Robert Arno Scholtz (born c. 1936) is a distinguished professor of electrical engineering at University of Southern California, known for ultra-wideband and spread spectrum communications.
Scholtz is a life fellow of the IEEE (1980)[4] for contributions to the theory and design of synchronizable codes for digital communications and radar systems.
[5] He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2009) for contributions to the fields of ultra-wideband and spread-spectrum communications.
[2][7] His past PhD students include information theorist Robert M. Gray, professor at MIT, Moe Z.
Win and professor Ranjan Kumar Mallik at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.