Yaakov Bar­Shalom (F'84) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Technion in 1963 and 1967 and the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1970, all in EE. Currently he is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the ECE Dept. and Marianne E. Klewin Professor at the University of Connecticut. His current research interests are in estimation theory, target tracking and data fusion. He has published over 650 papers and book chapters (>71,000 citations, h=103). He coauthored/edited 8 books, including Tracking and Data Fusion (YBS Publishing, 2011). He has been elected Fellow of IEEE for "contributions to the theory of stochastic systems and of multitarget tracking". He served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He was General Chairman of the 1985 ACC, General Chairman of FUSION 2000, President of ISIF in 2000 and 2002 and ice President for Publications during 2004-13. Since 1995 he is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AESS. He is corecipient of the M. Barry Carlton Award for the best paper in the IEEE TAE Systems in 1995 and 2000. In 2002 he received the J. Mignona Data Fusion Award from the DoD JDL Data Fusion Group. He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. In 2008 he was awarded the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, and in 2012 the Connecticut Medal of Technology. He has been listed by academic.research.microsoft (top authors in engineering) as #1 among the researchers in Aerospace Engineering based on the citations of his work. He is the recipient of the 2015 ISIF Award for a Lifetime of Excellence in Information Fusion. This award has been renamed in 2016 as the ISIF Yaakov Bar-Shalom Award for a Lifetime of Excellence in Information Fusion. He is also the recipient (with H. Blom) of the IEEE AESS Pioneer Award for the invention of the IMM Estimator. He has been listed in the Stanford Top 2% Researchers List in 2023. He is also co-recipient of the 2023 Naval Research Lab Alan Berman Research Publication Award.