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NPS Professor Elevated to IEEE Fellow
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NPS Professor Elevated to IEEE Fellow

By Javier Chagoya

NPS Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phillip Pace has been elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2017. Annually, no more than one tenth of one percent of IEEE voting members can be elevated to this prestigious distinction. With a membership of more than 400,000, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. A member of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Pace is one of only 300 selected throughout the various IEEE umbrella societies.

The IEEE Fellow distinction is reserved for select society members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of their related fields of interest are deemed fitting for the prestigious grade elevation. Pace's innovations and leadership in radar signal processing, receiver design, and direction finding architectures are regarded as monumental achievements.

"Of all my accomplishments, probably the most significant was the invention of the symmetrical number systems. The symmetrical number system has a direct "one-to-one" relationship with the discrete Fourier transform," said Pace.

Pace's seminal textbook, "Detecting and Classifying Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) Radar," is a comprehensive study in radar intercept receivers. He was the first to assemble a set of modern LPI radar design tools along with the tools to design and evaluate novel digital receiver processing and strategies to beat adversarial LPI radars. Today, it remains the only reference resource available to study the trade-offs of these LPI and counter-LPI radar design techniques, and has been translated into several languages.

"This relationship with the discrete Fourier transform has opened the door to many applications including electronic warfare (EW) intercept receiver architectures, direction finding antenna systems, photonic signal processors and LPI radar modulations to name a few. The reason that there are so many applications is due to the fact that these number systems are symmetrical … It's the most common type of waveform in engineering and science," added Pace.

Pace's enthusiasm for signal processing design research has been a continuous journey in the radar community and industry for more than 25 years, he says. But besides publishing three textbooks, submission of his many peer-reviewed conference papers, and a long list of patents, Pace says he is most proud of the hundreds of students he has mentored and advised since beginning his teaching career at NPS in 1992.

"My work with students is what it's all about. We're nothing without the student. It's exciting to watch as they discover the nature of building effective detection systems. I wouldn't be here and have achieved my successes without their success," he said.

Pace will travel to Seattle, Wash., for the 2017 IEEE Conference in May, to be formally recognized by society members.

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