MONROE — Dr. Yeheskel Bar-Ness of Monroe, a distinguished professor emeritus at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received the second annual Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony on Oct. 2.
Bar-Ness is the founder of the Elisha Yegal Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research at NJIT, which has long been at the forefront of wireless technology.
Since its establishment in 1985, the center has contributed key technological ad- vances in communications, including a set of algorithms that facilitate code division multiple access, a digital cellphone technology that eliminates interference caused by high cellphone usage.
Bar-Ness and his colleagues have developed breakthrough technologies, including a technology known as multiple input/multiple output, which uses antenna arrays to increase the bit rate of wireless communications.
In other critical work, he led a collaborative project with Samsung to improve the capability of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, a certification mark for products that pass conformity tests established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
“His central role in technological innovation has, without exaggeration, transformed the way we interact with each other every day. He has made major contributions to the evolution of wireless communications, technology basic to the practical development of systems that have made cellphones ubiquitous and which underlie the transport of data for myriad applications,” said Dr. Don Sebastian, NJIT’s senior vice president for technology and business development, and president and CEO of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute. “His name appears on more than two-dozen patents.”