Wireless Systems Innovation Laboratory Group
Assistant Professor, Director of WSIL  Robert W. Heath Jr. received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a
member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. The WSIL is his research group. Prof. Heath worked on one of the first MIMO-OFDM modems at Iospan Wireless Inc. He is the president of MIMO Wireless Inc. He has consulted for a variety of companies including Bandspeed Inc., Beceem Communications Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, Leap Frog Wireless Inc., Motorola, and Rearden Inc. He is on the technical advisory board of Ruckus Wireless Inc. Prof. Heath likes to watch movies. |
Graduate Student  Ramya Bhagavatula is a graduate student at UT Austin. She completed her BS - EEE
in BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus in July 2005. She has interned in Siemens, in the
Building Management Systems Division, and at Petrofac International Ltd, where
she was a part of the team that designed the Cabling and Lighitng systems for
the 'Kashagan Gas, Sulphur and Oil Plant' in Kazakhstan. She is currently
working as a Research assistant for Dr. Heath on a project for Boeing to install
wireless access points in their airplanes. She likes to sketch potraits and
likes to collect miniature idols of Happy Buddha.
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Graduate Student  Raquel Flores received her BS in 2001 from New Mexico State University and her MS 2002 from The California Institute of Technology. She is currently a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include MIMO communications, specifically Multi-user MIMO communications for cellular use. Raquel has over 5 years of industry experience working for numerous technology companies ranging from Motorola to Intel. In her spare time, Raquel enjoys camping, spending time with family and watching football with her husband. |
Graduate Student  Chan-Byoung Chae is a Ph.D. student at The University of Texas, Austin. Prior to
joining UT, he was a research engineer at the Telecommunication R&D center,
Samsung Electronics from 2001 to 2005. He was a visiting research engineer at
WING Lab, Aalborg University in Denmark, in 2004. He participated in the IEEE
802.16 standardization where he made several contributions and filed a number of
related patents from 2004 to 2005. Mr. Chae was awarded the Bronze Prize in the
1996 Samsung Humantech International Paper Contest. His current research
interests include capacity analysis and interference management in wireless
mobile networks and all aspects of MIMO communications. Feel free to contact
him if you want to date. The scheduling algorithm he uses is not
first-come-first-served but the max(beauty X money).
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Graduate Student  Johann Chiang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with Prof. Robert Heath and working as a System Architect at Alereon, a leading ultrawideband startup company. He led an undergraduate team to win the asian championship, second to Israeli doctoral team in the global final, in the 2001 Texas Instruments DSP and Analog Design Challenge Contest. He was awarded the Outstanding Student from Chinese Institute of Engineering in 2001. His research interests include cognitive radio, wireless coexistence and convergence, and digital calibration of analog RF frontend. He likes history, buddhism, and golf. |
Graduate Student  Robert C. Daniels was born and raised in the rural town of Tunkhannock in
northeastern Pennsylvania. He received B.S. degrees (with distinction) in
electrical engineering and mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University.
After completing his M.S.E. at UT Austin in 2006, he is now a member of the Wireless Systems Innovation Laboratory
in pursuit of a Ph.D. in electrical
and computer engineering. Robert's
research interests include implementation issues in
wireless systems, large bandwidth wireless personal area networks (including
UWB and 60 GHz), and all areas of space-time wireless communications. He is
currently working on physical layer algorithm design
in 60 GHz WPANs as well as implementing the 802.11n physical layer in a multi-hop
2x2 MIMO OFDM prototype, Hydra. Robert views squirrel as
an underrated cuisine.
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Graduate Student  Insoo Hwang is a Ph. D student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and B.Sc degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea. His research interests include the general area of wireless communication, space-time processing and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. From 2005 to 2007, he was with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in Korea, where he investigated MIMO-related physical layer design for the upcoming fourth generation (4G) wireless system and involved standardization activities such as the 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) and WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum). During summer of 2004 he was with the Telecommunications R & D center, LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Anyang, Korea where he studied acquisition and synchronization in EDGE/GPRS. He usually keeps this desk when he is not with his beloved wife.
