astronomy

Peter Stoica

Peter Stoica is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Peter Stoica rather than just read about it. In short: Peter (Petre) Stoica (born 23 July 1949) is a researcher and educator in the field of signal processing and its applications to radar/sonar, communications and bio-medicine. He is a professor of Signals and Systems Modeling at Uppsala University in Sweden, and a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the United States National Academy of Engineering (International Member), the Romanian Academy…

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Peter (Petre) Stoica (born 23 July 1949) is a researcher and educator in the field of signal processing and its applications to radar/sonar, communications and bio-medicine. He is a professor of Signals and Systems Modeling at Uppsala University in Sweden, and a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the United States National Academy of Engineering (International Member), the Romanian Academy (Honorary Member), the European Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, EURASIP, IETI, NAAI, AIIA, AAIA and the Royal Statistical Society.

Biography Born in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Peter completed his secondary studies in his native city, after which he went to Bucharest, where he attended from 1967 to 1972 the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science of Politehnica University of Bucharest. In 1979, he obtained the title of Doctor of Engineering in the automatic control specialty, with the thesis "Identification of Systems", and then became a professor at Politehnica University. He is known for his theoretical contributions to system identification and modeling, spectral analysis, array signal processing, space-time coding, and waveform design for active sensing. His practical contributions include the areas of wireless communications, microwave imaging for breast cancer detection, radar/sonar systems, acoustic source mapping, landmine and explosive detection, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. His books on System Identification, Spectral Analysis, and Space-Time Coding for Wireless Communications have been used in both undergraduate and graduate courses and are highly cited (his works rank in the top 1% by citations for the field of engineering). He has been included on the ISI list of the 250 most highly cited researchers in engineering in the world.

Peter and his wife Anca-Juliana (a professor of software and system engineering, docent in the IT Dept of Uppsala University, and IEEE Life Senior Member) live in Uppsala, Sweden. The attached photo shows them during an awards ceremony at the Castle in Uppsala.

Selected awards The IEEE ASSP Senior Award, 1989 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at Uppsala University, Sweden 1993 The Shannon-Nyquist Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1996 The IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, 2000 The IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000 The EURASIP Individual Technical Achievement Award, 2002 The Bjorkenska Prize, 2004 The IEE Achievement Medal, 2005 The Wiener Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2006 The Barry Carlton Award of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, 2008 The IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2013 The EURASIP Athanasios Papoulis Award, 2016 Rudbeck Gold Medal, 2016 The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, 2018 The C.F. Gauss Education Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2019 The Sustained Impact Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2022

Selected publications Listed below are some of 800 scientific papers and 30 books and book chapters he wrote.

T. Söderström and P. Stoica, System Identification. Prentice-Hall, London, United Kingdom, 1989 (Paperback Edition 1994, Polish Edition 1997, Chinese Edition 2017). P. Stoica and R. Moses, Introduction to Spectral Analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, USA, 1997. P. Stoica and A. Nehorai, Music, Maximum likelihood and the Cramér-Rao bound. IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-37, 720–741, 1989. E Larsson and P Stoica, Space-Time Block Coding For Wireless Communications. Cambridge University Press, UK, 2003 (Chinese Edition, 2006). P Stoica and R Moses, Spectral Analysis of Signals. Prentice Hall, NJ, 2005 (Chinese Edition, 2007). H Sampath, P Stoica and A Paulraj, Generalized linear precoder and decoder design for MIMO channels using the weighted MMSE criterion. IEEE Trans Comm, vol 49, 2198–2206, 2001. A Scaglione, P Stoica, S Barbarossa, G Giannakis and H Sampath. Optimal designs for space-time linear precoders and decoders. IEEE Trans Signal Processing, vol 50, 1051–1064, 2002. J Li, P Stoica and Z Wang, On robust Capon beamforming and diagonal loading. IEEE Trans Signal Process, vol 51, 1702–1715, 2003. J Li and P Stoica, MIMO radar with colocated antennas: review of some recent work. IEEE Signal Processing Mag., 106–114, September, 2007. P. Stoica and A. Nehorai, Performance study of conditional and unconditional direction of arrival estimation. IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process., vol. ASSP-38, 1783–1795, Oct. 1990. Citation counts for the above publications can be found at Google Scholar.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Peter Stoica

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Peter Stoica claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Peter Stoica before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Peter Stoica ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Peter Stoica

In research: Peter Stoica appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Peter Stoica in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Peter Stoica is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1949 births, Academic staff of Uppsala University, Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Peter Stoica outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Peter Stoica matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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