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Benjamin Friedlander
Professor Emeritus
Baskin School of Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Emeritus
Faculty
Emeriti
Electrical Engineering
Science and Technology
Statistics
Engineering Building 2
241B
Contact by email
SOE2
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1976.
M.S. Statistics, Stanford University, 1976.
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1972.
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1968.
Honors and Professional Activities
IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000).
Technical Achievement Award, Signal Processing Society (1989).
Fellow of the IEEE (1987).
Best Paper of the Year Award, EURASIP (1985).
ASSP Senior Award, IEEE ASSP Society (1983).
Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
General Chair, Asilomar Conference, and Computers, 2002.
Editorial board, Int'l Journal Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
Technical Program Chair, Asilomar Conference, 1994.
Vice Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter of the ASSP Society, 1989 - 1993.
Administrative Committee and of the Technical Committee
on Estimation and Modeling of the Signal Processing Society, 1985 - 1993.
Associate editor of the IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, 1983.
Professional Experience
UC Santa Cruz, Professor of Electrical Engineering
UC Davis, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1989-1999.
Signal Processing Technology, Ltd., President, 1988 - 1999.
Saxpy Computer Corporation, Director of Advanced Technology, 1985-1988.
Systems Control Tech., Manager Advanced Technology Division, 1976-1985.
Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Research Assistant
1973-1976, Lecturer and consultant 1976-1982.
MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, Vancouver, Design Engineer, 1973.
Israel Aircraft Industries, Consultant, 1972.
Electronic Research Department, M.O.D, Israel, Group Leader, 1968-1972.
Publications
Approximately 500 publications can be found on GoogleScholar and other on-line data bases.
An internationally known expert in statistical signal processing theory: detection, estimation, filtering; algorithm development and performance analysis. Extensive experience in applications of statistical signal processing to various engineering problems, including:
- Digital communications
- Wireless communications
- Antenna and sensor arrays
- Direction finding and Geo-location
- Radar and sonar systems
- Digital communications
- Wireless communications
- Array processing
- Geolocation
- Statistical signal processing
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