Robert Arno Scholtz (born c. 1936) is a distinguished professor of

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ing at

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, known for

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and

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s. See section ''2006 - Robert A. Scholtz and Moe Z. Win''. A 1958 graduate and distinguished alumnus from

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, he obtained his PhD at

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in 1964. Starting his career at

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, he joined the University of Southern California in 1963. His research work centers on

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theory and

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. He has also contributed extensively to

and

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. Scholtz is a life fellow of the

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(1980) for contributions to the theory and design of synchronizable codes for digital communications and radar systems. He was also elected a member of the

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(2009) for contributions to the fields of ultra-wideband and spread-spectrum communications. He received the

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(1984), and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2006), together with Moe Z. Win. His past PhD students include information theorist

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, professor at

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, Moe Z. Win and professor Ranjan Kumar Mallik at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

Books

*Spread Spectrum Communications (with M. K. Simon et al.), Computer Science Press, 1984. *Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook (with M. K. Simon et al.), McGraw Hill, 1994. *Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding (with S. W. Golomb and R. Peile), Plenum Press, 1994

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