Michael Rice received the PhD from Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia in 1991. He was with Digital Transmission Systems, Inc., Atlanta, and joined the faculty with Brigham Young University, 

Provo, UT, USA, in 1991, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. During 1994 and 1995, he was a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, where he worked on land mobile satellite systems. During the 1999 and 2000 academic years, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute, San Diego State University. 

He has been a consultant to both Government and Industry on telemetry-related issues and currently serves as an Associate Member of the Telemetry Group of the Range Commander’s Council. His research interests include digital communication theory and statistical signal processing with a special emphasis on applications to aeronautical telemetry and software radio design. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society and is the Past Chair of the Communication Theory Technical Committee. 

He is also a member of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society and past member of the  Board of Governors for the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. He was the Editor-in-Chief for \textsc{IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems} from 2018-2022. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to communication waveforms, detection algorithms, and channel models for aeronautical telemetry.