Committee on Wireless Sensors and
Processing of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium (2002-Present)
- Member of the Technical Committee of the 2008 IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
- Member of the Technical Committee of the 2008 IEEE Radar
Conference (Radarcon 2008)
- Member of the Conference Committee of the 2005 IEEE International
Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications
- Member of the Technical Committee of 2004 International Symposium
on Signal Processing and Information Technology
- Member of the Technical Committee of 2003 International Symposium
on Signal Processing and Information Technology
- Member of the Technical Committee of 1999-Present SPIE, Digital
Wireless Communication Conference
- Member of the Technical Committee of 1998 IEEE Symposium on
Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis
- Member of the Technical Committee of 1996 IEEE Workshop on
Statistical Signal and Array Processing
- Session Chair in several national and international conferences
- Invited Speaker by industry, academic institutions, and
professional societies to give technical seminars and presentations
- Case Sponsor and Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for
honoring Dr. Ronald Harrington (Methods of Moments), April 2015
- Case Sponsor and Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for
honoring Dr. Ingrid Daubechies (Wavelets), April 2011
- Case Sponsor and Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for
honoring Dr. Andrew Viterbi (Communications), April 2005
- Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for honoring Drs.
Shunichi Iwasaki and Mark Kryder (Magnetic Recording), April 2014
- Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for honoring Dr.
Lotfi Zadeh (Fussy Logic), April 2009
- Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for honoring Dr.
Bishnu Atal (Speech Processing), April 2002
- Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for honoring Dr.
Bernard Widrow (Biomedical), April 2000
- Served on numerous Ph.D. external examinations in US and Abroad
- Served on numerous Tenure and Promotion cases in US and Abroad
- Organizer of the IEEE Philadelphia Section All Day Seminar on
Smart Antennas, May 1998
- Organizer of the IEEE Philadelphia Section All Day Seminar on
Advanced Signal Processing Applications in Wireless Communications, October
1996
- Organizer of the IEEE Philadelphia Section All Day Seminar on
Recent Advances in Adaptive Filtering, October 1995