Professor Robert W. Heath Jr.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E.
David and Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow
Associate Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group
Office Hours for Fall 2008:
Tuesday 9am-noon.
Introduction:
I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. My research expertise is at the intersection of wireless communication, signal processing, applied math, and communication theory. I have an active research program in all aspects of MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication focusing on next generation cellular technologies, limited feedback, multiuser MIMO, multihop MIMO, antenna design, and MIMO ad hoc networks. In addition I am pursing a variety of problems in related areas like vector quantization, joint source-channel coding, and ad hoc networking. I am part of the DARPA ITMANET team developing a Non-Equillibrium Information Theory. If you would like to work with me please click the students link for more details.
I teach courses at both the undergraduate and the graduate level on topics such as wireless communication, digital signal processing, statistical signal processing, and multi-antenna communication methods.
I am a guest editor for the EURASIP Special Issue on Multiuser MIMO Transmission with Limited Feedback, Cooperation, and Coordination: Submission Deadline December 1, 2008 I was the lead editor for a JSAC special issue: Exploiting Limited Feedback in Tomorrow's Wireless Communication Networks, which should appear in October. I am also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee. I am co-organizing the 2009 Signal Processing for Wireless Communications conference in Perugia, Italy (submission deadline is January 30, 2009). Previously I was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communication and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology .
I enjoy participating and interacting with industry and government through sponsored research, standards participation, and consulting. Please contact me for more details.
Update: I obtained a general Amateur Radio license. My call sign is KE5NCG.
