Steven M. Kay is one of the world’s leading experts in statistical signal processing. Currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, he has consulted for numerous industrial concerns, the Air Force, Army, and Navy, and has taught short courses to scientists and engineers at NASA and the CIA. Dr. Kay is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi. He has received the Education Award for “outstanding contributions in education and in writing scholarly book and texts…” from the IEEE Signal Processing society and has been listed as among the 250 most cited researchers in the world in engineering.