POSITIONS
2011--2016
Head of Research, Department of Systems and Control, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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
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 (photo).
PUBLICATIONS
Approximately 800 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:
EDITORIAL BOARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Member (present or former) of the Editorial Boards of the following journals:
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) (photo).
2008-pres
Member of the European Academy of Sciences. (photo)
2009-pres
Member of the Royal Society of Sciences (the oldest scientific society in Sweden).
2016-pres
International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (photo)
2021-2022
Member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee
AWARDS AND HONORS
1989
Co-recipient of the IEEE ASSP Senior Award for work on Array Signal Processing (photo).
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
Fellow of IEEE elected "for contributions to statistical signal processing and system identification." (photo)
1996
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society .
1996
Recipient of the Shannon-Nyquist 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" (photo).
1998
Recipient of a Senior Individual Grant Award of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (photo).
1998
Co-recipient of the 1998 EURASIP Best Paper Award for Signal Processing (awarded in 1998 for the first time) (photo).
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" (photo).
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." (photo)
2000
Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal awarded for "outstanding contributions in the signal processing area" (photo1, photo2, photo3).
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) (photo).
2004
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" (photo1, photo2).
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 Wiener 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" (photo1, photo2).
2007
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). (photo)
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" (photo).
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.
2013
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" (photo).
2016
Recipient of the Atanasios Papoulis Award of EURASIP with the citation "For outstanding contributions to research and education in statistical signal processing, array signal processing, and waveform design" (photo).
2016
Recipient of Uppsala University's Rudbeck Gold Medal awarded "for extraordinary achievements in science" (photo1, photo2).
2017
Co-author of the paper that has received the IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award.
2018
Recipient of the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing with the citation "For broad contributions to research and education in statistical signal processing and its applications" (photo1, photo2, photo3).
2019
Recipient of the IEEE SPS C.F. Gauss Education Award with the citation "For lifetime contributions to education and mentoring in statistical signal processing" (photo1, photo2).
2021
Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) (photo).
2021
Life Fellow of IEEE "in recognition of the many years of membership and support of the activities of IEEE". (photo).
2022
Recipient of the IEEE SPS Sustained Impact Paper Award, which “honors the author(s) of a journal article of broad interest that has had sustained impact over many years”.
2023
Recipient of the IEEE SPS Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award, which "honors the author(s) of a column of exceptional merit and broad interest".
