A.B. Gershman was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1962. He received the Diploma in Radiophysics (equivalent to MScEng) and the Candidate of Science Degree in Radiophysics (equivalent to the PhD in Electrical Engineering) from the Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1984 and 1990, respectively. From 1984 to 1987 he was with the Gorky Radiotechnical Institute as an Engineer. From 1987 to 1989 he worked at the Radioastronomy Measurements and Antenna Department of Gorky Radiophysical Institute as a Research Scientist. From 1989 to 1999, he was with the Hydroacoustic and Signal Processing Department of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Science, Nizhny Novgorod, as a Senior Research Scientist. From summer 1994 to winter 1995, he was a Guest Research Fellow at the Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was involved in the advanced channel coding research in a framework of Digital Television for Terrestrial Broadcasting (dTTb) project. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Gershman held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Signal Theory Division, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Research Associate at Ruhr University. In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University, initially as an Associate Professor and became a Professor in 2002. Since March 2002, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication Systems, Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg, where he heads the Smart Antenna Research Team (SmART).
Dr. Gershman's current research interests include statistical signal and array processing; adaptive beamforming and smart antennas for cellular communications (including both receive and transmit beamforming); space-time coding, MIMO systems and transmit diversity; multiuser communications; high-resolution direction finding, parameter estimation and signal detection theory; modern spectral analysis; robust array processing for random inhomogeneous media; towed array processing; and real-world applications of modern signal processing to radar, sonar, communications, and seismology. He has published over 200 referred journal and conference papers in these areas and has been a member of Technical Committees for several international conferences and workshops. He is a co-editor (with Y. Hua and Q. Cheng) of the book High-Resolution and Robust Signal Processing, Marcel Dekker, 2003 and also a co-editor (with N. Sidoropoulos) of the forthcoming book Space-Time Processing for MIMO Communications, Wiley & Sons, to be published in 2005. He was a Technical Co-chair of the IEEE Int. Symp. on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT'03), Darmstadt, Germany, December 2004.
He received the 1993 Young Scientist Award of 24th URSI General Assembly, the 1994 Governmental (Presidential) Outstanding Young Scientist Fellowship (Russia), the 1994-1995 Swiss Academy of Technical Science (SATW) and Branco Weiss Fellowships, and the 1995-1996 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany). He is a recipient of 2001 Wolfgang Paul Award "in recognition of outstanding achievements in science" (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany) with the total amount of 4,000,000 German Marks (DM), and the 2000 Premier Research Excellence Award (Ontario, Canada) "for research in statistical array signal processing with application to robust adaptive beamforming and smart antennas". He is also a recepient of the 2002 Young Explorers Prize from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). The latter prize honors Canada's top 20 researchers aged 40 or under.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and is listed in multiple Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in America editions. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and elected Member of Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Guest Co-Editor of the special issue on Advances in Smart Antennas of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, to be published in 2004.