Engineering Dean H. Vincent Poor *77 has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Poor is a leading researcher in the areas of statistical signal processing, stochastic analysis and information theory — particularly as they apply to wireless networks. As EQN has pointed out before, two giants in Poor’s field of research also have an Edinburgh connection. The physicist James Clerk Maxwell and the inventor Alexander Graham Bell were both educated at Edinburgh.
In 2011 Poor received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh (see photo above).
David MacMillan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, also was elected a fellow of the RSE this year.
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