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Luo

Professor Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cites

ADC Chair in Digital Technology


Background(CV)

Education

o Ph.D., ORC/EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1985 – 1989

o B.Sc., Applied Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, China, 1980 – 1984

Selected by a joint AMS-SIAM committee for graduate study in the U.S. ( S.S. Chern program), 1984

Intensive training in English/Mathematics, Nankai Institute of Mathematics, China, 1984 – 1985

Faculty experiences

o Faculty member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2003 – present

o Faculty member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, 1989 – 2003

Professional activities

o Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012-2014

o Semi-plenary speaker, 2011 IEEE CDC conference.

o Visiting Professor, EECS Department, MIT, Spring 2011.

o SIAM Fellow, 2011

o Fellow of IEEE, Member of SIAM and MOS

o Chair (2011-2012)/Vice chair (2009-2010) of SPCOM-TC

o Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society SPTM

o Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

o Associate Editor for Management Science

o Associate Editor for Mathematics of Operations Research

Awards

o Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2011 (co-authored with Sidiropoulos,N.D. and Davidson, T.N.)

o Best Paper Award from IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2011 (co-authored with Y.-F. Liu and Y.-H. Dai)

o Best Paper Award from EURASIP, 2011 (co-authored with Pang, J.-S.)

o Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009 (co-authored with Zhang, S.)

o Best Student Paper Award from ICASSP, 2004 (with Ph.D student M. Kisialiou)

o Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004 (co-authored with Vorobyov and Gershman)

o Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Optimization Techniques and Applications, 2001

Contact Information

Mailing Address

Room 6-161, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

200 Union ST SE, Minneapolis,MN,55455

TEL: (612)-625-0242

Fax: (612)-625-4583

Email: luozq at ece dot umn dot edu

Office Address

Room 483, Digital Technology Center

117 Pleasant ST SE, Minneapolis,MN,55455