Michael D. Zoltowski 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. In Fall 1986, he joined the faculty of Purdue University where he currently holds the position of Professor of Electrical Engineering. In this capacity, he was the recipient of the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor Award for 1989-1990 and the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award for 1990-1991. He was the recipient of a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation in 1987. During Summer 1987, he held a position of Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Ocean Systems Center in San Diego, CA.

Dr. Zoltowski was the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1991 Paper Award (Statistical Signal and Array Processing Technical Area). 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, 1998. He has served as a consultant to the General Electric Company. He presently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters and has served as past editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Within the IEEE Signal Processing Society, he is a member of the Board of Governors, Secretary-Elect for a 3 year term starting 1 January 1999, a member of the Communications Technical Committee, and a member of the Education Committee.

His present research interests include space-time adaptive processing and blind antenna array beamforming for all areas of mobile and wireless communications, radar, and GPS. He has taught courses in digital signal processing and digital communications at all levels.