Robert A. Scholtz, Professor

Electrical Engineer, University of Cincinnati, 1958
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1960
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1964.
Research Interests: spread-spectrum communications, ultrawideband and impulse radio, synchronization techniques, adaptive arrays and filters, pseudo-noise generators, communication networks.

Dr. Scholtz is a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Cincinnati where he received the Electrical Engineer degree as a Sheffield Scholar. He was a Hughes Master and Doctoral Fellow while obtaining his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at USC and Stanford University, respectively. In 1963, Dr. Scholtz joined the faculty USC, where he is now Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 1984 through 1989, he served as Director of USC's Communication Sciences Institute. In 1996 he founded the Ultrawideband Radio Laboratory as part of the Integrated Media Systems Center at USC. He served as Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department (Systems) from 1994 to 2000.

In 1980, 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." In 1983 he received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award for the historical article, "The Origins of Spread Spectrum Communications;" this same paper received the 1984 Donald G. Fink Prize award given by the IEEE. His paper "Acquisition of Spread Spectrum Signals by an Adaptive Array" with D. M. Dlugos received the 1992 Senior Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. His paper "Strategies for minimizing the intercept time in a mobile communication network with directive/adaptive antennas," with J.-H. Oh received the Ellersick Award for the best unclassified paper at Milcom'97. His paper "ATM Based Ultrawide Bandwidth (UWB) Multiple-Access Radio Network for Multimedia PCS" with students M.Z. Win, J. H. Ju, X. Qiu, and colleague V. O. K. Li received the best student paper award from the NetWorld+Interop'97 program committee. In 2001 Dr. Scholtz received the Military Communications Conference Award for Technical Advancement for his contributions to the field.

Full-time positions: Hughes Aircraft Company, 1958-1963; University of Southern California, 1963-.

Books:

1. Spread Spectrum Communications (with M. K. Simon et al.), Computer Science Press, 1984.
2. Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook (with M. K. Simon et al.), McGraw Hill, 1994.
   
3. Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding (with S. W. Golomb and R. Peile), Plenum Press, 1994.
   

Selected Publications:

1. "The evolution of spread-spectrum multiple-access communications," Proceedings of IEEE Third International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, (opening plenary address), Oulu, Finland, July 4-6, 1994; reprinted as the first chapter of Code Division Multiple Access Communications, S. G. Glisic and P. A. Leppanen, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
2. "Counting Collision-Free Transmissions in Common-Code SSMA Communications," with D.I. Kim and I. Kim, IEEE Transactions on Communications, February 1995.
3. "Optical Phase-Locked Loop (OPLL) for an Amplitude Modulated Communications Link Using Solid-State Lasers," with M. Z. Win and C. C. Chen, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, April 1995.
4. "Impulse Radio," with M. Z. Win, Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 1997. Printed in Wireless Communications: TDMA versus CDMA, S. G. Glisic and P. A. Leppanen, eds.,Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
5. "Ultra-wide Bandwidth Time-Hopping Spread-Spectrum Impulse Radio for Wireless Multiple Access Communications," with M. Z. Win, IEEE Transactions on Communications, April 2000.

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