Yeheskel Bar-Ness
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Yeheskel Bar-Ness is a Distinguished Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey. It is often also referred to as Newark College of Engineering ....

 (NJIT).
He is a prominent expert in wireless communications and signal processing and directs the Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR) at NJIT to improve many aspects of wireless technology.

Education

Bar-Ness received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Technion in Haifa
Haifa
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, Israel
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, and a doctorate from Brown University
Brown University
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.

Career

Bar-Ness has published more than 200 papers throughout this research life in more than 40 year. He has a U.S. patent on smart antennas.

He has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on research grants or contracts supported by the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
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, the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, the United States Army
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, the United States Air Force
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 and the Naval Oceanic Center.

He is the Founder and Editor-in Chief of the journal of IEEE Communications Letters.

His current research interests include adaptive multiuser detection, array processing and interference cancellation, and wireless mobile and personal communications.

Honors and Awards

  • He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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     (IEEE).
  • Recipient of the Kaplan Prize (1973).
  • Named an Inventor of the Year by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).

Doctoral students

According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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, Bar-Ness mentored a total 23 doctoral students (total of 24 descendants) at Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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 and New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey. It is often also referred to as Newark College of Engineering ....

including Alexander Mircea Haimovich (1 descendant).

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