Jeremiah F. Hayes

Jeremiah F. Hayes was a North American professor of electrical engineering. He worked with Andrew Viterbi for combining Erlang (unit) with Shannon–Hartley theorem, and published the first book on the topic of computer communications, he was honored as IEEE fellow in 1983[1] for this contribution. He also co-authored a communications textbook with Richard D. Gitlin. He received the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research in 1996.[2] Jeremiah Francis Hayes was born on July 8 in New York NY USA, 1934 and died on May 8, 2018 in Victoria BC, Canada.

Early life and education

Hayes [3] received his B.E.E Degree from Manhattan College 1956 with honors. He later received a M.Sc. Mathematics degree from New York University. From 1956 to 1959, Hayes received professional training under Bell Telephone Laboratories Communications Development Training Program. He graduated with a PhD from University of California, Berkeley with distinction in 1966; his Ph.D supervisor was George L. Turin.

Career

Hayes was an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCB from 1962 to 1964, and returned as assistant professor in 1966. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, as an assistant professor from 1966 to 1978. From 1974 to 1978, he served as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York. Hayes also worked as a professor at McGill University, in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he served a professor from 1978 to 1984, and as adjunct professor from 1984 to present. Hayes also works as a professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was recognized as an Erskine Fellow in 1996. He served as a Department chair at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, from 1984 to 1989, retired as distinguished professor Emeritus, and later as a professor from 1984 to present, where he co-supervised Jun (Steed) Huang with Canada Research Chair Prof. Tho Le-Ngoc on the project of broadband satellite.[4] Steed is teaching at Ottawa using the paper book listed below that Jerry Hayes co-authored with Ganesh Babu as of 2020 winter. Hayes later joined the University of Victoria as an adjunct professor from 2005.

Family

Hayes had four children Mary, Ann, Jemmy(filmmaker) and Martin, his wife is Florence.

References
  1. "List of Canadian IEEE Fellows".
  2. "Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research (CATR)". Canadian Society of Information Theory. September 21, 2016.
  3. "Dr. Jeremiah Hayes Curriculum Vitae" (PDF).
  4. Jun Huang; Tho Le-Ngoc; Hayes, J.E. (September 5, 1995). "Performance of a broadband satellite communications system". Proceedings 1995 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. 1. IEEE Xplore Digital Library. pp. 141–144. doi:10.1109/CCECE.1995.528094. ISBN 0-7803-2766-7.
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