H. Vincent Poor, Dean
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Princeton University
C-230 Engineering Quadrangle, Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08544

Tel: (609) 258-2260
Fax: (609) 258-7305
Email: poor@princeton.edu

Biography: In addition to his role as dean, H. Vincent Poor (Ph.D. in EECS, Princeton, 1977) is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton, where his interests lie in the areas of statistical signal processing and stochastic analysis, and their applications in wireless networking, finance and related fields. He is also affiliated with Princeton’s Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics and its Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.  From 1977 until joining the Princeton faculty in 1990, he was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He has also held visiting appointments at a number of universities and research institutions in the USA and abroad, including recently Imperial College (London), Stanford and Harvard.

Dr. Poor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a former Guggenheim Fellow.  He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Optical Society of America, and other scientific and technical organizations.  He has served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and currently as Chair of Section 7 (Electronics) of the NAE.  In 2005 he received the IEEE Education Medal, and in 2008 he was named an Eminent Member of Eta Kappa Nu.  Recent recognition of his work includes the 2007 Marconi Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society, the 2007 Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the 2008 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Information Theory.  He has also recently received Best Paper Awards at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (Beijing) and at the 2008 IEEE Global Communications Conference (New Orleans(.

Recent and Forthcoming Representative Publications:

Wireless Networks

• Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design. With C. Comaniciu and N. Mandayam (Springer: New York, 2005).
• “Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks with Quality-of-Service Constraints,” (w. F. Meshkati, et al.) IEEE Trans. Communications, to appear.
• “Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling for Ad Hoc Communications with Imperfect Channel Information,” (w. D. Zheng, et al.). IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 7 (12), 2008.
• “On the Capacity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Delay Constraints,” (w. C. Comaniciu) IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications5 (8) 2061-2062, 2006.
• “Call Admission Control in Wireless Multimedia Networks,” (w. R. Rao, et al.) IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 21 (5) 51–58, 2004.

Wireless Systems

• MIMO Wireless Communications. With E. Biglieri, et al. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2007)
•  “Collaborative Wideband Sensing for Cognitive Radios,” (w. Z. Quan, et al.). IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 25 (6) 2008.
• “Iterative (“Turbo”) Multiuser Detectors for Impulse Radio Systems,” (w. E. Fishler and S. Gezici) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 7 (8) 2964-2974, 2008.
•  “The Continuous-Time Peak-to-Average Power Ratio of OFDM Signals Using Complex Modulation Schemes,” (w. D. Wong and S. Pun). IEEE Trans. Communications 56 (9) 1390-1393, 2008.
• “Ultrawideband Geolocation.” (w. S. Gezici, et al.) Chapter 3 in Ultra Wideband Wireless Communication (Wiley: New York, 2006)

Communications & Information Theory

• Information Theoretic Security, With Y. Liang and S. Shamai. (Now Publishers: Delft, The Netherlands, 2009), to appear.
• “The Wiretap Channel with Noisy Feedback: Encryption over the Channel,” (w. L. Lai and H. El-Gamal). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 54 (11) 5059-5067, 2008.
• “Secure Communications over Fading Channels,” (with Y. Liang and S. Shamai). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 54 (6) 2470-2492, 2008.
• “Joint Source and Channel Coding for MIMO Systems: Is it Better to be Robust or Quick?” (w. T. Holliday and A. Goldsmith) IEEE Trans. Information Theory 54 (4) 1393-1405,  2008.
• “Finite-Dimensional Bounds on Zm and Binary LDPC Codes with Belief Propagation Decoders,” (w. C.-C. Wang and S. Kulkarni). IEEE Trans. Information Theory 53 (1) 56 – 81, 2007.

 Stochastic Analysis & Systems

• Quickest Detection. With Olympia Hadjiliadis (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• “Multisource Bayesian Sequential Change Detection,” (w. S. Dayanik and S. Sezer).  Annals of Applied Probability 18 (2) 552-559, 2008.
•  “Quickest Detection of a Minimum of Two Poisson Disorder Times,” (w. E. Bayraktar) SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 46 (1) 308-331, 2007.
•  “Consistency in Models for Distributed Learning,” (w. J. Predd and S. Kulkarni) IEEE Trans. Information Theory 52 (1) 52-63, 2006.
•  “Bandit Problems with Side Observations,” (w. C.-C. Wang and S. Kulkarni) IEEE Trans. Automatic Control 50 (3) 338-355, 2005.

Mathematical Finance

• “Optimal Time to Change Premiums,” (w. E. Bayraktar). Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 68 (1), 125-158, 2008.
• “Projecting the Forward Rate Flow onto a Finite Dimensional Manifold,” (w. E. Bayraktar and L. Chen) International J. Theoretical and Applied Finance 9 (5) 777-785, 2006.
• “Consistency Problems with Jump-Diffusion Models,” (w. E. Bayraktar and L. Chen) Applied Mathematical Finance 12 (2) 101-119, 2005.
• “Mixed Default Modelling,” (w. L. Chen and D. Filipovic) Risk 17 (11) 111-115, 2004.
• “Quadratic Term Structure Models for Risk-Free and Defaultable Rates,” (with L. Chen and D. Filipovic) Mathematical Finance 14 (4) 515-526, 2004.

Patents

• “Methods and Systems for Using Pulsed Radar for Communications Transparent to Radar Function,” (w. D. Meyers, et al.). U. S. Patent Pending: Application No. 11/552,372; filed October 24, 2006; claims allowed September 27, 2008. [Assigned to Honeywell.]
• “Linear Receivers for Time-Hopping Impulse Radio Systems,” (w. S. Gezici, et al.). U. S. Patent No. 7,349,458. Issued March 25, 2008.  [Assigned to Mitsubishi.]
• “Method and System for Acquiring Ultra-Wide-Bandwidth Communications Signals Using Average Block Searches,” (w. A. Molisch, et al.) U. S. Patent 7,164,720. Issued January 16, 2007.  [Assigned to Mitsubishi.]
• “Method and Apparatus for Received Uplinked-Signal Based Adaptive Downlink Diversity Within a Communication System,” (w. L. R. Brothers, Jr., et al.)  U. S. Patent 7,095,987. Issued Aug. 22, 2006. [Assigned to Texas Instruments]
• “Method and Apparatus for Scheduling of Switched Multibeam Antennas in a Multiple Access Environment,” (w. A. Logothetis) U. S. Patent 6,968,022.  Issued November 22, 2005.