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Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He has authored more than 270 publications in the
area of array signal processing, time-frequency analysis, compressive sensing, and optimization with applications in radar,
communications, and navigation. He is an associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and serves on the editorial board of the journal Signal Processing. He was an associate
editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters during 2006-2010. He
is a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical
Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Senior
Member of the IEEE and SPIE.
Fauzia Ahmad (fauzia.ahmad@villanova.edu) received her
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1997. Since 2002, she has been
with the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova
University, Pennsylvania, where she is now a research professor
and the director of the Radar Imaging Lab. She has authored
more than 170 publications in the areas of radar imaging, radar
signal processing, compressive sensing, and array signal processing. She serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Letters, IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation Journal, and SPIE/IS&T
Journal of Electronic Imaging. She is a member of the Radar
Systems Panel of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Society and a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel
Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She
is a Senior Member of the IEEE and SPIE.
K.C. (Dominic) Ho (hod@missouri.edu) received his
Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, in 1991. Since September 1997, he
has been with the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he
is currently a professor in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department. His research interests include sensor
array processing; elder care; source localization, detection,
and estimation; wireless communications; and the development of efficient signal processing algorithms for various
applications. He served as the chair of the Sensor Array and
Multichannel Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society during 2013-2014. He was an associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2003
to 2006 and from 2009 to 2013 and IEEE Signal Processing
Letters from 2004 to 2008. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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