IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society
Joint Paper Award
Xiaodong
Wang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
and Applied Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shanghai, China, in 1992; the M.S. degree in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 1995; and the
PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University
in 1998. From July 1998 to December 2001, he was an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas
A&M University. In January 2002, he joined the Department
of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, as an Assistant
Professor.
Dr. Wang's
research interests fall in the general areas of computing,
signal processing and communications. He has worked in the
areas of digital communications, digital signal processing,
parallel and distributed computing, nanoelectronics and quantum
computing, and has published extensively in these areas. His
current research interests include multiuser communications
theory and advanced signal processing for wireless communications.
He received the 1999 NSF CAREER Award. He currently serves
as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications,
the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications.
H. Vincent Poor (Ph.D. Princeton 1977) is a professor
of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he
is involved in teaching and research in wireless communications
and related fields. From 1977 until he joined the Princeton
faculty in 1990, he was on the faculty of the University of
Illinois. He has also held visiting and summer appointments
at a number of institutions in the US, Britain and Australia,
including Imperial College (London), where he has spent his
two sabbatical leaves.
Dr. Poor
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he
is a Fellow of the AAAS, the Acoustical Society of America,
the IEEE, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the
Optical Society of America. In 1990, he served as President
of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and in 1991-1992,
he served on the IEEE Board of Directors. He has received
a number of awards for his teaching and research, including
the 1992 Term an Award of the ASEE and the 2001 IEEE Graduate
Teaching Award.
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