John S. Baras

Biographical Sketch

John S. Baras holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research. He was the founding director of ISR, which is one of the first six National Science Foundation engineering research centers. Dr. Baras is the Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering and is the founding and current director of the Center for Hybrid and Satellite Communication Networks, a NASA commercial space center. He also serves as a faculty member of the university's Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics and an affiliate professor in the Computer Science Department. ... more

Affiliations

• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
• Institute for Systems Research (ISR)
• Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (HyNet)
• Systems Engineering and Integration Lab (SEIL)
• Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures (CDCSS)
• Neural Systems Lab (NSL)
• Center for Auditory and Acoustic Research (CAAR)
• Computer Aided Control Systems Engineering Lab (CACSE)
• Intelligent Servosystems Lab (ISL)

Honors and Awards

• Ch. Chrysovergis Award, June 1971; awarded by the Senate of the National Technical University of Athens, to the outstanding graduating student from the Department of Electrical Engineering.


• 1978, Naval Research Laboratory Research Publication Award; for “Ship RCS Scintillation Simulation”, Naval Research Laboratory Technical Report 8189, May 2, 1978.


• 1980, Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE, Control Systems Society; for “Discrete-Time Point Processes in Urban Traffic Queue Estimation”, IEEE Trans. On Automatic Control, AC-24, No. 1, pp. 12-27, February 1979, chosen among papers published in the IEEE Trans. On Automatic Control Vol. AC-23 (1978), and Vol. AC-24 (1979), December 11, 1980.


• 1983, Alan Berman Research Publication Award, from the Naval Research Laboratory; for "Analysis and Evaluation of an Advanced EW System I: Deterministic Formulation", Naval Research Laboratory Technical Report 8629, August 11, 1983.


• 1984, IEEE Fellow; “for contributions to distributed parameter systems theory, quantum and nonlinear estimation, and control of queuing systems”.


• 1991, Outstanding Invention of the Year Award from the University of Maryland for the invention of a “Low Complexity CELP Speech Coder”.


• 1993, Alan Berman Research Publication Award, from the Naval Research Laboratory; for “Hierarchical Wavelet Representations of Ship Radar Returns”, Naval Research Laboratory Technical Report NRL/FR/5750-93-9593, December 31, 1993.


• 1994, Outstanding Invention of the Year Award from the University of Maryland for the invention of “A System Design for a Hybrid Network Data Communications Terminal Using Asymmetric TCP/IP to Support Internet Applications”.


• 1995, Award for Outstanding Performance for Analysis, Engineering and Implementation of a Novel, Actively Controlled Toolpost for High Precision Machining, from the Smart Materials and Structures DARPA Partnership Team, led by Martin Marietta Corporation.


• 1995, November, Outstanding Contributions to Seniors Award, from the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Senior Council, University of Maryland.


• 1996, January, Outstanding Paper Award, for “ATM in Hybrid Networks” presented at Design SuperCon 1996 Conference, Santa Clara, CA.


• 1996, April, Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) Research Award of Excellence for Outstanding Contributions in Advancing Maryland Industry, for research, development and commercialization done with Hughes Network Systems.


• 1997, June, Outstanding Service and Contributions to the Development of Strategic Directions for Increasing the Competitiveness of Maryland’s Growth Industry Sectors, presented by the Maryland Economic Development Commission in collaboration with the Department of Business and Economic Development of the State of Maryland.


• 1998, December, Mancur Olson Research Achievement Award, from the University of Maryland College Park; award honors faculty whose research achievements have been extraordinary over a long time period.


• 1999, Interviewed by J. Harter of WJLA Channel 7, on my research on wireless Internet, and appeared in the Channel 7, Five-o’clock News program, on February 5, 1999.


• 1999, April, Finalist in the Invention of the Year Competition for 1998, University of Maryland College Park, for the invention “A Method for Distributed Shared Key Generation Using Fractional Keys”.


• 2002, December, Best Paper Award in IT/C4ISR (Information Technology, Information Technology/Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) at the 23rd Army Science Conference; for “On-Line Detection of Distributed Attacks from Space-Time Network Flow Patterns”.


• 2007, June, Best Paper Award, IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Leonard G. Abraham Prize in Communication Systems, presented at the International Conference on Communications (ICC2007), for “On Trust Models and Trust Evaluation Metrics for Ad Hoc Networks”.