NAME  POSITION TITLE 
ALFRED  O. HERO, III Professor of EECS and, by courtesy, of Biomedical Engineering and Statistics at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122

 
EDUCATION: INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
DEGREE
YEAR(s)
FIELD OF STUDY
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
B.S.E.E.
1980
 Electrical Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
M.S.
1982
 Electrical Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Ph.D.
1984
 Electrical Engineering

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sept. 1984 - Aug. 1990, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Aug. 1987, 1988, 1989, Visiting Scientist, M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA.
Sept. 1990-1996, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
July 1991 - Jan. 1992, Research Scientist, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA).
July - Aug. 1993, William Clay Ford Fellow, Scientific Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Co.
Sept. 1996-present, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering,  and Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Jan. - April 1999, Visiting Researcher, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Lyon, France
April - May 1999, Visiting Researcher, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
June - Aug. 1999, Visiting Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France
June-July 2001, Visiting Professor, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis,  France

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My research interests are divided into the following areas: detection and estimation theory, bioinformatics, communications and networking, tomography and inverse problems, statistical signal and image processing.
HONORS:
Fellow of IEEE; 1995 Research Excellence Award,  Dept. EECS, University of Michigan; 2003 Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan; 1998 Meritorious Service Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society; 1998 Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society; IEEE Third Millenium Medal 2000; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2000-2002 Distinguished Lecturer Award.  
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES: Chair for Publicity, 1986 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT); General Chair, 1995 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP); 1997-1999 , Treasurer, Conference Board of IEEE Signal Processing Society; 1996-1998 Chair, Statistical Signal Processing and Arrays Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Proccessing Society;1996-1998 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; co-Chair ,   1999 IEEE Workshop on Higher Order Statistics; co-Chair, 1999 IEEE Workshop on Information Theory;  1999-2002 Chair,  US National Commission C, International Union of Radio Sciences (URSI), Vice President (Finance) (2000-2002) and President-Elect (2004-2005), IEEE Signal Processing Society. Chair 2002 NSF Workshop on Challenges in Pattern Recognition; Co-chair 2002 NSF/DARPA Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS).   2001-2005, Member Army Research Lab (ARL) Sensors and Electronic Devices (SED) Panel, National Research Council (NRC). 2004-2006, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2005-2006). President IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006-2007). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Last 5 years)
  • K. Carter, R. Raich, W. G. Finn and A.O.Hero, "Information preserving component analysis: data projections for flow cytometry analysis," submitted IEEE Journ. of Selected Topics in SIgnal processing, April. 2008.
  • W.G. Finn, K. Carter, R. Raich, L. Stoolman and A.O. Hero, "Analysis of Clinical Flow Cytometric Immunophenotyping Data by Clustering on Statistical Manifolds: Treating Flow Cytometry Data as High-Dimensional Objects," Cytometry: Part B - Clinical Cytometry, to appear Oct 2008.
  • A. Rao, A.O. Hero III, D.J. States, and J.D.Engel, "Using Directed Information to Build Biologically Relevant Influence Networks," in Journal on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, June 2008.
  • D. Zhu and A.O. Hero, "Bayesian Hierarchicall Model for Large-Scale Covariance Matrix Estimation," Journal of COmputational Iology (JCB), Vol. 14, No. 10: 1311-1326, Dec. 2007.
  • A. Rao, A.O. Hero III, D.J. States and J.D. Engel, "Motif Discovery in Tissue-Specific Regulatory Sequences Using Directed Information," in EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Vol. 2007, article ID 13853.
  • A. Rao, A.O. Hero III, D.J. States and J.D. Engel, "Inferring Time-varying Network Topologies from Gene Expression Data," in EURASIP Journal ON bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Vol. 2007, article ID 51947.
  • M. Akimoto, H. Cheng, D. Zhu, J. A. Brzezinski, R. Khanna, E. Filippova, E. C.T. Oh, Y. Jing, J-L Linares, S. Zareparsi, A.J. meas, A.O. Hero, T. Glaser, and A. Swaroop, "Targeting of green fluorescent protein to newborn rods by Nri promoter and temporal expressing profiling of flow-sorted photoreceptors,: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Vol 103, No. 10, pp. 3890-3895, March 7 2006.
  • D. Zhu, M. Rabbat, A. O. Hero, R. Nowak, M. Figuieredo, "de Novo signaling pathway reconstruction from multiple data sources," in New research on signal transduction, Ed. F. Columbus , Nova Publishing, 2006.
  • D. Zhu, A.O. Hero, H. Cheng, R. Khanna and A. Swaroop, "Network constrained clustering for gene microarray data," Bioinformatics, vol. 21, pp. 4014 - 4020, Nov. 2005.
  • D. Zhu, A.O. Hero, Z.S. Qin, A. Swaroop, "High throughput screening of co-expressed gene pairs with controlled False Discovery Rate (FDR) and Minimum Acceptable Strength (MAS), Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 12, no. 7, 1027-1043, Sept. 2005.
  • "Image matching using alpha-entropy measures and entropic graphs," H. Neemuchwala, A. O. Hero, and P.L. Carson, European Journal of Signal Processing (Special Issue on Content-based Visual Information Retrieval), vol 85, pp. 277-296, 2005.
  • "Convergence of differential entropies," M. Godavarti and A. O. Hero, IEEE Trans. on Info Theory, Vol 50, No. 1, Jan. 2004.

