Peter Willett (F’03) had been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, since 1986. In 1998, he became a Professor. Since 2003, he has been an IEEE Fellow. His primary areas of research have been statistical signal processing, detection, machine learning, communications, data fusion, and tracking. He was the Chief Editor for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine from 2018 to 2020. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems from 2006 to 2011 and for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2014 to 2016. He was also AESS Vice President for Publications from 2012 to 2014. He is a member of the IEEE Fellows Committee, Ethics Committee, and Periodicals Committee, as well as the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Technical Activities and Conference Boards. He is a member of the IEEE AESS Board of Governors and was Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Sensor-Array and Multichannel (SAM) technical committee.