Brief IEEE Biography:Michael D. Zoltowski was born in Philadelphia, PA. He received both the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Drexel University in 1983 and the Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. From 1982 to 1986, he was an Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellow and he was a Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Ocean Systems Center in San Diego, CA during 1987. In Fall 1986, he joined the faculty of Purdue University where he currently holds the position of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In this capacity, he was the recipient of the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor Award for 1989-1990, the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award for 1990-1991, and the 2001-2002 The Wilfred Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence. In August 2001, he was named a University Faculty Scholar by Purdue University (two selected from all of Engineering per year.)Dr. Zoltowski received the 2002 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Dr. Zoltowski was also the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1991 Paper Award (Statistical Signal and Array Processing Area), "The Fred Ellersick MILCOM Award for Best Paper in the Unclassified Technical Program" at the IEEE Military Communications (MILCOM '98) Conference, and a Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2000). He is also a co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society 2001 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award in the Field of Communications Systems for the paper, "A Space-Time Model for Frequency Nonselective Rayleigh Fading Channels with Applications to Space-Time Modems" appearing in the July 2000 issue of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Vol. 18, pp. 1175-1190). He was a 2003 Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Signal Processing Society. There are six Distinguished Lecturers chosen each year to represent the Society by giving lectures on their research around the world. The web site for the SPS Distinguished Lecturer Program indicates that ``The Society's Distinguished Lecturer Program provides means for chapters to have access to individuals who are well known educators and authors in the fields of signal processing, to lecture at Chapter meetings." He was also recently selected for the 2002 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society As posted at SPS Technical Achievement Award Information , ``The Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to the theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field. The prize shall be \$1500, a plaque and a certificate, and shall be presented at the ICASSP meeting held during the Spring following selection of the winner." The award will be conferred at ICASSP 2003 in Hong Kong during 6-10 April 2003. He is a contributing author to Adaptive Radar Detection and Estimation, Wiley, 1991, Advances in Spectrum Analysis and Array Processing, Vol. III, Prentice-Hall, 1994, and CRC Handbook on Digital Signal Processing, CRC Press, 1996. He has served as a consultant to several companies in the telecommunications industry. He has served as an associate editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Communications Letters. Within the IEEE Signal Processing Society, he has been a member of both the Technical Committee for the Statistical Signal and Array Processing Area He is currently a member of both the Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications (SPCOM), the Technical Committee on Sensor and Multichannel (SAM) Processing. In addition, from 1998 to 2001, he was a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors and Secretary of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of IEEE. His present research interests include space-time adaptive processing for all areas of mobile and wireless communications.
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