  • "Secure Space-Time Communications," A. O. Hero, IEEE Trans. on Info Theory, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 1-16, Dec. 2003.
  • "Multicriteria Gene Screening for Analysis of Differential Expression with DNA Microarrays," A. Hero, G. Fleury, A. Mears and A. Swaroop, Special Issue on Genomics, EURASIP Journ. of Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, No. 1, pp. 43-52, Jan. 2004.
  • "Pareto-optimal methods for gene analysis," A. Hero and G. Fleury, to appear in Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing, Journ. of VLSI Signal Processing, 2004.
  • "A fast spectral method for active 3D shape reconstruction," J. Li and A. O. Hero, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Vol. 20, pp. 73-87, 2004..
  • "Relative location estimation in sensor networks," N. Patwari, A. O. Hero, M. Perkins, N. S. Correal and R. J. O'Dea , IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networking , vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 2137-2148, Aug. 2003.
  • "Unicast-based inference of network link delay distributions using mixed finite mixture models," M.F. Shih and A. O. Hero, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networking , vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 2219-2228, Aug. 2003.
  • "High Rate Vector Quantization for Detection," R. Gupta and A.O. Hero, IEEE Trans. on Info Theory , vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1951-1969, Aug. 2003.
  • "Applications of entropic spanning graphs," A. O. Hero, B. Ma, O. Michel an\ d J. Gorman, in IEEE Signal Proc. Magazine (Special Issue on Mathematics in Imaging), Vol 19, No. 5, pp 85-95, Sept. 2002
  • "Environmental Issues for MIMO capacity," Dan Bliss, K. Forsythe, A. Hero and A. F. Yugulalp, IEEE Trans on Signal Processing, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 2128-2142, Sept. 2002.
  • "Internet Tomography," Mark Coates, Alfred Hero, Robert Nowak, Bin Yu, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 47-65, May 2002.
  • "Comparison of GLR and invariance detectors under structured clutter covariance," H.S. Kim and A. O. Hero,  IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. IP-10, No. 10, pp. 1509-1520, Oct. 2001.
  • ``MST, entropies et divergences : applications,'' O. Michel, A. O. Hero and P. Flandrin, (English title: ``MST: entropies and divergences'," Traitement du Signal, Dec. 2000.
  • ``Cut-off rate and signal design for the quasi-static Rayleigh fading space-time channel,'' A. O. Hero and T. L. Marzetta,  IEEE Trans. on Inform. Theory, Vol IT-47, No 6,  pp. 2400-2416, July 2001
  • ``Simultaneous detection of lane and pavement boundaries using model-based multisensor fusion,'' B. Ma, S. Lakshmanan, and A. O. Hero, IEEE Transactions on ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) special issue on Vision Applications and Technology for Intelligent Vehicles - Part II: Vehicles, Vol ITS-1, No. 3, pp. 135-147, Sept.  2000.
  • ``Power-performance tradeoffs and optimal bit allocation in reduced resolution adaptive filtering,'' R. Gupta and A. O. Hero, IEEE Trans. on Sig. Proc., Vol. SP-48, No.  10, pp. 2772-2784,  Sept. 2000.
  • ``Kullback proximal algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation,'' S. Chretien and A. O. Hero, IEEE Trans. on Inform. Theory, Vol IT-46, No. 5,  pp. 1800-1810, Aug.  2000.
  • "Word spotting in bitmapped fax documents,'' W.J.  Williams, E.  Zalubas and A.O.  Hero, Information Retrieval,  vol 2, pp. 207-226, May 2000.
  • ``3D reconstruction for a Compton SPECT camera model'' A. C. Sauve, A. O. Hero, W. L. Rogers, S. Wilderman and N. H. Clinthorne, IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 2075-2084, Nov. 1999.
  • "Tree structured non-linear signal modeling and prediction," O. Michel, A. O . Hero and A.-E. Badel, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. SP-47, No.  11, pp.  3027-3041, Nov. 1999.
  • ``Asymptotic theory of greedy approximations to minimal {K}-point random graphs,'' A. O. Hero and O. Michel,  IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. IT-45, pp. 1921-1939, Sept. 1999.
  • "Sur un probleme d'estimation pour des processus de Poisson composes et filtres," (In French - English title, ``On a problem of estimation for filtered composed Poisson processes") A. O. Hero, Traitement du Signal, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 493-502, May 1999.
  • ``Minimax emission computed tomography using high-resolution anatomical side information and B-spline models,'' A. O. Hero, R. Piramuthu, J. A. Fessler and S. R.  Titus, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory (Special issue on Multiscale Statistical Signal Analysis and its Applications), Vol 45, No. 3, pp. 920-938, April 1999.
  • "A maximum likelihood digital receiver using the EM algorithm and the discrete wavelet transform", I. Sharfer and A. O. Hero, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 813-825, Mar. 1999.
  • ``Highlights of Statistical Signal and Array Processing,'' A.O. Hero (Ed.) with the IEEE SSAP Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,  Vol 15, No. 5, pp. 21-66, Sept. 1998.
  • ``Comparaison de syst\emes et arbres de regression,'' (In French - English title, ``Comparison of systems and regression trees'') A.-E. Badel, O. Michel, and A.O. Hero, Traitement du Signal, July 1998.
  • "Data-recursive algorithms for blind channel identification in oversampled communication systems", D. Goeckel, A. O. Hero, and W. E. Stark, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 46, No. 8, pp. 2217-2220, Aug. 1998.
  • "Scale and translation invariant methods for enhanced time-frequency pattern recognition," W.J. Williams, E.  Zalubas, R. M. Nickel, and A.O. Hero, Journ.  Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, vol 9, pp. 465-473, Nov. 1998.
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