Daniel W. Bliss

Daniel W. Bliss is a Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also the Director of ASU's Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures (WISCA). Dan received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from the University of California at San Diego (1997 and 1995), and his BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University (1989). His current research topics include multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications; MIMO radar; RF convergence; distributed-coherent systems; positioning, navigation, and timing, and system-on-chip design for sophisticated signal processing. He is responsible for foundational contributions on all of these research topics.

Before moving to ASU Dan was a senior member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (1997-2012) in the Advanced Sensor Techniques group. Between his undergraduate and graduate degrees Dan was employed by General Dynamics (1989-1991), where he designed avionics for the Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle, and performed research and development of fault-tolerant avionics. As a member of the superconducting magnet group at General Dynamics (1991-1993), he performed magnetic field calculations and optimization for high-energy particle-accelerator superconducting magnets. His doctoral work (1993-1997) was in the area of high-energy particle physics, searching for bound states of gluons, studying the two-photon production of hadronic final states, and investigating innovative techniques for lattice-gauge-theory calculations. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has published over 200 technical articles and conference papers, and he received the 2021 IEEE Warren D. White Award for excellence in radar engineering.