Petar M. Djurić received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, in 1981 and 1986, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island (1990).

From 1981 to 1986, Prof. Djurić was a Research Associate with the Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Vinca, Belgrade. Since 1990, he has been with Stony Brook University, where he is Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the area of statistical signal processing, and his primary interests are in the theory of modeling, detection, estimation, and time series analysis and its application to a wide variety of disciplines including wireless communications and biomedicine.

Prof. Djurić has served on numerous technical committees for the IEEE and has been invited to lecture at universities in the United States and overseas. His SPS activities include: Vice President-Finance (2006-09); Area Editor of Special Issues, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2002-05); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1994-96 and 2003-05); Chair, SPS Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2005-06); and Treasurer, SPS Conference Board (2001-03). He is an Editorial Board Member, IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier Signal Processing, and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

Prof. Djurić is an IEEE Fellow, as well as a Member of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2008-2009 and got the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2012.