| Education | Research Projects | Awards and Fellowships | Work Experience | Technical Skills | Publications |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
· Non-convex, discrete, and stochastic optimization in wired and wireless communications
· Statistical signal processing in wired and wireless communications
· Design and implementation of embedded real-time communication systems
EDUCATION
The University of Texas
at Austin
· PhD-Electrical Engineering, Communications, Networks and Systems area (expected Dec. 2006)
o PhD Dissertation: “Optimal Resource Allocation in OFDMA Systems” in preparation
o Courses: Channel Coding; Numerical Analysis: Linear Algebra; Numerical Analysis: Interp., Approx., Quad., Diff. Eqns.; Advanced Wireless: Space-Time Communications; Nonlinear Programming
o Advisor: Prof. Brian L. Evans (bevans@ece.utexas.edu)
· MS-Electrical Engineering, Communications, Networks and Systems area (May 2004)
o GPA = 4.0/4.0
o Courses: Wireless Communications, Digital Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Wireless: Modulation and Multiple Access, Probability and Random Processes, Hardware-Software Codesign, Algorithms, Real Analysis, Engineering Programming Languages, Optimization in Engineering Systems, Advanced Signal Processing, Information Theory
o Advisor: Prof. Brian L. Evans (bevans@ece.utexas.edu)
University of the Philippines, Diliman
· Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering (April 2000)
· GPA = 1.393/1.0 (Magna Cum Laude)
· Undergraduate Project: Implementation and Analysis of an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Transceiver Using TI TMS320C6x DSPs
· Optimal resource allocation in OFDMA Systems (IEEE 802.16e, 3GPP-LTE)
· Channel estimation and prediction for OFDM/MIMO Systems (IEEE 802.16e, 3GPP-LTE)
· IEEE 802.16-2004 OFDM physical layer design and simulation in LabVIEW
· Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium Graduate Fellow, 2003-2004
· Overall Best Male Employee of the Year 2001, DOST-ASTI
· 3rd Place in the College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Competition 2000.
· 4th place out of 3629 examinees in the Philippine Electronics and Communications Engineering Professional Licensure Examinations
· Wireless & Mobile Systems Group-Advanced Technology, Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, TX
o Graduate Research Intern (May – August 2005; May-August 2006) - Filed 4 patents and made 2 standards contribution over two internships on algorithms for OFDMA and SC-FDMA systems
· LabVIEW Real-time and Embedded Group, National Instruments, Austin, TX
o Graduate Research Intern (May - August 2003; May – August 2004) - Developed the SDF structure for the LabVIEW Graphical Development Environment.
· Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin
o Graduate Research Assistant (Jan 2003 - present) and Laboratory Manager (Jan 2004 - present)
· Dept. of ECE, The University of Texas at Austin
o Teaching Assistant (Aug. –Dec. 2002), EE 345S – Real-Time DSP Laboratory
· Dept. of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI)
o Product Development Group Manager (April 2002 – July 2002)
o Bluetooth Project Team Leader (Nov. 2000 – March 2002)
o DSP Team Leader, Digital Microwave Radio Project (June 2000 - November 2000)
· High-level languages: C, C++, Java
· Simulation environments: MATLAB, SPW, Ptolemy II, LabVIEW (G)
· Computer Aided Software Engineering tools: ObjectGEODE, Telelogic Tau
Journals
[1] I. C. Wong, K. Oteri, and W. McCoy, "Optimal Resource Allocation in Uplink SC-FDMA Systems," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, submitted Dec. 6, 2006.
[2] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “Optimal Resource Allocation in OFDMA Systems with Imperfect Channel Knowledge,” IEEE Trans. on Communications, submitted Oct. 1, 2006.
[3] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “Optimal OFDMA Resource Allocation with Linear Complexity to Maximize Ergodic Rates,” IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, submitted Sept. 17, 2006, and resubmitted February 3, 2007.
[4] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “High Resolution Channel Prediction for OFDM Systems,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, submitted Mar. 29, 2006, and resubmitted Oct. 19, 2006.
[5] I. C. Wong, M. Caccam, C. Dideles, and B. Galang, “Bluetooth Host-side Protocol Stack Development using Formal Description Techniques,” Philippine Engineering Journal, Vol XXII, No.1, June 2001.
[6] I. C. Wong, A. Manlapat, and C. Santos; “Implementation of a Prototype ADSL System using TI TMS320C6X,” Philippine Engineering Journal, Vol XXI, No.1, pp 12-27, June 2000.
