Tim Davidson received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, in 1991 and the D.Phil. degree in engineering science from the University of Oxford, U.K., in 1995.
He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, where he holds the (Tier II) Canada Research Chair in Communication Systems and is serving as Associate Director of the School of Computational Engineering and Science. He has previously held research positions with the Communications Research Laboratory, McMaster University; the Adaptive Signal Processing Laboratory, UWA; and the Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth. His research interests lie in the general areas of communications, signal processing, and control.
Dr. Davidson was awarded the 1991 J. A. Wood Memorial Prize (for "the most outstanding [UWA] graduand" in the pure and applied sciences), and the 1991 Rhodes Scholarship for Western Australia. He has been nominated for a (faculty-wide) undergraduate teaching award and a (university-wide) graduate supervision award at McMaster University. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE transactions on Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, and Circuits and Systems II, and he has served as a Guest Co-Editor of issues of the IEEE journals on Selected Areas in Communications and Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Optimization and Engineering, and as Vice-Chair-Elect of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking. Dr. Davidson is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario
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