About Prof. Andrews

Jeffrey G. Andrews is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Andrews is a Fellow of the IEEE and co-author of the Prentice-Hall books Fundamentals of WiMAX (2007) and Fundamentals of LTE (2010). He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2007, and work he has co-authored has received the following Best Paper awards: IEEE Globecom (2006 and 2009), Asilomar (2008), the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award (2010), and the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award (2011).

Outside of academia, Dr. Andrews developed Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems at Qualcomm from 1995-97, has consulted for the WiMAX Forum, Clearwire, Sprint, Intel, Verizon, Microsoft, Palm, Apple, and NASA, and serves on the Technical Advisory Boards of Fastback Networks and Accelera. His degrees include a B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College in 1995, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2002.