Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Peter Stoica

POSITIONS

1998--present: Professor of Systems Modelling, Department of Systems and Control, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
1990--1998: Professor of System Identification and Signal Processing, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania.
1995--1997: Associate Professor and Docent in the Department of Systems and Control, Uppsala University.
1985--1991: Head of the Signal Processing Group, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.
1990--1991: Associate Dean of the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.
1972--1990: Assistant/Associate Professor, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.

VISITING/GUEST PROFESSOR POSITIONS

The Information Systems Lab, Stanford University, CA, USA.
The ECE Dept, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
The EE Dept, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The Dept of Applied Electronics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
The Dept of Systems and Control, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
The Dept of Signals, Sensors and Systems, the Royal Inst of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

EDUCATION and DEGREES

1972: MSc in automatic control, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.
1979: PhD in automatic control, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.
1993: Doctor honoris causa in science, Uppsala University.

PUBLICATIONS

Approximately 700 refereed technical conference contributions and journal papers on signals and systems modelling, signal processing, adaptive systems, spatial and temporal spectral analysis, signal detection and parameter estimation, radar, synthetic aperture radar imaging, array processing, biomedical signal analysis, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and wireless communications.

Coauthor of 12 books published by Ed. Academia , Ed. Tehnica, Springer-Verlag, Prentice-Hall, Cambridge University Press, Wiley and Prentice-Hall International. Also coauthor of 14 book chapters in volumes published by Pergamon, Wiley, Springer-Verlag, Academic Press, CRC Press, IEEE Press, SIAM Press, Marcel Dekker, Wiley and Prentice-Hall.

The most recent books coauthored: Introduction to Spectral Analysis (by P Stoica and R Moses), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1997; Spectral Analysis of Signals (by P Stoica and R Moses), Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2005; Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications (by E Larsson and P Stoica), Cambridge University Press, 2003; and Spectral Analysis of Signals: the Missing Data Case (by Y Wang, J Li and P Stoica), Morgan & Claypool Press, 2005.

Coeditor of 4 books: Signal Processing Advances in Wireless & Mobile Communications: Trends in Channel Estimation and Equalization , Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2001; Signal Processing Advances in Wireless & Mobile Communications: Trends in Single- and Multi-User Systems , Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2001; Robust Adaptive Beamforming , Wiley & Sons, 2006; and MIMO Radar Signal Processing , Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Coauthor of 2 US Patents on Robust Adaptive Beamforming, 2004 and 2005.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
My scientific interests lie in the general area of Signals and Systems Modelling.
My current specific scientific interests are the following:

Radar signal processing, Target feature extraction, Synthetic aperture radar imaging, Spatial diversity in wireless communications, Blind channel equalization, Echo cancellation, Biomedical applications, NMR spectroscopy.
Statistical signal processing, Detection and parameter estimation, Statistical performance analysis, Array signal processing, Robust adaptive beamforming, Spectral analysis, Parameter estimation of sinusoidal signals, System identification from noise-corrupted data, Errors-in-variables modeling, Biased regression,Time series analysis and forecasting.

EDITORIAL BOARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Member (present or former) of the Editorial Boards of the following journals:

Journal of Forecasting (Wiley),
Signal Processing (Elsevier),
Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (Birkhäuser),
Digital Signal Processing--A Review Journal (Academic Press),
Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Kluwer).
Signal Processing Mag (IEEE).

Also, member of the IPC for several international symposia and congresses and of the International Nomination Panel for the Japan Prize. Frequent reviewer for several leading international journals.

1980--1988

Member of the Board of National Member Organization of IFAC

1981--1986

Director of the International Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Society.

1991--1998

Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy

1999--pres

Honorary member of the Romanian Academy

1994--2000

Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing

1996

Guest coeditor of the two special issues on Subspace Methods for Detection and Estimation of the journal Signal Processing.

1998

Guest coeditor of the special issue on Spectral Analysis Applications in Radar of the journal IEE Proceedings-Radar, Sonar and Navigation.

2002

Guest coeditor of the special tutorial issue on System Identification of the journal Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing.

2003

Guest coeditor of the special issue on Radar Signal Processing and its Applications of the journal Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing.

2006

Guest coeditor of the special issue on Advances in Subspace-based Techniques for Signal Processing and Communications of the Journal on Applied Signal Processing.

2010

Guest coeditor of the special issue on MIMO Radar and its Applications of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.

2001-2003

Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

2001-2008

Member of the Docent Board of the Faculty of Science and Technology

2001-pres

Member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the IEE Signal Processing Professional Network.

2003-pres

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (the world's oldest engineering academy).

2008-pres

Member of the European Academy of Sciences.

2009-pres

Member of the Royal Society of Sciences (the oldest scientific society in Sweden).

AWARDS AND HONORS

1989: Co-recipient of the IEEE ASSP Senior Award for work on Array Signal Processing.
1977 and 1989: Recipient of the Prizes awarded by the Academy of Sciences (Bucharest) for "outstanding work in the system identification and optimization areas."
1994--pres: Fellow of IEEE elected "for contributions to statistical signal processing and system identification."
1996--pres: Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society .
1996: Recipient of the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for "fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing with applications in time series analysis, system identification and array signal processing." This award "honors 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 recognized impact on the field".
1998: Recipient of a Senior Individual Grant Award of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.
1998: Co-recipient of the 1998 EURASIP Best Paper Award for Signal Processing (awarded in 1998 for the first time).
1999: Co-recipient of an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award that "honors the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society's technical scope, and appearing in one of the Society's Transactions".
2000: Co-recipient of the 2000 W.R.G. Baker Paper Prize Award which is "presented by the IEEE Board of Directors to the author or authors of the most outstanding paper reporting original work published in the Transactions, Journals, and Magazines of the IEEE Societies, or in the Proceedings of the IEEE."
2000: Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal awarded for "outstanding contributions in the signal processing area".
2002: Recipient of the EURASIP Individual Technical Achievement Award for "many personal contributions to the signal processing discipline" (awarded in 2002 for the first time).
2004: Co-recipient of the Bjorkenska Prize (Major Research Award of Uppsala University).
2005: Recipient of the IEE Achievement Medal awarded for "outstanding contributions to the field of Statistical Signal Processing".
2005: Co-author of the contribution that has received the Best Student Paper Award at the 39th Asilomar Conference on Systems, Signals and Computers.
2005: Included by ISI (the Institute of Science Information) on the list of the 250 most highly cited researchers in Engineering in the world.
2006: Recipient of the Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) for "outstanding contributions to the theory and application of statistical signal processing through fundamental research papers and prominent books". The Society Award "honors outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the IEEE SPS and outstanding leadership in that field. It is the highest-level award bestowed by the IEEE SPS".
2007--pres: Fellow of EURASIP elected for "contributions to modern spectral analysis" (EURASIP Fellowship, which is one of the Association's most prestigious honors, was awarded in 2007 for the first time).
2008: Co-recipient of the Barry Carlton Award of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, which "acknowledges what is judged the best paper in IEEE AES Transactions in each calendar year, and which is one of IEEE's oldest and AES highest honor".
2009: Co-author of the contribution that has received the Lockheed Martin Best ATR Student Paper Award at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference, Orlando, FL, 2009.
2010: Recipient of an Advanced Grant Award of the European Research Council.
2010: Co-author of the contribution that has received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, CIP 2010, Elba, Italy, 2010.
2011: Co-author of the contribution that has received the Best Student Paper Award at the 19th European Signal Processing Conference, Eusipco 2011, Barcelona, Spain, 2011.