Professional Service and Recognition

• Recipient of the Individual Technical Achievement Award, EURASIP, 2009.
• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2001.
• Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2007.
• Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2010.
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2003-2004.
• Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000.
• Recipient of the IEEE Philadelphia Section Award for 1997.
• Recipient of Villanova University Outstanding Faculty Research Award, 1997.
• Recipient of the NATO Scientific Achievement Award, 2010.
• Recipient of Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2010.
• Member of the Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts (2000-2011).
• Editor, Through the Wall Radar Imaging, CRC Press, 2010.
• Member of the EURASIP Signal Processing Editorial Board (2010-Present).
• Plenary Speaker, ICASSP, 2010.
• Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Overview Board.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1996-1998).
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1996-1998).
• Guest Editor, Journal of Franklin Institute, Special Issue, Advances in Indoor Imaging, September 2008.
• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Special Issue, May 2009.
• 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 University of Wollongong, Australia, 2010.
• Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Grenoble Institute of Technology, 2010
• Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from the University of Montenegro, 2009.
• Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Darmstadt University of Technology, 2007.
• Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Nanyang Technological University, 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).
• Session Chair in several national and international conferences.
• 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.
• Guest Editor to the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
• Invited Speaker by industry, academic institutions, and professional societies to give technical seminars and presentations.
• Served on several Ph.D. external examinations for Australia, Singapore, Canada, Germany, Egypt, and United States.
• 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.
• Case Sponsor and Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for honoring Dr. Ingrid Daubechies (Wavelets), April 2011.
• Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for honoring Dr. Lotfi Zadeh (Fussy Logic), April 2009.
• 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 Dr. Bishnu Atal (Speech Processing), April 2002.
• Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop for honoring Dr. Bernard Widrow (Biomedical), April 2000.