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Professor Poor joins ranks of NAE
H.
Vincent Poor *77, professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering, was elected to membership in the National Academy
of Engineering in 2001. Election to the academy is one of
the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
Academy membership honors those who have made "important contributions
to engineering theory and practice, including significant
contributions to the literature of engineering theory and
practice and those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment
in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology."
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H. Vincent Poor *77
Photo by Frank
Wojciechowski
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Professor Poor was cited for his "contributions
to signal detection and estimation and their applications
in digital communications and signal processing."
He joined the faculty in the Department
of Electrical Engineering in 1990. In 1996 he became an affiliated
faculty member of the Program in Applied and Computational
Mathematics. Previously, he was a professor of electrical
and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Poor earned his bachelor's degree
and master's of science degree from Auburn University, Auburn,
Ala. His Princeton Ph.D. is in electrical engineering and
computer science. His research interests are statistical signal
processing, wireless communications, and multiuser detection.
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