Project Members
Jeff Andrews
University of Texas at Austin
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~jandrews/
Jeffrey Andrews is an associate professor in the ECE Department at the University of Texas (UT) Austin, where he is director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. He received a B.S. with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He worked at Qualcomm from 1995 to 1997, and has consulted for the WiMAX Forum, Microsoft, ADC, Ricoh, and NASA. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2007 and is the principal investigator of a nine-university team in DARPA’s Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks program.
Randall Berry
Northwestern University
http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~rberry/
Randall Berry received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1993 and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and 2000 respectively. In 2000, he joined Northwestern University, where he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was on the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1998 and a visiting scientist at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. He is the recipient of a 2003 NSF CAREER award.
Dongning Guo
Northwestern University
http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~dguo/
Dongning Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Northwestern University. He received the Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from Princeton University, the M.Eng. degree from the National University of Singapore and the B.Eng. degree from University of Science & Technology of China. He was an R&D Engineer in the Centre for Wireless Communications, Singapore from 1998 to 1999. He was a Visiting Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in summer 2006. He received the Huber and Suhner Best Student Paper Award in the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications in 2000, and the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
Martin Haenggi
Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/~mhaenggi
Martin Haenggi is an Associate Professor in the EE Department at the University of Notre Dame. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He spent a year at the University of California at Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher before joining Notre Dame in 2001. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a member of ACM and ASEE, and an associate editor for the Elsevier Journal on Ad Hoc Networks. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2005.
Robert Heath
University of Texas at Austin
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~rheath/
Robert W. Heath, Jr. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and the Director of the Wireless Systems Innovations Laboratory. He received his B.S.E.E. (1996) and his M.S.E.E. (1997) degrees from the University of Virginia, and the Ph.D.E.E. (2002) degree from Stanford University. From 1998 to 2001, he was affiliated with Iospan Wireless Inc, San Jose, CA where he played a key role in the design and implementation of the physical and link layers of the first commercial MIMO-OFDM communication system. The proposed broadband wireless access system employed OFDM modulation, MIMO technology, and adaptive space-time modulation. In 2003 he founded MIMO Wireless Inc, a consulting company dedicated to the advancement of MIMO technology.
Syed Ali Jafar
UC Irvine
http://newport.eecs.uci.edu/~syed
Syed Ali Jafar received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India in 1997, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) , Pasadena USA in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA in 2003. His industry experience includes positions at Lucent Bell Labs , Qualcomm Inc. and Hughes Software Systems . He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA USA. His research interests include multiuser information theory and wireless communications. Dr. Jafar received the NSF CAREER award and the UC Irvine Engineering Faculty of the Year award in 2006. Dr. Jafar serves as the Editor for Wireless Communication Theory and CDMA for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Nihar Jindal
University of Minnesota
http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/nihar/
Nihar Jindal is an assistant professor in the ECE Department at the University of Minnesota. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001 and 2004. His research spans the fields of information theory and wireless communication, with specific interests in multiple-antenna/multi-user channels, dynamic resource allocation, and sensor and ad-hoc networks. He is a member of the IEEE and currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. Dr. Jindal was named a McKnight Land-Grant Professor in 2007 and was the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2008.
Dina Katabi
MIT
http://nms.csail.mit.edu/~dina/
Dina Katabi an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. She has joined the MIT faculty in March 2003, after completing her PhD at MIT. Dina's work focuses on wireless networks, network security, routing, and distributed resource management. She has award winning papers in ACM SIGCOMM and Usenix NSDI. Further, she has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship award in 2006, the NBX Career Development chair in 2006, and an NSF CAREER award in 2005. Her doctoral dissertation won an ACM Honorable Mention award and a Sprowls award for academic excellence.
Michael Neely
USC
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mjneely/
Michael J. Neely received B.S. degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1997. He was then awarded a 3 year Department of Defense NDSEG Fellowship for graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received an M.S. degree in EECS in 1999 and a Ph.D. in 2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California. His research interests are in the areas of stochastic network optimization and queueing theory, with applications to wireless communications, mobile ad-hoc networks, and switching systems. Michael is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2008.
Sanjay Shakkottai
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~shakkott
Sanjay Shakkottai received his Ph.D. from the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. He is with The University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2004. His research interests include scheduling, routing and congestion control algorithms for wireless and sensor networks, stochastic processes and queueing theory.
Steven Weber
Drexel University
http://www.ece.drexel.edu/faculty/sweber/
Steven Weber received his B.S. degree in 1996 from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in 1999 and 2003 respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University in 2003 where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests are centered around mathematical modeling of computer and communication networks, specifically streaming multimedia and ad hoc networks.
Aylin Yener
Penn State
http://labs.ee.psu.edu/faculty/yener/
Aylin Yener is an Associate Professor in the EE Department at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA. She received the B.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and in Physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from WINLAB, Rutgers University, NJ. She was a P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor at Lehigh University in 2001 and an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University from 2002-2006. She received the NSF CAREER award in 2003. She is member of IEEE, an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and a co-chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2008.