Wireless Systems Innovation Laboratory Group
Graduate Student  Salam Akoum is a PhD student at the ECE department of the University of Texas at Austin.
She graduated with a B.E. in computer and Communications Engineering and a minor in mathematics (Honors)
from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 2006, and completed her M.S.E.E. at the University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, UT, in 2008. She joined the WNCG in Fall 2008, to work under the supervision of Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. in the WSIL group.
Outside the office, Salam enjoys reading and talking sports, she dreams of publishing a best-seller novel.
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Graduate Student  Omar Al Ayache is a masters student at the University of Texas at Austin. He finished his B.E. in Computer and Communication Engineering with
high distinction from the American University of Beirut (AUB, class of 2008). His research interests include network information theory and
wireless communication. Outside the office, he has a passion for flying and food.
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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  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  Khursheed Hassan did his B.S. from N.E.D. University of Engineering in Karachi, Pakistan and M.S. from Texas A&M University College Station, Tx. His interests include logic design, low power SoC architectures, modem implementation and 60 GHz radio. In his spare time, he does non-profit work and enjoys reading anthropology, genomics and history. |
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  Minchan Lee is a Ph.D. student at the ECE department of the University of Texas at Austin.
He graduated with a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2002, and worked at two IT companies for 3 years.
He entered the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, and obtained his M.S.E. degree in 2008 supervised by Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr..
He joined the WSIL in Fall 2008, to pursue the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. in the group.
His research interests include MIMO multicast channel system and MIMO
multi-eavesdrop (MIMOME) system.
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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  Behrang Nosrat-Makouei received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) in 2004 and his M.A.Sc. from Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, Canada) in 2008 both at Electrical Engineering.
He is currently a member of the WSIL group under the co-supervision of Dr. Heath and Dr. Andrews where he's working towards his Ph.D. degree. His research interests extend from Medical Image Processing to DSP, MIMO-OFDM(A) systems and relay networks. He enjoys solving major international crisis although he's not getting paid for it.
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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. |
Graduate Student  Yongseok Yoo received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea. He worked for three years at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the flagship research center of Samsung Electronics. He is currently a Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include biomedical signal processing and computational neuroscience.
He is a Fulbright scholar. U.S. Department of State supports his graduate study and the program also provides him with various cultural opportunities.
He likes to share ideas and cultures with other Fulbrighters from all over the world.
He treasures visits from and to them in the spirit of "Mi casa es su casa."
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