Research Professor of Mathematics and Statistics | Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Colorado State University
Biography:
Louis Scharf is Research Professor of Mathematics and Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
His research interests are in statistical signal processing and machine learning, as it applies to adaptive array processing for radar, sonar, and communication; modal analysis for electric power monitoring; and image processing for classification.
He has made original contributions to matched and adaptive subspace detection, invariance theories for signal processing, and reduced-rank signal processing. He has co-authored the books, L.L. Scharf, “Statistical Signal Processing: Detection, Estimation, and Time Series Analysis,” Addison-Wesley, 1991, and P.J. Schreier and L.L. Scharf, “Statistical Signal Processing of Complex-Valued Data: The Theory of Improper and Noncircular Signals,” Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Professor Scharf has received several awards for his professional service and his contributions to statistical signal processing, including the Technical Achievement and Society Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS); the Donald W. Tufts Award for Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing, the Diamond Award from the University of Washington, and the 2016 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal for Signal Processing. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE
Louis Scharf is Research Professor of Mathematics and Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
His research interests are in statistical signal processing and machine learning, as it applies to adaptive array processing for radar, sonar, and communication; modal analysis for electric power monitoring; and image processing for classification.
He has made original contributions to matched and adaptive subspace detection, invariance theories for signal processing, and reduced-rank signal processing. He has co-authored the books, L.L. Scharf, “Statistical Signal Processing: Detection, Estimation, and Time Series Analysis,” Addison-Wesley, 1991, and P.J. Schreier and L.L. Scharf, “Statistical Signal Processing of Complex-Valued Data: The Theory of Improper and Noncircular Signals,” Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Professor Scharf has received several awards for his professional service and his contributions to statistical signal processing, including the Technical Achievement and Society Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS); the Donald W. Tufts Award for Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing, the Diamond Award from the University of Washington, and the 2016 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal for Signal Processing. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE
Academic Honors and Awards:
Professional Career
2011–Present | Research Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
2001–2011 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
1985–2001 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1982–1985 | Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1971–1982 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1969–1971 | Principal Development Engineer, Honeywell, Inc., Marine Systems Center, Seattle, WA
1967–1969 | NDEA Title IV Fellow.
1965–1967 | Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
1964–1965 | Engineer, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
Visiting Positions and International Cooperation2011, 2012, 2014 | Research Appointments University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
2002 | Visiting Professor University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
1998-1999 | Visiting Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; sabbatical
1992 | Visiting Professor EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France; sabbatical
1985 | Invited Lecturer Les Houches Summer School on Signal Processing, Chamonix, France
1981 | Visiting Professor Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris 2
1981 | Visiting Professor University of LaPlata, LaPlata, Argentina
1977–1978 | Maitre de Conference Universite de Paris-Sud and CNRS Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, Gif-surYvette, France; sabbatical
1974–1975 | Visiting Associate Professor Duke University
Educational Innovation
Society Memberships, Professional Activities and Committees:
Conference Organization:
Lectureships:
Editing and Reviewing:
- 2016 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
- 2016 UW College of Engineering Diamond Award for Distinguished Achievement in Academia
- 2015 ScharfFest, Asilomar Conf on Signals, Systems, and Computers
- 2013 Donald W. Tufts Underwater Acoustics Signal Processing Award
- 2007 Life Fellow of IEEE (Fellow 1986)
- 2004 Society Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 2000 An IEEE Millennium Medal
- 1998 College Research Award, University of Colorado
- 1996 IEEE Signal Processing Society Pioneer Award
- 1994 Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 1993-1994 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 1988 Faculty Excellence Award, American Electronics Association
- 1984 Administrative Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Univ of Rhode Island
- 1971–1972 Electrical Engineering Teaching Award, Colorado State University
- 1967–1969 NDEA Title IV Fellow
Professional Career
2011–Present | Research Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
2001–2011 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
1985–2001 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1982–1985 | Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1971–1982 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1969–1971 | Principal Development Engineer, Honeywell, Inc., Marine Systems Center, Seattle, WA
1967–1969 | NDEA Title IV Fellow.
1965–1967 | Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
1964–1965 | Engineer, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
Visiting Positions and International Cooperation2011, 2012, 2014 | Research Appointments University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
2002 | Visiting Professor University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
1998-1999 | Visiting Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; sabbatical
1992 | Visiting Professor EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France; sabbatical
1985 | Invited Lecturer Les Houches Summer School on Signal Processing, Chamonix, France
1981 | Visiting Professor Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris 2
1981 | Visiting Professor University of LaPlata, LaPlata, Argentina
1977–1978 | Maitre de Conference Universite de Paris-Sud and CNRS Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, Gif-surYvette, France; sabbatical
1974–1975 | Visiting Associate Professor Duke University
Educational Innovation
- Developed senior lab course in dsp for communications
- Developed freshman seminar course in electrical and computer engineering
- Developed freshman course in problem solving with MATLAB; wrote textbook
- Supervised development of software for undergraduate course in signals and systems
- Developed graduate courses in detection, estimation, and time series analysis; wrote textbook
- Developed a Combined 5 Year BS/MS Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Initiated Industrial Associates Program in College of Engineering
- Developed MATLAB Experiments for Applied Probability
- Developed Connections Lectures for Undergraduate Students
- Initiated and Developed Input/Output Diagrams for Undergraduate Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Society Memberships, Professional Activities and Committees:
- Chair, IEEE Fellow Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1997-2001
- Member, IEEE Professional Groups on Information Theory, Communications, and Signal Processing
- Member, Administrative Committee, IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (1984–1986)
- Member, National Research Council Committee on Applied Mathematics Research Alternatives for the Navy (1980–1986)
- Member, National Research Council Committee on Sensors and Electron Devices, 2001
- Member of NSF review panels for Signal Processing Research, 1984, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2013
- Member, Review Committee of Army Research Office, 2009
- Past Member, Technical Committee for Theory and Methods, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- Past Member, Technical Committee for Sensor Arrays and Multidimensional Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- Past Member, Editorial Board, European Association for Signal Processing
- Past Member, Eta Kappa Nu
Conference Organization:
- Technical Program Chair, 1980 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
- Processing, Denver, CO (1980).
- Steering Committee, ICASSP ‘95 and ICASSP ’01.
- Technical Program Committee, Asilomar ‘96.
- Technical Program Committee, MIT Lincoln Labs ASAP, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004.
- Tutorials Chair, ICASSP 2001.
- Technical Program Chair, Asilomar 2002.
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Sensors and Multichannel, 2002.
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2003.
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communication (SPAWC), New York, 2005.
- Member of Organizing Committee, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Ann Arbor, MI, Aug 5-8, 2012.
Lectureships:
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society (1993,1994)
- Plenary Lectures at Workshops on Statistical Signal and Array Processing (1989, 1992, 1995, 1998)
- Plenary Lecture at SAM 2000 Workshop on Sensor Arrays and Multichannnel Signal Processing
- Plenary Lecture at Symposium 2000 on Communication, Computing, and Signal Processing, Lake Louise, May 2000
- Invited Lectures at US-Australian Conference on Defence Applications of Signal Processing, 1997, 2002, 2011
- Plenary Tutorial, “Statistical Signal Processing: A Geometric View,” Nordic Signal Processing Conference, Tromso, Norway, Oct 2002
- Plenary Lecture at Lake Louise Workshop on New Directions for Signal Processing in the
- Twenty-First Century, Oct 5-10, 2003
- Keynote Lecture, SPIE Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing Conference, 14-19 February, 2004
- Keynote Lecture at MIT Lincoln Labs Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing, Mar 16-18, 2004
- Keynote Lecture at IMA Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Cirencester, UK, Dec 14-16, 2004.
- Plenary Lecture at IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multisensor Array Processing (CAMSAP), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Dec ‘12-15, 2007
- Plenary Lecture at Open University of Israel, Hagit Messer-Yaron Celebration, May 2013
- Plenary Lecture, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Gold Coast, Australia, June 30, 2014
- Plenary Lecture, Fortieth Anniversary of Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, Gif-surYvette, June 17, 2014
- Keynote Lecture, IEEE ICASSP Communications and Array Processing Workshop, Xi’an, China, March 28, 2015
Editing and Reviewing:
- Past Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1979–1981)
- Past Member, Editorial Board for Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (1992)
- Member, Editorial Board for (European) Signal Processing
- Reviewer, NSF Career Awards, 1999
- Reviewer, IEEE Trans on Information Theory, IEEE Trans on Signal Processing, IEEE
- Trans Communication, European Signal Processing
- Reviewer, Telecommunications Research Center at Arizona State University (July 1993)
- NSF Reviewer for PYI and NYI panels, 1989, 1993
- Reviewer for NSF ITR Proposals, 2002, 2004
- Reviewer for NSF CISE Proposals in Signal Processing and Communications Programs (now Theoretical Foundations)