Dr. Moeness Amin, received his Ph.D. degree in 1984 from University of Colorado, 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 Individual Technical Achievement Award from the European Association of Signal Processing, and the Recipient of the 2010 NATO Scientific Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2001; Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering, 2007; and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2010. Dr. Amin is a Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000; Recipient of the Chief of Naval Research Challenge Award, 2010; Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2003-2004; Active Member of the Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts; Recipient Villanova University Outstanding Faculty Research Award, 1997; and the Recipient of the IEEE Philadelphia Section Award, 1997. He is a member of IEEE, SPIE, EURASIP, ION, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Dr. Amin has over 450 journal and conference publications in the areas of Wireless Communications, Time-Frequency Analysis, Smart Antennas, Waveform Design and Diversity, Interference Cancellation in Broadband Communication Platforms, Anti-Jam GPS, Target Localization and Tracking, Direction Finding, Channel Diversity and Equalization, Ultrasound Imaging and Radar Signal Processing. He is a recipient of seven best paper awards.

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 Company, 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 currently serves on the Overview Board of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Signal Processing Journal. He was a Plenary Speaker at ICASSP 2010. Dr. Amin was the Special Session Co-Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 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, 2000. He was the General and Organization Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, 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, and served as a Session Chair in several technical meetings. Dr. Amin organized seven Workshops and 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 was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing May-09 Special Issue on Remote Sensing of Building Interior, and a Guest Editor of the ET Signal Processing December-09 Special Issue on Time-Frequency Approach to Radar Detection, Imaging, and Classification.

In 2009, Dr. Amin was an ARC Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. In 1992, he spent a Sabbatical at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He 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. Dr. Amin 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
Center Coordinator
Center for Advanced Communications Phone: 610.519.4599 
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