Michael Honig awarded Humboldt Research Award

December 14, 2006

Michael Honig, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award was given in recognition of Honig’s past accomplishments in research and teaching.

Honig plans to conduct research at the Technical University of Munich from May to July 2007, returning for a similar visit in 2008. He will work with colleagues there and at the Fraunhofer Institute at the Technical University of Berlin on projects related to signal processing and resource sharing methods for wireless communications and networks.

Honig joined the Northwestern faculty in 1994. He is known for his work on adaptive filtering, and interference mitigation and avoidance in wireless systems. He has held visiting scholar positions at the Naval Research Laboratory (San Diego), the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Sydney, and Princeton University. He has served as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE Transactions on Communications and Foundations and Trends in Information Theory, and as a member of the Board of Governors for the IEEE Information Theory Society. He is the co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, and is a Fellow of IEEE.