Professional Interests
Sensor Fusion, Distributed Detection, Information Assurance, Engineering Education, Forensic Pattern Recognition, Mobile Robots
Licensing
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of State, Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs
Professional Engineer, License number PE058802
Education
Drexel University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sep 1984 - Sep 1986
Ph.D., awarded June 1987
Advisor: Dr. Paul Kalata
Ph.D. dissertation: Entropy and the Basic Percepts of System Theory
Sep 1983 - Sep 1984
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, awarded June 1985
Advisor: Dr. Paul Kalata.
M.S. thesis: The Power Spectral Density at the output of the Gaussian Nonlinearity in Conical Scan Laser Target Tracking
Tel Aviv University
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
Sep 1972 - Jun 1976
B.Sc., awarded April 1977
Experience Record
New Jersey Institute of Technology
September 2014 - Present
Professor and Dean, Newark College of Engineering
September 2014 - Present
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Drexel University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
July 2007 - August 2014
Department Head
Jan 2001 - August 2014
Robert Quinn Professor
Sep 1996 - December 2000
Professor
June 2000 - August 2014
Director, Drexel University NSA/DHS Center for Excellence in Information Assurance Education
April 1990 - September 1996
Associate Professor
June 1990 - September 1997
Assistant Department Head (Development)
October 1987- March 1990
Assistant Professor
September 1986 - September 1987
Research Assistant Professor
September 1983 - September 1986
Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant
Professional Service - Boards of Directors
IEEE
2011
President and CEO (2010: President-Elect; 2011: President and CEO; 2012: Past President); Member of the Board of Directors
2013
Chair of the Appointments and Nominations Committee; Chair of the Corporate Membership Committee; Champion of the Life Sciences Initiative
2005-2007
Vice President, Educational Activities; Member of the Board of Directors; Champion of the merger between IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu
2003-2004
Region Director (Region 2 – US Mid-Atlantic) and Member of the Board of Directors
ABET
2009 – 2001
Member of the Board of Directors
United Engineering Foundation
2012 – 2013
Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Finance Committee
Israeli Defense Forces
Nov 76 - Sep 83
R&D Engineer and Technical Officer
Honors
Haraden Pratt Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, “For original and high-impact contributions to IEEE’s Educational Activities, expanding IEEE’s global reach and effectiveness,” 2016
IEEE Educational Activities Board, Meritorious Service Citation, 2016
Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde, 2012-2018
Honorary Professor, South China Technical University (awarded 2006)
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, “for contributions to the theory of decision fusion and distributed detection”, 2001
Third Millennium Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2000
Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, 1990-1995
C. Holmes MacDonald Award for the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Educator, Eta Kappa Nu, 1991-1992