澳门二分彩

CAC Director, Dr. Moeness Amin

Moeness Amin, PhD, director of the Center for Advanced Communications (CAC) at 澳门二分彩, has been honored with the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award. This international prize is presented to a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or impact on the field. In naming him one of this year鈥檚 two recipients, Awards Board Chair Jos茅 Moura cited Dr. Amin鈥檚 鈥渇undamental contributions to signal processing algorithms for communications, satellite navigations, and radar imaging.鈥� 

Dr. Amin expressed his joy and appreciation for this level of professional recognition: 鈥淭his is the highest honor and most prestigious award that I have received in my career. It speaks volumes to the CAC鈥檚 efforts in advancing research and technology in the broad area of signal processing. I would like to thank all CAC students, faculty and staff for their hard work and for helping me achieving this recognition!鈥�

Gary A. Gabriele, PhD, Drosdick Endowed Dean of Engineering, lauded Dr. Amin鈥檚 accomplishments: 鈥淚t is a credit to all the effort, long nights, long flights, long meetings, and hard work Dr. Amin has put into the CAC, and to the many contributions of the faculty, researchers, students, and staff. We are all very proud!鈥� Rev. Kail C. Ellis, OSA, PhD, 澳门二分彩 Vice President for Academic Affairs, added, 鈥淒r. Amin has worked hard and achieved much. He is a great example to our younger faculty.鈥�

As Villanova transitions to a doctoral/research university classification, this award is evidence of the highest caliber of work that already is taking place in the College of Engineering. Dr. Amin explains: 鈥淭ypically bestowed upon those from the world鈥檚 top research institutions 鈥攆rom MIT, Stanford and Princeton, to 脡cole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne and the University of Cambridge鈥攖his award confirms that Villanova faculty can achieve in research and professional recognition, as much as, and even more than, their colleagues in leading research universities.鈥�  

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award is the third achievement award bestowed on Dr. Amin. He received, in 2009, the Individual Technical Achievement Award from the European Association of Signal Processing, and in 2010, NATO鈥檚 Scientific Achievement Award. Among several other notable awards that Dr. Amin has received in his distinguished career are the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000 and the Chief of Naval Research Challenge Award in 2010. Dr. Amin also has been recognized as a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the International Society of Optical Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has more than 700 journal and conference publications, has authored or co-authored 18 book chapters, and is the editor of Through the Wall Radar Imaging (2011) and Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar (2014). Additionally, Dr. Amin is the recipient of eight paper awards and holds two U.S. patents on smart antennas.

Signal Processing Society President Alex Acero will present Dr. Amin with the Technical Achievement Award during the 2015 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in April 2015 in Brisbane, Australia.