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Daniel J. Costello, Jr. is Leonard Bettex Professor of Electrical Engineering.  He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Seattle University, Seattle, WA, in 1964, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, in 1966 and 1969, respectively.

In 1969 he joined the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.  He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1973, and to Full Professor in 1980.  In 1985 he became Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, and from 1989 to 1998 served as Chairman  of the Department of Electrical Engineering.  He also was a Visiting Professor at Cornell University (Summer 1971), the University of Notre Dame (1983-84), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Spring 1995), and the University of Hawaii (Fall 1998).  He has served as a professional consultant for Western Electric, Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, Motorola Communications, Digital Transmission Systems, Tomorrow, Inc., and Kirkland and Ellis.  In  1991, he was selected as one of 100 Seattle University alumni to receive the Centennial Alumni Award in recognition of alumni who have displayed outstanding service to others, exceptional leadership, or uncommon achievement.  In 1999, he received a Humboldt Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and he has served as a Guest Professor at the Institute for Communication Engineering, Technical University of Munich in 2001, 2003, and 2005.

Dr. Costello has been a member of IEEE since 1969 and was elected Fellow in 1985.  He served as a member of the Information Theory Society Board of Governors (1983-88, 1990-95, 2005-), and in 1986 served as President of the BOG.  From 1992-1995, he was Chair of the Conferences and Workshops Committee of the BOG.  He has also served as Associate Editor for Communication Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and as Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was Co-Chair of the 1988 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Kobe, Japan, the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Ulm, Germany, and the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Chicago, Illinois.  In 2000, he received the Third-Millennium Medal from the IEEE Information Theory Society.  In 2001-2003, he chaired the IEEE Information Theory Society’s Fellow Committee.

Dr. Costello’s research interests are in the area of digital communications, with special emphasis on error control coding and coded modulation.  He has numerous technical publications in his field, and in 1983 co-authored a textbook entitled “Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications”, the second edition of which was published in 2004.
Yih-Fang Huang is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering.  He joined the University of Notre Dame in 1982 upon receiving his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.  Dr. Huang received his B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1976, M.S.E.E. degree from University of Notre Dame in 1980, and M.A. degree from Princeton University in 1981.   Dr. Huang was awarded the University of Notre Dame's Presidential Award in 2003. 

Dr. Huang’s research interests focus on statistical communications and adaptive signal processing.  He works on signal detection and estimation problems with special interests in their applications to wireless communications.  Over the last two decades, collaborating with his students and colleagues, he has worked on Set-Membership Filtering (SMF) and Identification and developed a group of adaptive algorithms known as SMART (Set-Membership Adaptive Recursive Techniques).  His current interests are in applications of SMART to multiple-access and wireless communication systems, particularly on issues of interference mitigation.

Dr. Huang has been active in the professional societies, particularly the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).  He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (1989-1991) and Associate Editor for its Express Letters in 1992-93.  He was Vice President for IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1997-98 and was a Distinguished Lecturer for the same society in 2000-2001.  He received the IEEE-CAS Golden Jubilee Medal in 1999.  He will serve as Technical Program co-Chair for the 2007 IEEE International Conference in Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.  Dr. Huang was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1995.