Alex B. Gershman (gershman@ieee.org) received his Diploma and ...

Alex B. Gershman (gershman@ieee.org) received his Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in
Radiophysics from the Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1990,
respectively. From 1984 to 1999, he held several full-time and visiting research positions
in Russia, Switzerland, and Germany. In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as Associate
Professor, where he became a Full Professor in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he held a
visiting professorship at the Department of Communication Systems, University of
Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany. From April 2005, he has been with the Darmstadt
University of Technology, as a Professor and Head of the Communication Systems
Group (FG Nachrichtensysteme). His research interests span the areas of signal
processing and wireless communications, with primary emphasis on spatial diversity in
MIMO communications and space-time coding, multi-user communications, statistical
signal and array processing, robust adaptive beamforming, parameter estimation and
detection, spectral analysis, and physics-based signal processing for sonar, radar, and
seismology. He has (co-)authored several book chapters, some 90 journal papers and
some 140 referred conference papers on these subjects. He has also co-edited two books:
High-Resolution and Robust Signal Processing, Marcel Dekker, 2003 (with Y. Hua and
Q. Cheng), and Space-Time Processing for MIMO Communications, Wiley, 2005 (with
N.D. Sidiropoulos).
Dr. Gershman was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
(1999-2005). He is on Editorial Boards of EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking and EURASIP Signal Processing Journal. He was a
Guest Editor of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing in 2004. He has been
a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Technical
Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1999-present), and from 2005 he
has been a Vice-Chair of this TC. He has been a member of the Signal Processing Theory
and Methods (SPTM) TC of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2005. He was a
keynote speaker at the NATO Int. Symposium on Smart Antennas, Chester, UK, April
2003 and the IEEE Int. Conf. on Antenna Theory and Techniques (ICATT’05),
Sevastopol, Ukraine, 2004; and delivered numerous invited talks worldwide. He was
Technical Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and
Information Technology (ISSPIT’03), Darmstadt, Germany, December 2003; and Co-
Chair of the ITG/IEEE International Workshop on Smart Antennas, Duisburg, Germany,
April 2005. He is also Technical Co-Chair of the Fourth IEEE Sensor Array and
Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop, Waltham, MA, USA, June 2006; and
General Co-Chair of the First IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances
in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP’05), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December
2005. He has been a member of technical committees of some 20 international
conferences and workshops including IEEE ICASSP, IEEE SAM and SSP Workshops,
IEEE VTC, EUSIPCO, IEEE WirelessComm, and IEEE PIMRC.
Dr. Gershman is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper
Award for his work on robust minimum variance beamforming. He also co-authored the
paper that received the 2003 Best Paper Award of the Information Technology Society
(ITG) of the German Institute of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information

Technology (VDE). He was a recipient of the 2002 Young Explorers Prize from the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) which has honored Canada's top
twenty researchers aged forty or under. He received 2001 Wolfgang Paul Award from the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and German Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF), Germany; and the 2000 Premier's Research Excellence Award, Ontario, Canada
for his outstanding research. He was a recipient of the 1995-1996 Alexander von
Humboldt Fellowship (Germany); the 1994 Swiss Academy of Engineering Science and
Branco Weiss Fellowship (Switzerland), the 1994 Outstanding Young Scientist
Presidential Fellowship (Russia), and the 1993 International Union of Radio Science
(URSI) Young Scientist Award.