Prof. Raymond L. Pickholtz

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, George Washington University

Email : pickholt@gwu.edu

  Raymond L. Pickholtz, professor in and former chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The George Washington University received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1966.  He was a researcher at RCA Laboratories and at ITT Laboratories.  He was on the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and of Brooklyn College.  He was a visiting professor at the Universite' du Quebec and the University of California.  He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  He was an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and guest editor for special issues on Computer Communications, Military Communications Spread Spectrum Systems and Social Impacts of Technology.  He is editor of the Telecommunication Series for Computer Science Press.  He has published scores of papers and holds six United States patents.

Dr. Pickholtz was elected a member of the Cosmos Club and a fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1986.  In 1984, Dr. Pickholtz received the IEEE centennial medal.  In 1987, he was elected as Vice President, and in 1990 and 1991 as President of the IEEE Communications Society.  He received the Donald W. McLellan Award in 1994.  He was a visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, 1997. He was awarded the IEEE  Third Millenium Medal in 2000.