[1] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “Optimal OFDMA Subcarrier, Rate, and Power Allocation for Ergodic Rates Maximization with Imperfect Channel Knowledge,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., April 16-20, 2007, Honululu, HI USA, accepted for publication.
[2] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “Optimal OFDMA Resource Allocation with Linear Complexity to Maximize Ergodic Weighted Sum Capacity,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., April 16-20, 2007, Honululu, HI USA, submitted, accepted for publication.
[3] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Correlations in MIMO Wireless Channel Prediction,” Proc. IEEE Global Telecom. Conf., Nov. 2006, San Francisco, CA.
[4] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “Low-Complexity Adaptive High-Resolution Channel Prediction for OFDM Systems,” Proc. IEEE Global Telecom. Conf., Nov. 2006, San Francisco, CA.
[5] I. C. Wong and B. L. Evans, “Joint Channel Estimation and Prediction for OFDM Systems,” Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2005.
[6] I. C. Wong, A. Forenza, R. W. Heath, and B. L. Evans, “Performance Bounds in OFDM Channel Prediction,” in Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1461-1465, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2005.
[7] I. C. Wong, A. Forenza, R. W. Heath, and B. L. Evans, “Long Range Channel Prediction for Adaptive OFDM Systems,” in Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 1, Pacific Grove, CA USA, Nov. 7-10, 2004, pp. 732-736.
[8] I. C. Wong, Z. Shen, J. G. Andrews, and B. L. Evans, “A Low Complexity Algorithm for Proportional Resource Allocation in OFDMA Systems,” Proc. IEEE Int. Work. Signal Proc. Systems, pp 1-6, Oct. 13-15, 2004, Austin, Texas.
[9] M. Ding, B. L. Evans, and I. C. Wong, “Effect of channel estimation error on bit rate performance of time domain equalizers,” Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Vol. 2, pp. 2056-2060, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 7-10, 2004.
[10] I. C. Wong, B. Galang, C. Dideles, and M. Caccam, “Development of a Bluetooth™ Host-side Protocol Stack Using Formal Description Techniques (FDT),” Proc. Philippine ECE Conference, November 2001, Manila, Phils.
[11] C. Santos, A. Manlapat, N. Toledo, I. C. Wong, J. Ifurung, and D. Sabido; "Design and Implemenation of a PI/4-DQPSK Modem for Broadband Wireless Access," Proc. ASEAN Sci. and Tech. Conf., Sept. 2001, Brunei Darussalam.
[12] N. Toledo, C. Santos, A. Manlapat, B. Galang, A. Chio, I. C. Wong, R. Guevara, and D. Sabido, “Design and Characterization of a Low Cost ISM Band Subcarrier Multiplexed Broadband Digital Microwave Link,” IEEE-Microwave Theory and Techniques, International Microwave Symposium, pp. 961-964, May 2001, Phoenix AZ, USA.
[13] I. C. Wong, A. Manlapat, and C. Santos, “Implementation of a prototype ADSL System Using TI TMS320C6x DSP,” Proc. Philippine ECE Conference, December 2000, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. (presenter)
Standards Contributions
[1] Freescale Semiconductor, “Performance evaluation of uplink interference avoidance techniques Rev. 2,” R1-062417, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 Meeting #46, Tallinn, Estonia, August 28 – September 1, 2006.
[2] Freescale Semiconductor, “Performance evaluation of uplink interference avoidance techniques,” R1-061928, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 LTE-Ad Hoc, Cannes, France, June 27–30, 2006.
PATENTS
[1] I. C. Wong, K. Oteri, and W. McCoy,
"Resource Allocation In Multi Data Stream Communication Link," filed through
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Oct. 23, 2006
SOFTWARE RELEASES
[1] A. Olson, D. Wang, I. C. Wong, and B. L. Evans, “ADSL2 Simulator 1.1,” May 2006. [Available online: www.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/projects/adsl/simulator/index.html]
[2] I. C. Wong, K. Hang, A. Doyle, and B. L. Evans, “IEEE 802.16a Simulation,” Nov. 2004. [Available online: www.ece.utexas.edu/~iwong/IEEE80216aSim.htm]
[3] I. C. Wong, Z. Shen, R. Mullenix, and B. L. Evans, “Multiuser OFDM Resource Allocation Simulation,” . [Available online: www.ece.utexas.edu/~iwong/OFDMAResAllocSim.htm]