Kevin M. Buckley, Professor

Kevin Buckley received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Villanova University in Pennsylvania in 1976 and 1980, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1986. From 1980 to 1982, he worked at Sonic Sciences Inc., Warminister Pa., on communication and sonar applications of digital signal processing. In 1982-83, he worked as a full time instructor at Villanova University. He was on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota from 1986 to 1997. He is currently a full professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Villanova University.

• ECE 3240 - Discrete-Time Signals and Systems (Spring 2005)
• ECE 8770 - Topics in Digital Communications (Spring 2005)


• ECE 3220 - Signal Processing (Fall 2004)
• ECE 5790 -Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2004)
• ECE 8072 - Statistical Signal Processing (Fall 2004)
• ECE 8771 - Information and Coding for Digital Communications (Spring 2003)
• ECE 3720 - Engineering Probability & Statistics (Fall 2001)

Professional Interests

Research in the general area of signal processing and communications, with current emphasis in:

• Optimum and Adaptive Filtering;
• Parameter and Spectrum Estimation;
• DSP Applications (e.g. biomedical signal processing, sensor array processing, digital communications).

• Undergraduate: Signals and Systems; Random Processes in Electrical Engineering; Digital Signal Processing
• Graduate: Digital Signal Processing; Topics in Communications Theory; Adaptive Filtering; Estimation and Detection; Array Signal Processing.

Honors and Awards

• 1989 Gallen Award: Annual Villanova University Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award.
• 1990 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.
• 1995/96 Eta Kappa Nu - Omicron Chapter and The Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Minnesota Outstanding Teaching Professor Award.

Professional Society Service

• Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 1995 - 1999.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Sigal Processing Transactions, 1/93 - 12/94.
• Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society Statistical Signal and Array Processing (SSAP) Tec. Committee, 5/92 - 5/94.
• Vice-Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society SSAP Tec. Committee, 5/90 - 5/92.
• Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society SSAP Tec. Committee, 5/88 - 5/94, 5/95 - present.
• Co-Chair of Technical Program, IEEE 1993 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-93), Minneapolis, MN., Apr. 1993.
• Organization Committee: ONR \& NSF Sponsored Workshop on Higher Order Statistics, Vail, CO., June 1989.
• Co-Chairman: IEEE ASSP Fourth Workshop on Spectrum Estimation and Modeling, Minneapolis, MN., Aug. 1988.