He received the Bachelor of Surgery, summa cum laude, and Master of Surgery degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991.
He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. From 1986-1990, he was employed at English as Second Language, Incorporated., of Sunnyvale, California, where he was involved in the design of algorithms and architectures for several radar and sonar signal processing systems He was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University from 1990–2007, where he was a Full Professor and served as Department Chair from 2003-2006.
During 1996-1997, he held a joint appointment as a visiting scholar at both Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
From 2006-2007, he was the Vice President of Research for ArrayComm Limited Liability Company in San Jose, California. Doctor Swindlehurst is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2004), and a past Secretary of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society.
He was elected to the Tau Beta Pi society in 1985.
He is a recipient of several paper awards: the 2000 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers W. R. G. Baker Prize Paper Award, the 2006 and 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society’s Best Paper Award, the 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communication Theory, and is co-author of a paper that received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2001.
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He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and has served as a member of the Editorial Boards for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Magazine, and is a past Associate Editor for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Signal Processing.
