Yeheskel Bar-Ness
Yeheskel Bar-Ness is a Distinguished Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is a prominent expert in wireless communications and signal processing and directs the Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR) at NJIT to improve many aspects of wireless technology.
Education
Bar-Ness received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and a doctorate from Brown University.
Career
Bar-Ness has published more than 200 papers throughout this research life in more than 40 year. He has a U.S. patent on smart antennas.
He has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on research grants or contracts supported by the National Science Foundation, the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, the United States Army, the United States Air Force and the Naval Oceanic Center.
He is the Founder and Editor-in Chief of the journal of IEEE Communications Letters.
His current research interests include adaptive multiuser detection, array processing and interference cancellation, and wireless mobile and personal communications.
Honors and Awards
- He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Recipient of the Kaplan Prize (1973).
- Named an Inventor of the Year by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (2006)[1].
Doctoral students
According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project[2], Bar-Ness mentored a total 23 doctoral students (total of 24 descendants) at Tel Aviv University, University of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Institute of Technology including Alexander Mircea Haimovich (1 descendant).
References
- ^ http://www.njit.edu/news/2006/2006-268.php "NJIT : NJIT Professor Named an Inventor of the Year by the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame"
- ^ http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=14415 "Mathematics Genealogy Project : Yeheskel Bar-Ness"