"For
for enhancing quality and expanding content of Communications
Society publications, for improving publications operations
and review processes, and for outstanding performance as
Director of Journals and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions
on Communications and IEEE Communications Letters."
Desmond
P. Taylor
 Desmond
P. Taylor was born in Noranda, Quebec, Canada on July 5, 1941.
He received the B.Sc.(Eng.) and M.Sc.(Eng.) degrees from Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1963 and 1967 respectively,
and the Ph.D. degree in 1972 in Electrical Engineering from
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. From July
1972 until June 1992, He was with the Communications Research
Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering of McMaster
University. In July 1992, he joined the University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand where he is now the Tait Professor
of Communications. His research interests are centred on digital
wireless communications systems with a primary focus on the
development of robust, bandwidth-efficient modulation and
coding techniques, and the development of iterative algorithms
for joint equalisation and decoding of the fading, dispersive
channels typical of mobile radio communications. Secondary
interests include problems in synchronisation, multiple access
and networking. He is the author or co-author of approximately
180 published papers and holds two U.S. patents in spread
spectrum communications. One paper won the S.O. Rice Award
for the best Transactions paper in Communication Theory of
2001.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Society
of New Zealand, and a Fellow of both the Engineering Institute
of Canada and the Institute of Professional Engineers of New
Zealand.
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