Adaptive Antennas and Phased Arrays
Dr. Alan J. Fenn - Biography
Alan J. Fenn
is a senior staff member in the Advanced RF Sensing and Exploitation
Group at Lincoln
Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is deputy manager for
antenna measurements in
the RF Systems Test Facility at Lincoln Laboratory. He has conducted extensive
research in the area
of phased array antennas. He joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1981 and was a member
of the Space Radar Technology Group from 1982 to 1991, where his primary
research was in adaptive
phased-array antenna design and testing. From 1992 to 1999 he was an assistant
group leader in the Radio
Frequency Technology Group, where he managed programs involving measurements of
atmospheric effects
on satellite communications. From 1978 to 1981, he was a senior engineer in the
Antenna Systems Design/Analysis Group in the RF
Systems Department at Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, Colorado. He received
a B.S. from the
University of Illinois at Chicago in 1974, and an M.S. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1978
from The Ohio State
University, Columbus, all in electrical engineering.
Dr. Fenn was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 for his contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive phased-array antennas. He was technical program cochairman of the 2001 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium. He has served as an associate editor in the area of adaptive antennas for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. In 1990 he was a corecipient of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society's H.A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award. He also received the IEEE/URSI-sponsored 1994 International Symposium on Antennas (JINA 94) award. Dr. Fenn is an author of three books and a coauthor of one book chapter as well as the author of numerous journal articles, patents, and short-course lectures and conference presentations on adaptive phased array antennas.
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