Fellow RSE (2013) Member, NAS (2011) IET Achievement Medals (2010) FREng (2009) Member, NAE (2001) AAAS Fellow (1991) Harold Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also the Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

[3][4] He is a specialist in wireless telecommunications, signal processing and information theory.

[7] Poor received a BSEE degree from Auburn University in 1972,[8] and a MSEE from there in 1974.

His research interests lie in the areas of stochastic analysis, statistical signal processing and information theory, and their applications in a number of fields including wireless networks, social networks, and smart grid.

He was inducted as Fellow of the IEEE in 1987 for contributions to the theory of robust linear filtering applied to signal detection and estimation,[16] of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1991, of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2001, of the Optical Society of America in 2001, and of the Institution of Engineering and Technology[17] in 2010.