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Graduate Student  Takao Inoue received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Oregon State University. He is currently a Ph.D. student at The
University of Texas at Austin. He was previously with Fish Technologies
where he lead a startup company on hardware/software prototyping and
consulting for next generation wireless communication system. From 1998 to
1999, he was with Motorola where he worked on ITU G.992 standard and ADSL
software/firmware design. His research interests include adaptive signal
processing and MIMO communications. He is a member of IEEE CAS, COMSOC, and
MTTS. He likes to pick on his acoustic guitar when he is not reading papers. |
Graduate Student  Alvin Leung is a Masters student in the ECE department at The University of
Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The
University of Texas at Austin in May 2007. From 2005-2006 he interned with
Texas Instruments DLP division performing testing and product verification. Alvin fills whats left of his spare time with board games, piano, table tennis, and tennis. His idea of adventure is stepping outside the UT engineering block. |
Graduate Student  Caleb Lo is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. degree
in electrical engineering from The California Institute of Technology in 2003
and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from UT-Austin in 2005. His
research focuses on multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless systems; currently,
he is investigating precoding schemes for MIMO relay channels and their impact
on the channels' information-theoretic characteristics. In 2000-2001 he worked
on satellite module testing at Hughes Space and Communications and at Boeing
Satellite Systems as an intern. He worked on RF channel modeling at Rockwell
Collins in 2005. In his spare time he ponders questions such as why the Abwehr
was completely fooled by the Double Cross.
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Graduate Student  Steven Peters received B.S. degrees with high honors in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005, where he was president of the Delta Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu. He received the M.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. From 2003-2005, he worked at Environmental Systems Design, Inc., designing electrical distribution systems in Chicago sky scrapers. From 2005-2007 he was a graduate research assistant with the Applied Research Laboratories, where he worked on channel coding and transmit diversity in software-defined HF radios. His current research interests include MIMO relaying and multihop cellular networks. Although not that smart himself, Steve absorbed a smarter, more attractive twin in the womb.
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Graduate Student  Kien Trung Truong received his B.S. degree in Electronics & Telecommunications from Hanoi University of Technology (HUT) in 2002. After graduation, he worked for Department of Wireless Communications in Research Institute of Posts & Telecomms (RIPT), Hanoi, Vietnam for 4 years. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr. with a fellowship from the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF). His research interest is MIMO system prototyping. He likes playing soccer, reading books and listening to the music. |
Graduate Student  Rahul Vaze received his Bachelor in Engineering degree in Electronics Engineering from Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, India in 2002 and his Master in Telecommunication Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2004. From August 2004 to May 2006 he was with
Beceem Communications Pvt., Ltd., Bangalore as a Design Engineer where he was nvolved with design and impleentation of Physical Layer Algorithms for IEEE 802.16e standard. Currently he is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) and is advised by Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. His research interests include coded communication, space-time coding, information theory. He is a big fan of hindi movies and in his free time he likes to read about history, als enjoys playing badminton and loves to eat at any possible opportunity. |
Graduate Student  Ali Yazdan-Panah received his B.A.Sc degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2004 and his M.A.Sc degree from
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C, Canada in 2007 - both in electrical engineering. He joined WSIL in 2007 as a doctorial student
working on various subjects in wireless MIMO including MU-MIMO, MIMO-OFDM and channel estimation. Ali loves music, plays the classical
guitar and more recently the persian tar. He enjoys golfing, snowboarding and is a strong believer in globalization. He hopes one day to
outsource his entire research activities - homework included. |
Visiting Graduate Student  Leonel Soriano Equigua received his B.S. degree in Communications and
Electronics engineering from The University of Colima in 1997 in Colima,
Mexico, and his MSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from CICESE
Research Center in 2000 in Ensenada, B.C., Mexico. Since 2000 to 2005 he
worked as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical and Electric
Engineering in The University of Colima. He is pursuing a PhD degree in
CICESE Research Center at Ensenada, B.C., Mexico from 2005. From september
2007, Leonel is an exchange visitor in the ECE department at The University
of Texas at Austin, advised by Dr. Robert W. Heath. His areas of interest
are MIMO, OFDM and Multiuser MIMO. |
