Professor Haris Vikalo Joins WNCG

WNCG welcomes its newest faculty member, Haris Vikalo, PhD. Professor Vikalo has been with UT ECE since September 2007, teaching a variety of classes including Genomic Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Probability & Random Processes, and Estimation Theory. Professor Vikalo has done highly regarded work on MIMO systems during his PhD at Stanford before switching his research area to genomic signal processing several years ago during his postdoc at Caltech. He brings a new dimension to WNCG as wireless becomes an increasingly important enabler for health and medical applications.

Haris Vikalo received his B.S. degree from University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1995, the M.S. degree from Lehigh University in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2003, all in electrical engineering. He held a short-term appointment at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, in the summer of 1999. From January 2003 to July 2003 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher, and from July 2003 to August 2007 he was an Associate Scientist at California Institute of Technology. Since September 2007, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. In 2009, Dr. Vikalo was awarded the NSF CAREER award. His main research focus is on signal processing and computational aspects of biosensors and biological networks, communications, and algorithm complexity.