Michael Honig

Michael L. Honig is the AT&T Research Professor and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. Recognized in the Computer Science community for his contributions to communications and networking, he earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from Stanford University in 1977, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1981. Prior to his faculty position at Northwestern, Honig worked at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, and in the Systems Principles Research Division at Bellcore in Morristown, New Jersey. He has held visiting scholar positions at the Naval Research Laboratory in San Diego, University of California, Berkeley, University of Sydney, Princeton University, the Technical University of Munich, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Honig’s research focuses on communications, signal processing, and networks, with recent work emphasizing wireless resource allocation, spectrum access rights and market mechanisms, interference mitigation, dynamic spectrum allocation, and macroeconomic modeling. He directs the Communications and Networking Laboratory at Northwestern University, developing algorithms and prototypes for advanced wireless networks. Key publications include “Blind Adaptive Multiuser Detection” (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1995, with U. Madhow and S. Verdú) and “Performance of Reduced-Rank Linear Interference Suppression” (with W. Xiao, awarded the 2002 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award). He is co-recipient of the 2010 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award. An IEEE Fellow and recipient of the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, Honig has served as Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (1998–2000) and IEEE Transactions on Communications (1990–1995), guest editor for multiple journals, member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee, and Board of Governors member for the IEEE Information Theory Society (1997–2002). His scholarship is evidenced by over 18,900 citations and an h-index of 62.

Professional Email: mhonig@northwestern.edu