Vincent Poor


Harold Vincent Poor FRS FREng is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also the Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a specialist in wireless telecommunications, signal processing and information theory. He has received many honorary degrees and election to national academies. He was also President of IEEE Information Theory Society. He is on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Foundation.

Education

Poor received a BSEE degree from Auburn University in 1972, and a MSEE from there in 1974. In 1977, he received his PhD from Princeton University. From 1977 - 1990, he was a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. From 1990, he joined Princeton University as a professor.

Research

His research interests lie in the areas of stochastic analysis, statistical signal processing and information theory, and their applications in a number of fields including wireless networks, social networks, and smart grid. This research work has attracted over 10,000 citations. He has published a book on Signal Detection and Estimation This book is considered the definitive reference in the subject. He was reported to have made a particular impact in the field of wireless communications.

Awards

He was elected a Member, National Academy of Science in 2011. ; he was previously elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of London, UK, and a Corresponding Fellow, RSE , International Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering , Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
He received the IEEE Eric Sumner Technical Field Award, the IET Ambrose Fleming Medal for Achievement in Communications Engineering, the Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Information Theory Society, the IEEE James H. Mulligan Education Medal and in 2017, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
He has received the degree of D.Eng. honoris causa from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ; the D.Tech. honoris causa, from Aalborg University in 2012; ; a D.Sc. honoris causa from University of Edinburgh and Honorary Doctorate at Aalto University, Finland in 2014. He was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degree during Syracuse University's 163rd commencement in May 2017.
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellow, Optical Society of America ; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers