Neil J. Bershad (S'60-M'62-SM'81) was born in Brooklyn, NY, on October 20, 1937. He received the B.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1958, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1960, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1962.In 1966 he joined the Faculty of the School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests have involved stochastic systems modeling and analysis. His present interests are in the areas of detection and estimation using multiple observations, and the statistical behavior of nonlinear systems driven by stochastic inputs. In particular, he has published a number of papers containing analysis of various configurations of the LMS adaptive filter. He is currently a Consultant in Array Processing to the Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, CA.
Dr. Bershad has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of phase-locked loops and synchronization.