Farid Dowla is a senior research engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and has been at LLNL since 1984.  Farid obtained his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from M.I.T. with specialization in communications and signal processing. His present research interests include high-frequency radio-wave communications, and micro-wave and millimeter-wave radar imaging techniques. He also worked many years in the areas of seismic, acoustics, and biomedical signal processing. He has taught graduate and undergraduate electrical engineering courses in signal processing and communications at U.C. Berkeley and U. C. Davis.