April 30, 2025
Dominic Ho was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s prestigious Sustained Impact Paper for his study on signal localization.
Continuing a Mizzou Engineering legacy of excellence in innovation, Dominic K.C. Ho has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society’s prestigious Sustained Impact Paper Award for his influential and enduring work.
Ho, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was presented with the award at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in April.
Each year, the IEEE Signal Processing Society selects one journal paper out of all papers published from 1950 up to 10 years before the present year. Judging is based on novelty and effectiveness of presenting subjects of high impact and long-term interest.
“I’m honored to have been selected,” Ho said. “As engineers, we always aim to find effective and novel solutions to real-world issues. To see my research help advance the work of so many others is extremely gratifying and humbling.”
“A simple and efficient estimator for hyperbolic location” was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 1994. It describes a signal localization method that is faster and simpler than the more common Taylor-series or divide-and-conquer approaches and works better than spherical-interpolation.
The paper has been cited 3,624 times and remains relevant to researchers and practitioners today, Syed Kamrul Islam, chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, said.
“This work now forms the theoretical basis for much of the contemporary work in source localization and introduced methods that are now broadly adopted,” Islam said. “All of us at Mizzou Engineering are proud of Dr. Ho’s achievements and inspired by his commitment to excellence in research.”
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