About Prof. Andrews

Jeffrey G. Andrews received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), UT's wireless research center with over 100 researchers and 10 industrial affiliates. Outside of academia, he developed Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems as an engineer at Qualcomm from 1995 to 1997, and has consulted for the WiMAX Forum, Microsoft, Palm, Ricoh, ADC, and NASA.

Dr. Andrews is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and served as an editor for the IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications from 2004-8. He is co-author of the Prentice-Hall book, Fundamentals of WiMAX. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2007 and is the Principal Investigator of an eight university team of 13 faculty in DARPA's Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks program.