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,  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, and as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.  Recent recognition of his work includes the 2005 IEEE Education Medal and the 2007 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award.

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.
• “On the Capacity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Delay Constraints,” (w. C. Comaniciu) IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications
• “Call Admission Control in Wireless Multimedia Networks,” (w. R. Rao, et al.) IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 21 (5) 51–58, 2004.

Wireless Systems

• Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception. With X. Wang (Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004)
• “The Continuous-Time Peak-to-Average Power Ratio of OFDM Signals Using Complex Modulation Schemes,” (w. D. Wong and S. Pun). IEEE Trans. Communications, to appear.
•  “Ultrawideband Geolocation.” (w. S. Gezici, et al.) Chapter 3 in New York, 2006)
• “Capacity of Multiple Antenna Systems in Rician Fading,” (w. S. Jayaweera), IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications 4 (3) 1102-1111, 2005.

Communications & Information Theory

• MIMO Wireless Communications. With E. Biglieri, et al. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2007)
• “Joint Source and Channel Coding for MIMO Systems,” (w. T. Holliday and A. Goldsmith) IEEE Trans. Information Theory, to appear.
• “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.
•  “The Noncoherent Rician Fading Channel - Part I: Structure of the Capacity-Achieving Input,” and “… - Part II: Spectral Efficiency in the Low-Power Regime,” (w. M. Gursoy and S. Verdú) IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications 4 (5) 2193-2221, 2005.

Stochastic Analysis & Systems

• Quickest Detection. With Olympia Hadjiliadis (Cambridge University Press, 2008), forthcoming.
• “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

• “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

• “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.
• “Method and Apparatus for High-Resolution Tracking Via Mono-Pulse Beam-Forming in a Communication System,” (w. L. R. Brothers, Jr., et al.) U. S. Patent 6,930,637.  Issued August 16, 2005. [Assigned to Texas Instruments.]