Moshe Kam
Moshe Kam | |
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משה קם | |
Kam in 2008 | |
| Born | October 3, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University (BS) Drexel University (MS, PhD) |
| Awards | Presidential Young Investigator Award, US National Science Foundation, 1990 C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, Eta Kappa Nu, 1991 IEEE Third Millennium Award, 2000 Fellow of the IEEE, 2001 Honorary Professor, South China University of Technology, 2006, IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, 2016 |
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| Institutions | New Jersey Institute of Technology Drexel University |
| Thesis | Entropy And The Basic Percepts of System Theory (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Kalata |
Moshe Kam (Hebrew: משה קם; born October 3, 1955) is an Israeli-American electrical engineer. He is an engineering educator serving as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Until August 2014 he served as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and department head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University. In 2011, he served concurrently as the 49th president and CEO of IEEE. Earlier he was IEEE's vice president for educational activities (2005–2007) and IEEE's representative director to the accreditation body ABET. Kam is known for his studies of decision fusion and distributed detection, which focus on computationally feasible fusion rules for multi-sensor systems.