He received the B.S.,
summa cum laude, and M.S. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from
Brigham Young University,
Provo,
Utah, in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University in 1991. From 1986-1990, he was employed at
ESL, Inc., of
Sunnyvale, CA, where he was involved in the design of algorithms and architectures for several
radar and
sonar signal processing systems. He was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Brigham Young University from 1990–2007, where he was a Full Professor and served as Department Chair from 2003-2006. During 1996-1997, he held a joint appointment as a visiting scholar at both
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and at the Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm,
Sweden. From 2006-07, he was the Vice President of Research for
ArrayComm LLC in San Jose, California. After leaving ArrayComm in 2008, he began working at UC Irvine where he is currently the Assistant Dean. Dr. Swindlehurst is a Fellow of the
IEEE (2004) for contributions to the field of space-time signal processing for radar and wireless communications, and a past Secretary of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and has served as a member of the Editorial Boards for the
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and is a past Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He was elected to the
Tau Beta Pi society in 1985. He is a recipient of several paper awards: the 2000 IEEE W. R. G.
Baker Prize Paper Award, the 2006, 2010, and 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Best Paper Award, the 2006 IEEE Communications Society
Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communication Theory, and is co-author of a paper that received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2001. == References ==