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Director of the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University
Director of the Wireless Communications and Positioning Lab, Villanova University
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Villanova University.

Biographical Sketch
Engineering Project Leadership

Contact information

Moeness G. Amin
Center for Advanced Communications
Villanova University
Tolentine 119
Villanova, PA 19085
Phn: (610) 519-4263
Fax: (610) 519-6118
e-mail: moeness.amin@villanova.edu

Areas of Expertise

Blind Equalizations

Digital Signal Processing

Array Signal Processing

Smart Antennas

Time-Frequency Analysis

Radar Imaging

Education

Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1984
M.S.E.E. Univ of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 1980
B.S.E.E. Cairo University, Egypt, 1976

Professional Service and Recognition

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (2001).
Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) (2006).
IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2003/2004.
Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000).
Recipient of the prestigious IEEE Philadelphia Section Award for 1997 for “Outstanding Intellectual and Organizational Contributions to the IEEE Philadelphia Section in the Area of Signal Processing”.
Recipient of the 1997 Villanova University Outstanding Faculty Research Award.
US Delegation Member (two times) to the NATO meeting on Radar Systems and Synthetic Aperture Radars .
US Representative (three times) to NATO Task Force on Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging.
US Invitee (two times) to NATO Conference on Radar Systems and Synthetic Aperture Radars.
Member of the Committee on Science and the Arts on the Franklin Institute (2000-present).
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (8/1/96-8/1/98).
Guest Editor, Journal of Franklin Institute, Special Issue, Advances in Indoor Imaging, July 2008.
Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Special Issue, January 2009.
Guest Editor to the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Darmstadt University of Technology, 2007.
Recipient of the “Certificate of Appreciation” from Nanyang Technological University, 2007.
Technical Program Chair for 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Marrakech, Morocco, December 2002.
General and Organization Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Pocono Maner Inn, Pocono, PA, August 2000.
General and Organization Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Philadelphia, PA, October 1994.
Co-Chair, Special Sessions, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal processing, 2008.
Chairman of the Local Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Philadelphia Section (1990-1995).
Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications (1997-2001).
Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Statistical Signal and Array Processing (1995-1997).
Session Chair in several national and international conferences.
Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (2001-Present).
Member of the Conference Committee on Wireless Sensors and Processing of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium (2002-Present).
Member of he Technical Committee of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
Member of the Technical Committee of the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference (Radarcon 2008).
Member of the Conference Committee of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications.
Member of the Technical Committee of 2004 International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology.
Member of the Technical Committee of 2003 International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology.
Member of the Technical Committee of 1999-Present SPIE, Digital Wireless Communication Conference.
Member of the Technical Committee of 1998 IEEE Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis.
Member of the Technical Committee of 1996 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing.
Guest Editor to the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
Invited Speaker by industry, academic institutions, and professional societies to give technical seminars and presentations.
Served on several Ph.D. external examinations for Australia, Singapore, Canada, Germany, Egypt, and United States.
Served on numerous Tenure and promotion cases in US and abroad.
Organizer of the IEEE Philadelphia Section All Day Seminar on Smart Antennas, May 1998.
Organizer of the IEEE Philadelphia Section All Day Seminar on Advanced Signal Processing Applications in Wireless Communications, October 1996.
Organizer of the IEEE Philadelphia Section All Day Seminar on Recent Advances in Adaptive Filtering, October 1995.
Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop on VU campus for honoring Dr. Andrew Viterbi (Communications), April 2005.
Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop on VU campus for honoring Dr. Bishnu Atal (Speech Processing), April 2002.
Organizer of the Franklin Institute Workshop on VU campus for honoring Dr. Bernard Widrow (Biomedical), April 2000.
Reviewer of the Electrons and Communications Engineering programs, Ajam university, UAE, 2005.
Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (SP) (20 years).
Reviewer of the European Signal Processing Journal (10 years).
Reviewer of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (8 years).
Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation (12 years).
Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (8 year).
Reviewer of the Signal Processing Journal (10 years).
Reviewer of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing every year since 1994.
Reviewer of the National Science Foundation (3 years).
Reviewer of numerous IEEE Workshops and Symposia since 1990.