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is the recipient of the 1994 Alan Berman Research Publication
Award (Naval Research Lab) and the 1999 IEEE Young Author
Best Paper Award in the area of sensor array and multichannel
signal processing. His research interests include statistical signal processing, detection, estimation, and information theory.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

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