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H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. From 2006 to 2016, he served as dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research activities are focused on advances in several fields of rapid technology development, notably wireless networks, social networks, and smart grids.

An author of 217 books and numerous articles in scientific and technical journals, Poor has been honored with a number of awards, honorary degrees, and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002), the IEEE Education Medal (2005), IET Fleming Medal, 2010, the URSI Booker Gold Medal (2014), the AAES John Fritz Medal (2016), and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (2017). He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo in Canada, Syracuse University, Aalto University in Finland, Aalborg University in Denmark, HKUST in Hong Kong, and the University of Edinburgh in the U.K., 2011.

Poor received a B.E.E. with the highest honor and an M.S in electrical engineering from Auburn University and an M.A and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University.