Dr. Alex Gershman

Professor

     Communications Research Laboratory  (Room 222)
     McMaster University
     1280 Main Street West
     Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1
     Canada
     Tel: + 1 (905) 525 9140 ext. 24094
     Fax: + 1 (905) 521 2922
gershman@ece.eng.mcmaster.ca

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Research interests

Statistical signal and array processing; robust adaptive beamforming; space-time coding and MIMO systems; SDMA and smart antennas for wireless communications; multiuser communications; physics-based signal processing with applications to randomly inhomogeneous media; underwater towed and matched-field array processing; signal processing for radar and seismology

Biography and publication list (updated almost weekly!)

  • brief bio sketch
  • Publications (more than 220 publications including co-edited books, book chapters, journal papers, and conference papers)

    • Awards and honors

  • 2002 Young Explorers Prize from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). This prize honors Canada's top 20 researchers in science and engineering aged 40 and under.

  • 2001 Wolfgang Paul Award "in recognition of outstanding achievements in science", Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. The total amount of this award is 4,000,000 German Marks. Wolfgang Paul Award has been recently announced to be the highest-amount research award in the world. In 2001, it was conferred for the first time upon 14 researchers worldwide and in all disciplines. Related link: SmART group in Germany that I have founded and co-supervise using Wolfgang Paul Award funding.

  • 2000 Premier Research Excellence Award "for research in statistical array signal processing with application to robust adaptive beamforming and smart antennas", Ontario, Canada.

  • listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, since 1999

  • listed in Who's Who in the World, since 2000

  • will be listed in Who's Who in America, since 2002

  • 2001 Outstanding Thesis Research Award received by Gershman's graduate student M. Pesavento, ECE Department, McMaster University

  • 1995-1996 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

  • 1994-1995 Swiss Academy of Technical Science and Branco Weiss Foundation Fellowship, Switzerland

  • 1994 Outstanding Young Researcher (Presidential) Fellowship, Russia

  • 1993 Young Scientist Award of 24th Assembly of Union of Radio Science Int. (URSI), Japan

    Editorial board memberships

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

    Guest editorships

  • Guest co-editor of a special issue Advances in Smart Antennas of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, to be published in 2004.

    Professional memberships

  • IEEE Senior Member

  • Member of Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

    Conference organization activities

  • Technical co-chair, IEEE Int. Symp. on Signal Processing and Inform. Technology (ISSPIT'04), 2004, Darmstadt, Germany, Dec. 2004

  • Co-chair, ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, Duisburg, Germany, April 2005

  • TC member for numerous IEEE and non-IEEE conferences and workshops

    Guest researchers

  • Dr. Mohammad Gharavi-Alkansari(Sept. 2002 - March 2003)

  • Keyvan Zarifi (Sept. 2002 - March 2003)

  • Ayman Abdel-Samad (Nov. 2002 - March 2003)

    Former and current graduate students supervised and co-supervided

  • Marius Pesavento (M.Eng., 1999-2000, Outstanding Thesis Research Award, ECE Department, Jan. 2001; now with Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)

  • Haiyan Tang (M.Eng., 2000-2003, co-supervised)

  • Jing Liu (M.Eng., 2001-2003, co-supervised, now with University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Keyvan Zarifi (Ph.D., from 2002)

  • Yue Rong (Ph.D., from 2002)

  • Aboulnasr Ibrahim Hassanien (Ph.D., from 2001)

  • Sherif Abd Elkader (Ph.D., from 2002, co-supervised)

  • Feifei Gao (M.Eng., from 2002)

  • Haibo Wang (Ph.D., from 2002, co-supervised)

  • Ziautdin Kamran (Ph.D., from 2002, co-supervised)

  • Rasha Ibrahim, (M.Eng., from 2002)

  • Amr El-Keyi, (Ph.D., from 2002)

    Teaching

  • COE 4TL4: Digital Signal Processing

    A fourth year course on the theory and applications of DSP (1st and 2nd terms, 1999; 1st term 2000).

  • COE 2SI4: Data Structures, Algorithms, and Discrete Mathematics

    A second year course on data abstraction and structures, theory of algorithms, and discrete math, with C examples. (1st term, 2000).

  • ECE 761: Advanced Topics in Digital Signal Processing

    A graduate course on the advanced topics of DSP (second term, 2000-2001) covering main topics of advanced DSP: matrix algebra for signal processing, statistical signal signal modeling and estimation; spectral estimation; AR, MA, and ARMA modeling; sensor array processing and parametric high-resolution direction finding methods; conventional and adaptive beamforming, adaptive filtering, and overview of applications to radar, sonar, wireless, seismology, and other fields.

  • EE 760: Stochastic Processes

    Core graduate course, under preparation, will be taught in 2002. Covers the following topics: probabilities and random variables, functions of random variables, central limit theorem, stochastic processes, stationarity and ergodicity, correlation functions and spectral densities, correlation matrices, Gaussian, Poisson, and Markov processes, basics of statistical signal processing and sample estimates, linear mean square estimation, harmonic analysis

    Selected ongoing projects

    Robust Space-Time Signal Processing With Applications to Wireless Communications, NSERC, Canada, 2003-2006

    Space-Time Processing for Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and German Ministry of Education and Research, joint project with Department of Communication Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, and Fraunhofer Institute, Duisburg, Germany, 2002-2005

    Space-Time Coding and Beamforming for MIMO Wireless Systems (PI: Prof. K.M.Wong), CITO, Canada, 2003-2006

    Robust Parameter Estimation of Multiple Sources with a Complicated Spatio-Temporal Structure in Sensor Arrays, Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology of Ontario, Canada, 2000-2005

    Selected past projects

    Robust Array Processing and Adaptive Beamforming for SDMA, NSERC, Canada.

    Robust Adaptive Beamforming with Applications to Telephony, Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO), Ontario, Canada.

    Advanced SDMA Beamforming Techniques for Wireless Communications, Bosch Telecom GmbH, Germany.

    Robust Statistical Signal Processing, German Foundation of Fundamental Research (DFG), Germany.

    Statistical Array Signal Processing with Application to Radar and Communications (SASPARC) , INTAS, Belgium.

    Array Processing for Radar Applications, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

    Channel Coding Methods with Application to Digital Television for Terrestrial Broadcasting (dTTb), Swiss Academy of Tech. Science / Branco Weiss Foundation, Switzerland.

    Multiple long-term grants from International Science Foundation (USA) and Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research concentrated on Sonar and Radar Signal Processing and on Investigation of Random Inhomogeneous Media Using Statistical SP Methods.

    Prof. Alex B. Gershman (gershman@ece.eng.mcmaster.ca)
    Last change: 21 April 2004.