Research Interests:
Communication theory, spread-spectrum techniques, ultra-wideband radio, pseudo-noise generation, applications to communication and radar systems.
Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1964, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Scholtz is a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Cincinnati, where, as a Sheffield Scholar, he received the Degree in Electrical Engineer in1958. He was a Hughes Masters and Doctoral Fellow while obtaining the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from USC in 1960 and Stanford University in 1964 respectively.
In 1963, Dr. Scholtz joined the faculty of the University of Southern California, where he is now the Fred H. Cole Professor of Engineering. He has served as a founding director of USC's Communication Sciences Institute, Chairman of the EE-Systems Department at USC. He is the founder and current director of the UltRa Lab. His research interests include communication theory, synchronization, signal design, coding, adaptive processing, pseudonoise generation, and ultrawideband radio, and their application to communications and radar systems. He has co-authored the two books, Spread Spectrum Communications, and Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding.
Dr. Scholtz was elected to the grade of Fellow in the IEEE, “for contributions to the theory and design of synchronizable codes for communications and radar systems.” His research has garnered many awards, including the Leonard G. Abraham Award and the Fred Ellersick Award from the IEEE Communications Society, the Senior Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Sergei Schelkunoff Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, and the Donald Fink Award from the IEEE. He is a recipient of the Military Communication Conference Award for Technical Achievement.
In of the 2006, Dr. Scholtz was named co-recipient Eric E. Sumner Award from the IEEE "for pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications
science and technology."
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