John G. Proakis

BSEE, University of Cincinnati, 1959
MSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961
Ph.D. in Engineering, Harvard University, 1967

Dr. Proakis is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at San Diego and a Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University. He was a faculty member at Northeastern University from 1969 through 1998 and held the following academic positions: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1969-1976; Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1976-1998; Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of the Graduate School of Engineering, 1982-1984; Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1984-1997. His professional experience and interests are in the general areas of digital communications and digital signal processing and more specifically, in adaptive filtering, adaptive communication systems and adaptive equalization techniques, communication through fading multipath channels, radar detection, signal parameter estimation, communication systems modeling and simulation, optimization techniques, and statistical analysis. He is active in research in the areas of digital communications and digital signal processing and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in communications, circuit analysis, control systems, probability, stochastic processes, discrete systems, and digital signal processing. He is the author of the book Digital Communications (New York: McGraw- Hill, 1983, first edition; 1989, second edition and 1995, third edition, and co-author of the books, Introduction to Digital Signal Processing (New York: Macmillan, 1988, first edition; 1992, second edition, 1996, third edition); Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1991); Advanced Digital Signal Processing (New York: Macmillan, 1992); Digital Processing of Speech Signals (New York: Macmillan, 1992); Communication Systems Engineering, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994); Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB V.4 (Boston: PWS Publishing Co., 1997); Contemporary Communication Systems Using MATLAB (Boston: PWS Publishing Co., 1998).

"Phase-Coherent Digital Communications for Underwater Acoustic Channels," (with M. Stojanovic and J.A. Catipovic), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 19, 100-111, January 1994

"Smoothed Eigenspace-based Parameter Estimation," Automatica, vol. 30, pp.27-38, January 1994

"Optimal Tracking of Time-Varying Channels: A Frequency Domain Approach for Known and New Algorithms," (with J. Lin, F. Ling, and H. Lev-Ari), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 13, pp. 141- 154, January 1995

"Analysis of the Impact of Channel Estimation Errors on the Performance of Decision-Feedback Equalizer in Fading Multipath Channels," (with M. Stojanovic and J.A. Catapovic), IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 43, pp. 877- 886, April 1995

"Reduced-Complexity Spatial and Temporal Processing of Underwater Acoustic Communication Signals," (with M. Stojanovic and J.A. Catapovic), Journal of the Acoustical Society, vol. 98, pp. 961-972, August 1995

"Channel Equalization" in the Mobile Communications Handbook, J.D. Gibson, Ed., CRC Press, 1995

"Coded Modulation Techniques for Cellular Mobile Systems," (with M. Salehi) in Worldwide Wireless Communications, F.J. Barnes et al., Editor, pp. 215-238, International Engineering Consortium Publishers

"Performance of a High Rate Adaptive Equalizer in a Shallow Water Acoustic Channel," (with M. Stojanovic and J.Catipovic), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 100, pp. 2213-2219, October 1996

"A Comparison of Decision Feedback Equalization and Data Directed Estimation Techniques for the GSM System," (with B. Bjerke, M.K. Lee and Z. Zvonar), Proc. International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, San Diego, CA, October 13-15, 1997.

"Reduced-Complexity Sequence Detection Approaches for PR-shaped Coded Linear Modulations," (with A. Rizos), Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, pp. 342-346, Phoenix, AZ, November 3-8, 1997.

"Analysis of the Impact of Channel Estimation Errors on the Performance of a MC-CDMA System in a Rayleigh Fading Channel," (with D.N. Kalofonos and M. Stajanovic), Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, Communication Theory Miniconference, pp. 213-217, Phoenix, AZ, November 3-8, 1997.

"Equalization Techniques for High-Density Magnetic Recording", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 15, July 1998, pp. 73-82.

"Fading Channels: Information-Theoretic and Communications Aspects," (with E. Biglieri and S. Shamai), IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 44, Oct. 1998, pp. 2619-2692.

"Spread Spectrum for Underwater Acoustic Communications," (with M. Stojanovic and J. Rice), Proc. IEEE Oceans ?8, Nice, France, September 8-11, 1998.

"On the Performance of Adaptive MMSE Detectors for a MC-CDMA System in Fast Fading Rayleigh Channels," (with D.N. Kalofonos and M. Stojanovic), Proc. 9th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio, Boston, MA, September 1998.

"A Comparison of GSM Receivers for Fading Multipath Channels with Adjacent- and Co-Channel Interference," (with B.A. Bjerke M.K. Lee and Z. Zvonar, Proc. 9th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Boston, MA, September 8-11, 1998.

"Incremental Quantization ?A New Multiuser Detection Algorithm for CDMA Systems," (with R. Mahadevappa), Proc. CISS?9, Baltimore, MD, March 1999.

"Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Based Modem for Underwater Acoustic Communications and Channel Measurement," (with E. Sozer and M. Stojanovic), Proc. OCEANS?9, Seattle, WA, September 1999.

"Multiple Antenna Diversity Techniques for Transmission over Fading Channels," (with B. Bjerke), Proc. WCNC?9, New Orleans, LA, September 1999.

"Performance Comparisons of Cancatenated Codes with Iterative Decoding for DS-CDMA Systems with Application to IS-95-based Systems," (with D.N. Kalofonos and E. Kurtas), Proc. WCNC?9, New Orleans, LA, September 1999.

"Performance of Multi-Code CDMA Systems with Concatenated Coding and Iterative Decoding in Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels," (with D.N. Kalofonos and E. Kurtas), Proc. VTC?9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 1999.