Dr.
Michael Steiner, a radar
engineer with the Naval Research
Laboratory's (NRL's) Radar
Division, was recently
awarded the "Young Radar Engineer
of the Year Award"
by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE)
Radar Systems Panel of the Aerospace and Electronic
Systems
Society (AESS). The award grants international recognition
for
outstanding contributions to the radar art by IEEE/AESS members
under the age of forty. Dr. Steiner received the award at the
IEEE International Radar Conference in Washington, DC, in May
2000.
The award was established by
the IEEE/AESS in
honor of the late Fred Nathanson to encourage
individual effort
and to foster increased professional participation
by
developing radar engineers. The IEEE award consists of a
commemorative
recognition plaque, an honorarium, and a travel
stipend for attendance
at the conference at which the award is
presented. The recipient
can also make a separate application
to the Fred Nathanson Memorial
Fund for an additional
grant.
The award
nomination states "Dr.
Steiner is an active contributor in
the conception, direction,
and development of both theoretical
techniques and practical
systems aimed at improving the
detection capability of radars."
Dr. Steiner received his BSEE
degree
from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, in 1986; his
MSEE and
PhD. degrees from the University of Maryland, College
Park, MD,
in 1988 and 1994 respectively.
Dr. Steiner joined the RCA Corporation
as a co-op
engineer, 1982-1985. He returned to Drexel University
in 1985
as a research assistant. Dr. Steiner joined the University
of
Maryland as a teaching and research assistant in 1986, and
then
came to NRL's Radar Division as a radar engineer in 1988.
He
served as a professional lecturer at George Washington, University,
Washington, DC, in 1997.
According to his nomination,
Dr. Steiner is a
member of a core planning group responsible
for developing
advanced Navy radars He was recently the principal
investigator
for the efforts on two AEGIS programs: the Adaptive
Clutter
Cancellation (ACC) project and the High Range Resolution
(HRR)
project. In this capacity, Dr. Steiner's contributions
significantly improved the target detectability of the AEGIS
radar system.
Other
accomplishments in the
radar field made by Dr. Steiner include:
development of techniques
to detect targets in interference;
development of several important
adaptive algorithms used to
reject jamming and clutter; development
of several new pulse
equalization algorithms that significantly
improve the ability
of Navy radars (such as SPN-43, AEGIS) to
detect targets in
clutter; significant contributions to the research
of
ultra-wide-band (UWB) radar; contributions to signal processing
research for the MK-92 MOD 2 CANDO project; and development of
new techniques to reduce the effects of multiple interval clutter
and a new target algorithm for staggered Pulse Repetition Frequency
(PRF) radar. Dr. Steiner provided valuable technical assistance
in the design of the Anti-ship Missile Defense (ASMD) AN/SPQ-9
radar upgrade from its conception and the AN/SPS-49 Medium PRF
Upgrade (MPU) air-surveillance radar project. He conceived an
innovative method for designing Doppler filters based on a mini-max
principal and provided several significant contributions to
communication
theory including the disproving of the famous
'Simplex Conjecture'.
Dr. Steiner is a recipient of
the 1991 National Radar Conference
Best Paper Award and the NRL
Alan Berman Publication Award in
1992 and 1997. During his
career, Dr. Steiner has authored over
18 publications,
conference papers and research reports.
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