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WNCG Welcomes Prof. Joydeep Ghosh to its Faculty

Jan. 22, 2012
WNCG welcomes its newest faculty member, Joydeep Ghosh, Ph.D. Dr. Gosh joined the UT-Austin faculty in 1988 after being educated at IIT Kanpur, (B. Tech '83) and The University of Southern California (Ph.D). He is the founder-director of IDEAL (Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab) and a Fellow of the IEEE. His research interests lie primarily in intelligent data analysis, data mining and web mining, adaptive multi-learner systems, and their applications to a wide variety of complex engineering and AI problems. Dr.

Crown Castle Joins WNCG as New Affiliate

Jan. 22, 2012
Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE:CCI), one of the country's largest independent owners and operators of shared wireless infrastructure, recently became an Industrial Affiliate of the WNCG at The University of Texas at Austin. Crown Castle owns, operates, and leases towers and other infrastructure for wireless communications. The company offers significant wireless communications coverage to 92 of the top 100 US markets and to substantially all of the Australian population.

Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr. Takes Reins as WNCG Director

Jan. 22, 2012
As of Jan. 15, Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr. became the fourth Director of the WNCG. Sanjay Shakkottai, who became Associate Director a year ago, will continue in his role as the Associate Director. Prof. Heath has been with UT Austin since January 2002 and was recently promoted from Associate Professor to Professor, official as of September 2012. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D from Stanford University. Prof. Heath brings his experience in working in industry, government, and military funded projects to the leadership of WNCG. Prof.

WNCG Promotions

Jan. 22, 2012
Three WNCG faculty were promoted from Associate Professor to Professor in December 2011 (new title effective Sept. 2012). Robert Heath, Jeffrey Andrews, and Sanjay Shakkottai joined UT Austin in 2002. They were the only three faculty in ECE promoted to Professor this year, and all were 'early' promotions. Constantine Caramanis, on the faculty since 2006, received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor.

Multi-Antenna Interference Modeling and Mitigation

Jan. 22, 2012
by Aditya Chopra The demand for mobile Internet data is on track to increase by 1000x over this decade. The most significant gain in communication capacity will continue to come through increased frequency reuse. Increased frequency reuse will primarily be realized by using smaller picocells and femtocells, which will lead to increased interference on the antennas deployed on these small-cell basestations and mobile receivers. We have developed a unified framework for modeling multi-antenna interference in various network topologies.

WNCG Graduate Joins National Cheng Kung University as an Assistant Professor

Jan. 22, 2012
WNCG graduate Dr. Chun Hung Liu has joined the faculty of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan as an Assistant Professor. NCKU is one of Taiwan's top universities in most rankings and in size, and its Electrical Engineering department was recently rated in the top 10 in the world by one international ranking. Dr. Liu joins an ever-growing club of WNCG alumni holding faculty positions in top US, Asian, and European universities. Dr. Liu's dissertation, entitled 'Distributed Transmission Strategies in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Transmission-Capacity Perspective,' was supervised by Prof.

Securing Civil GPS for the Next Decade

Jan. 22, 2012
by kyle wesson Over the past decade, GPS security researchers have repeatedly warned that civil GPS is insecure and that users trust its signals at their peril. Disruption created by intentional generation of fake GPS signals, a type of attack against GPS receivers known as a spoofing attack, could have serious economic consequences. The deepening dependence of the civil infrastructure on GPS---especially for timing and synchronization---and the potential for financial gain or high-profile mischief make civil GPS spoofing a gathering threat.

Robert W. Heath, Jr. Delivers Plenary at the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing

Jan. 22, 2012
On December 15, 2011, Professor Heath delivered a Plenary talk at the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing. The CAMSAP workshop is dedicated to theoretical topics such as convex optimization and relaxation, computational linear algebra, distributed algorithms, and sparse signal processing as well as their applications to array processing, communication systems, sensor networks, biomedicine, computational imaging, and emerging topics. Prof. Heath's talk was entitled The Limited Feedback Revolution in Wireless Communication.

Collaboration between CERC and WNCG: Profs. Caramanis and Orshansky receive an NSF Grant to Develop a New Generation of Techniques for Analog Integrated Circuit Synthesis

Dec. 15, 2011
Professors Constantine Caramanis from WNCG (The Wireless Networking and Communications Group) and Michael Orshansky from CERC ICSG (Computer Engineering Research Center Integrated Circuits and Systems Group) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into new techniques for robust automated design of analog integrated circuit design.

Profs. Bovik and Ghosh receive $500,000 NSF grant to develop intelligent video quality agents for monitoring and controlling perceptual quality of videos over wireless

Dec. 15, 2011
WNCG Professor Al Bovik in collaboration with Prof. Joydeep Ghosh have received a grant entitled Intelligent Autonomous Video Quality Agents, from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into the theory and design of automatic that will be able to learn to identify and assess distortions on computer networks.