Dr. Kristine Bell, Senior Scientist, has been named an IEEE Fellow. She is being recognized for contributions to statistical signal processing with radar and sonar applications.

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Dr. Bell joined Metron as a Senior Scientist in 2009.  Previously, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics in The Volgenau School of IT & Engineering at George Mason University.  An expert in Signal Processing, Dr. Bell was the Chair of the Senor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM) Technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.  Her many publications include Bayesian Bounds, a book she edited with H. L. Van Trees.

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