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Prof. Brian L. Evans Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Eng. Office hours: By appointment in the summer E-mail: bevans@ece.utexas.edu

Current Research Interference Mitigation Multi-Antenna Communications Powerline Communications Smart Phone Video Acquisition Multicore Computing Past Research DSL Transceivers Image Hashing Image/Video Display Wireless Resource Allocation Research Group Alumni and Students Publications & Talks

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My research and teaching interests are in embedded real-time digital signal processing (DSP) for communication systems and image processing systems. For my research, I was elevated to IEEE Fellow "for contributions to multicarrier communications and image display" (news release). For my teaching, I received the University's Texas Exes Teaching Award sponsored by the alumni association. I currently hold the Engineering Foundation Professorship.

My research group develops signal processing theory and algorithms with implementation constraints in mind, and translates algorithms into design methods and embedded prototypes. We develop and deploy full system testbeds. Our current projects include wireless interference mitigation, powerline communications, smart phone video acquisition, system-level electronic design automation and cloud radio access networks. My research group is the Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory, which is part of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and Center for Perceptual Systems.

• Recent dissertation: wireless interference in multiple antennas
• Recent journal papers: co-channel interference - powerline communications - multicore DSPs
• Recent research presentation: powerline communications - mitigating interference in OFDM receivers
• Recent Matlab software: rolling shutter correction - video stabilization - interference modeling
• Recent C++ software: distributed high-performance signal processing
• Recent dataset: underwater acoustic communication (10 GB)

Here are recent awards given to current students in the research group:

• The Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Application. Our paper was entitled "Cyclic Spectral Analysis of Power Line Noise in the 3-200 kHz Band". Co-authors are PhD students Mr. Karl F. Nieman, Ms. Jing Lin, and Mr. Marcel Nassar, and Freescale engineer Dr. Khurram Waheed.
• Top 10% Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop. Our paper was entitled "Probabilistic 3D Motion Estimation for Rolling Shutter Video Rectification from Visual and Inertial Measurements". Co-author was Mr. Chao Jia.

Here are recent awards given to alumni of our research group:

• Dr. Gregory E. Allen (PhD ECE UT Austin 2011) won the 2011 UT Austin Applied Research Laboratories Excellence Award "for outstanding research recognized by his fellow employees". Dr. Allen has been working at the UT Austin Applied Research Laboratories on a full-time basis since 1991. He completed his MS ECE and PhD ECE degrees on a part-time basis.
• Dr. Niranjan Damera-Venkata (PhD ECE UT Austin 2000) won the 2011 ACM SIGWEB Best Paper Award. He is Principal Scientist at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California.
• Dr. Kyungtae Han (PhD ECE UT Austin 2006) won the 2011 Intel Achievement Award "For Developing the Converged Platform Power Management Framework". This is highest technical award at Intel. Dr. Han officially received the award at a ceremony in San Francisco on May 5th from Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini.
• Prof. Vishal Monga (PhD ECE UT Austin 2005) received a Top 10% Paper Award at the 2009 and 2011 IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshops. He is an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University.

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Additional information:

• Research Group Links: library - meetings - overview - sponsors - students
• Seminars: Perceptual Systems - Wireless Networking and Communications
• Graduate Study: communications - digital signal processing - suggestions
• IEEE: Signal Processing Society Design/Implementation Technical Committee

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