Alfred O. Hero III received the B.S. (summa cum laude) from Boston University (1980) and the Ph.D from Princeton
University (1984), both in Electrical Engineering. Since 1984 he has been with the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, where he is the John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science and the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering. He is also the Co-Director
of the University’s Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) . His primary appointment is in the Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and he also has appointments, by courtesy, in the Department
of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Statistics. From 2008 to 2013 he held the Digiteo Chaire
d’Excellence, sponsored by Digiteo Research Park in Paris, located at the Ecole Superieure d’Electricite, Gif-sur-
Yvette, France. He has held other visiting positions at LIDS Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006), Boston
University (2006), I3S University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France (2001), Ecole Normale Sup\’erieure de Lyon
(1999), Ecole Nationale Sup\’erieure des T\’el\’ecommunications, Paris (1999), Lucent Bell Laboratories (1999),
Scientific Research Labs of the Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan (1993), Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Techniques Avancees (ENSTA), Ecole Superieure d’Electricite, Paris (1990), and M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory (1987 -
1989).
Alfred Hero is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received the University of
Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (2011). He has been plenary and keynote speaker at several
workshops and conferences. He has received several best paper awards including: an IEEE Signal Processing
Society Best Paper Award (1998), a Best Original Paper Award from the Journal of Flow Cytometry (2008), a Best
Magazine Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010), a SPIE Best Student Paper Award (2011),
an IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award (2011), an AISTATS Notable Paper Award (2013), and an IEEE ICIP
Best Paper Award (2013). He received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), an
IEEE Third Millenium Medal (2000), an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturership (2002), and
an IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2014). He was President of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society (2006-2007). He was a member of the IEEE TAB Society Review Committee (2009), the IEEE
Awards Committee (2010-2011), and served on the Board of Directors of the IEEE (2009-2011) as Director of
Division IX (Signals and Applications). He served on the IEEE TAB Nominations and Appointments Committee
(2012-2014). Alfred Hero is currently a member of the Big Data Special Interest Group (SIG) of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics
(CATS) of the US National Academies of Science. In 2015 he received the Society Award, which is the highest
career award bestowed by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Alfred Hero’s recent research interests are in the data science of high dimensional spatio-temporal data,
statistical signal processing, and machine learning. Of particular interest are applications to networks, including
social networks, multi-modal sensing and tracking, database indexing and retrieval, imaging, biomedical signal
processing, and biomolecular signal processing.