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NJIT professor Alexander Haimovich named to endowed chair in electrical engineering

Grant and Award Announcement

New Jersey Institute of Technology

NJIT Professor Alexander Haimovich has been named the new Ying Wu Endowed Chair in Wireless Telecommunications in the NJIT Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Newark College of Engineering.

Haimovich recently served as the director of the New Jersey Center for Wireless Telecommunications, a state-funded consortium. Members include NJIT, Princeton University, Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology. Haimovich has been at NJIT since 1992. Prior to then, he served in a variety of capacities in the industry including Chief Scientist of a consulting firm and senior staff consultant for AEL Industries.

In 2003, Haimovich served as chair of the Communication Theory Symposium at Globecom. He was for many years an associate editor for IEEE Communications Letters and more recently a guest editor for the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Turbo Coding.

Haimovich received his doctorate in systems from the University of Pennsylvania, his master's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Technion, Haifa, Israel.

His research interests focus on advanced radar, sensing, and communication systems including multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar, geolocation, compressed-sensing for target localization, and signal design. Over the years, Haimovich's research has been supported by the US Air Force, National Science Foundation, Army, and industry.

The Ying Wu Endowed Chair is supported by a gift of $1.5 million from Ying Wu, founder of a highly-successful telecommunications firm, who earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Newark College of Engineering at NJIT in 1988.

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