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Prof. Sam Reisenfeld graduated Summa Cum Laude in Information Engineering, specializing in Communication Systems, from the University of Illinois in 1969. He received the Zenith Radio Corporation Scholarship and the Bell Honor Award. He was a James Scholar and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi. A/Prof Reisenfeld received the Masters and PhD Degrees in Communication Systems Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1972 and 1979, respectively. He was a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at UCLA.
From June, 1969 until September, 1988, he was a Space Communications Systems Engineer at the Hughes Aircraft Company at El Segundo , California . He worked on the analysis, design, and optimization of numerous complex, space-borne, digital communication systems.
He was the project director for the design and implementation of a radiation hardened monolithic Viterbi Algorithm convolutional decoder. He was responsible for the design of numerous NASA, commercial, and defense space communication systems and satellites. He was the architect for the signal processing for the NASA Ka band Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS) and for Milstar, the United States satellite based, global defense satellite communications systems.
Prof. Reisenfeld did design and analysis for the Integrated Ku band Communications and Radar System for the NASA Space Shuttle, the International Space Station Communication Systems, the NASA Pioneer Venus Mission, the NASA Orbiting Solar Observatory, and the NASA Galileo Mission to Jupiter. He also had major design responsibility on the imaging instruments onboard the LandSat Satellites.
He worked on numerous communication satellites including Intelsat Satellites, Inmarsat Satellites, and commercial domestic satellites, including the Australian Optus A and B Series Satellites.
From 1980 to 1983, he was an Adjunct Professor of Communications Engineering and Signal Processing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles . From 1988 until the current time, he held the position of Associate Professor of Telecommunications in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Technology , Sydney (UTS). While at UTS, from 1997 until 2005, has also held the position of Program Director for Ka band Research and Development of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRCSS). He is currently the Co-Director of the Centre for Real-time Information Networks (CRIN) at UTS. He teaches undergraduate subjects called Communication Theory and Mobile Communications and the postgraduate subject called Satellite Communications.
He is currently Chairman of the Joint Communications and Signal Processing Chapter of the IEEE in New South Wales ( Australia ). He was the Chairman of the Technical Program Committee of AusWireless'06 and is the current Chairman of the Technical Program Committee for AusWireless'07. He was the organizer of Globecom'98 in Sydney . He was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000.
He was an inventor for eight patents involving digital communication systems. |
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