Dr. Moeness Amin, Ph.D. received his B.Sc. degree in 1976 from Cairo University, Egypt, M. Sc. degree in 1980 from University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, and his Ph.D. degree in 1984 from University of Colorado, Boulder. All degrees are in Electrical Engineering. In 1984, Dr. Amin joined the University of Colorado, Denver as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He has been on the Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University since 1985. In 2002, he became the Director of the Center for Advanced Communications, College of Engineering.

Dr. Amin is the recipient of the 2009 Technical Achievement Award from the European Association of Signal Processing; a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal; IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2003-2004; Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering; Member of the Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts; Recipient of the 1997 Villanova University Outstanding Faculty Research Award; Recipient of the 1997 IEEE Philadelphia Section Award for "Outstanding Intellectual and Organizational Contributions to the IEEE Philadelphia Section in the Area of Signal Processing." He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Dr. Amin has over 400 journal and conference publications in the areas of Wireless Communications, Time-Frequency Analysis, Smart Antennas, Waveform Design and Diversity, Secure Communications, Interference Cancellation in Broadband Communication Platforms, Anti-Jam GPS, Target Tracking, Direction Finding, Channel Diversity and Equalization, and Radar Systems.

Dr. Amin has received federal research funds from DARPA, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Rome Lab (RL), US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), US Army Research Lab (ARL), US Government Office of Research and Development, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). His industry sponsors include General Electric, Lockheed Martin, the Boeing Campany, InterDigital Communication Corp, Comcast Cellular, BAE Systems, and the Sarnoff Corporation. He has two US patents and served as a consultant to Micronetics Wireless, ELCOM Technology Corporation, Ablaze Systems, Inc., Rajant Corporation, VerdaSee Solutions, Inc., and VIZ Manufacturing Company. Dr. Amin is a three-time recipient of Villanova University Faculty Summer Research Grant.

Dr. Amin was the Special Session Co-Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2002. Dr. Amin was the General and Organization Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Pocono Manor Inn, Pocono Manor, Pa, August 2000. He was the General and Organization Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Philadelphia, PA, October 1994. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing during 1996-1998. He was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications during 1998-2002. He was a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Statistical Signal and Array Processing during 1995-1997. He has given several keynote and plenary talks, served as a Session Chair in several technical meetings, and is a reviewer for seven journals. Dr. Amin organized seven "All-Day Seminars" for the Franklin Institute Medal Program and the IEEE Philadelphia Section.

Dr. Amin was the Guest Editor of the Journal of Franklin Institute September-08 Special Issue on Advances in Indoor Radar Imaging. He is the Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing May-09 Special issue on Remote Sensing of Building Interior. Dr. Amin is the Co-Guest editor of IET Signal Processing December-09 Special Issue on Time-Frequency Approach to Radar Detection, Imaging, and Classification

In 1992, Dr. Amin spent a Sabbatical at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, and was a Summer Research Fellow at Rome Lab, US Air Force in 1994. He was a Visiting Professor at the Technology University of Malaysia during the summer of 1997. He was a speaker and the founder of the three-day intensive short course "Advances in Time-Frequency Signal Processing with Applications," which was offered annually from 1990-1997 at Villanova University, University of Michigan, and Singapore.

Dr. Moeness Amin Director Center for Advanced Communications Phone: 610.519.4263

Janice J. Moughan Administrative Coordinator Center for Advanced Communications
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