Yeheskel Bar-Ness, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), passed away on 1 July 2024 at the age of 92. 

Professor Bar-Ness received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1958 and 1963, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree (applied mathematics) from Brown University in 1969. He worked for the Rafael Armament Development Authority, Israel, in the fields of communications and control; and for the Nuclear Medicine Department, Elscint Ltd., Haifa, as a Chief Engineer in the fields of control and image and data processing. In 1973, he joined the School of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, where he held the position of Associate Professor of Control and Communication. Between September 1978 and September 1979, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics, Brown University. Subsequently, he was on leave with the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. He came to NJIT from AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1985, and served at NJIT until his retirement in 2013. Among his activities at NJIT was the founding of the Center for Wireless Communication and Signal Processing Research. He was advisor to 18 NJIT students who graduated with a Ph.D. degree.  

Professor Bar-Ness was an internationally known expert in communications and signal processing. He made important contributions to the theory and application of phased lock loops, independent component analysis and adaptive arrays.  Among his achievements, he was the founder and the first Editor-in-Chief of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He was a recipient of IEEE Communications Society Publications Exemplary Service Award (2005), and NJIT’s 2014 Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award. He was a Fellow of IEEE “for contributions to the advancement of coherent communications and array processing” (1989). His work was disseminated in more than 200 published papers, and was supported by the NSF, NJCST, the US Army, the US Air Force (Rome Lab), and the Naval Oceanic Center, as well as Interdigital and Samsung. 

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