Anthony J. Weiss (S'84-M'864M'86) received the B.Sc. degree from the Technion, Haifa, Israel, in 1973, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in 1982 and 1985, all in electrical engineering.From 1973 to 1983 he was involved in research and development of numerous projects in the fields of communications, tracking systems, command and control, and emitter localization. In 1985 he became a faculty member of the Department of Electronic Systems, Tel-Aviv University. In 1987-87, he was a visiitng scientist with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA. In 1987-88 he was with Saxpy Computer Corp., Sunnyvale, CA. Since 1988 he has spent his summers and sabbatical leaves with Signal Processing Technology, Ltd., Palo Alto, CA. His research activities are detection and estimation theory, signal processing, array processing, with applications to radar, sonar, and passive surveillance systems.
Dr. Weiss held a Rothschild Foundation Fellowship from 1986 to 1987 and a Yigaal Alan Fellowship from 1985 to 1988. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society's 1983 Senior Award for a paper excerpted from his master's thesis.