Information

Membership Number: FCA3538

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences 

Corresponding Email: ****@princeton.edu

Homepage(s): https://ece.princeton.edu/people/h-vincent-poor 

Present and Previous Positions

Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Electrical Engineering; Information Theory; Wireless Communications; Signal Processing; Statistical Inference; Network Science; Machine Learning; Energy Systems

Professor Poor’s scholarship lies at the intersection of communications, information, inference, and complex systems. His work has been especially influential in the mathematical and engineering foundations of wireless communications and signal processing, where he has helped develop methods that underpin the analysis, design, and optimization of communication systems under uncertainty. 

Princeton Engineering describes his research as foundational to the rise of digital and wireless communications. Over time, his research has broadened into network science, machine learning, and energy systems, while remaining grounded in rigorous probabilistic and statistical thinking. This combination of theoretical depth and contemporary relevance has made his work important not only within electrical engineering, but also across a wider landscape of modern quantitative science and engineering.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

• D.Eng., honoris causa, University of Sydney (2026)

• Fellow, International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected 2026)

• D.Sc., honoris causa, Imperial College (2025)

• Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award, IEEE Information Theory Society (2025)

• Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy (elected 2024)

• Moore Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (Fall 2024)

• Gordon McKay Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley (Fall 2024)

• Corresponding Member, Australian Academy of Science (elected 2024)

• Member, American Academy of Sciences and Letters (elected 2024)

• Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (elected 2023)

• Foreign Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (elected 2023)

• IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (2023)

• Hot Paper Award, Science China Information Sciences (2023)

• Fellow, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University (2018-2023)

• Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2022)

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2022)

• Foreign Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (elected 2021)

• Hall of Fame Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2021)

• Corresponding Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (elected 2020)

• IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prize (2020)

• D.Eng., honoris causa, University of Waterloo (2019)

• ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award (2019)

• IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award (2018)

• IEEE Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award (2018)

• Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences (elected 2017)

• D.Sc., honoris causa, Syracuse University (2017)

• IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (2017)

• Honorary Member, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea (elected 2017)

• Foreign Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea (elected 2017)

• Fellow, International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (elected 2017)

• Best Paper Award Award, Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea  (1st prize) (2017)

• Miller Visiting Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley (Spring 2017)

• John Fritz Medal (2016)

• Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University (elected 2016)

• Honorary Professor, Peking University (elected 2016)

• Best Paper Award, German Information Technology Society (ITG-Preis) (2016)

• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (elected 2015)

• Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (elected 2015)

• Outstanding Mentorship Award, IEEE Women in Communications Engineering (2015)

• EURASIP Athanasios Papoulis Award (2015)

• D.Sc. honoris causa, Aalto University (2014)

• Foreign Member, Royal Society (elected 2014)

• Distinguished Chair Professor for Research, National Taiwan University (appointed 2014)

• URSI Booker Gold Medal (2014)

• Member, State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame (inducted 2014)

• Best Paper Awards, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking (2014, 2009, 2006)

• Corresponding Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2013)

• Foreign Member, Academia Europaea (elected 2013)

• Best Paper Award, EMO Bilmisel Dergi (2013)

• D.Eng. honoris causa, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2012)

• D.Tech. honoris causa, Aalborg University (2012)

• Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (elected 2012)

• Royal Academy Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Imperial College London (Fall 2012)

• Member, National Academy of Sciences (elected 2011)

• Norbert Wiener Society Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2011)

• IEEE Information Theory Paper Award (2011)

• D.Sc. honoris causa, University of Edinburgh (2011)

• IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2011)

• IET Ambrose Fleming Medal for Achievement in Communications (2010)

• International Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.) (elected 2009)

• Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society (2009)

• Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Information Theory Society (2008)

• Eminent Member, Eta Kappa Nu (elected 2008)

• IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (2007)

• Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2007)

• IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr., Education Medal (2005)

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (elected 2005)

• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Tau Beta Pi (2005)

• William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education, IEEE Education Society (2005)

• IEEE EAB Major Educational Innovation Award (2004)

• Distinguished Teacher Award, Princeton School of Engineering & Applied Science (2003)

• Fellow, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) (elected 2003)

• Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2002)

• NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (2002)

• Member, National Academy of Engineering (U.S.) (elected 2001)

• Fellow, Optical Society of America (elected 2001)

• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (elected 2001)

• IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award (2001)

• Joint Paper Award, IEEE Communications and Information Theory Societies (2000)

• IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)

• Distinguished Member Award, IEEE Control Systems Society (1994)

• ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award (1992)

• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America (elected 1992)

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected 1991)

• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (elected 1987)

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Dq93mOUAAAAJ&hl=en 

1. “Resource Constrained Learning over Wireless Networks,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A , Vol. 384, Article 20240508, 2026

2. “Integrated Framework to Study Genomic Surveillance of Selective Sweeps in Multi-variants Dynamics,” (with B. Espinoza, et al.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., Vol. 123, No. 11, Article e2521031123, 2026

3. “Diffusion Models as Network Optimizers: Explorations and Analysis,” (with R. Liang, et al.). IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 13183 – 13193, 2025

4. “How Physicality Enables Cy-Trust: A New Era of Trust-Centered Cyber-Physical Systems,” (with S. Gil, et al.) Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 113, No. 10, pp. 1121 – 1154, 2025

5. “Resilience of the Electric Grid through Trustable IoT-Coordinated Assets,” (with V. Nair, et al.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., Vol. 122, No. 8, Article e2413967121, 2025

Other Information

https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/h-vincent-poor-aaotah/ 

https://www.amacad.org/person/h-vincent-poor 

https://www.nae.edu/30565/Dr-H-Vincent-Poor