Background Prof. Lee Swindlehurst received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from Brigham Young University in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1991. Prior to joining BYU, he was employed at ESL, Inc., in Sunnyvale, CA, from 1986-1990. He joined BYU's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in 1990, and he currently holds the position of Full Professor and Department Chair. During 1996-1997 he held a joint appointment as a visiting professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) and Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden).

Research Prof. Swindlehurst's research interests lie in the application of detection and estimation theory to problems in signal processing and wireless communications. Past projects include direction-of-arrival estimation, sensor array calibration, beamforming, time-delay estimation, system identification, blind channel estimation and equalization, space-time adaptive processing for radar, clutter modeling and mitigation, and interference/jammer cancellation. Currently, he and his students are working on problems in MIMO wireless communications, including space-time characterization of indoor and outdoor RF propagation, channel estimation and performance analysis for time-varying MIMO links, downlink beamforming in multiuser MIMO systems, and space-time processing for ad hoc networks. He also has a new NSF-funded research effort on "smart" sensing using miniature Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). He has co-authored over 135 papers in the technical areas described above, and has been PI on research grants from government and industry totaling over $4.3M.

Professional Prof. Swindlehurst is active in the IEEE Signal Processing Society, having served as Society Secretary from 2002-2004, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1994-1997, Technical Program Chair for the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in 2001 and 2008, and as a member of various technical committees within the society. He is also currently an Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

Awards Prof. Swindlehurst is a Fellow of the IEEE (2004) and a recipient of the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award at BYU (2004). He received the 2000 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award with Petre Stoica for "Maximum Likelihood Methods in Radar Array Processing" (IEEE Proceedings, Feb. 1998), and was co-author of "Spatial Signature Estimation for Uniform Linear Arrays with Unknown Receiver Gains and Phases," (IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, August, 1999) which received the 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Young Author Best Paper Award (primary author: David Astely, co-author Bjorn Ottersten).