Behrouz Farhang-Bouroujeny - Director, Wireless Communications Lab

Dr. Farhang is a professor and associate chair in the ECE department at the University of Utah. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tehran University, Iran, in 1976, the M.E. degree from University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, UK, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College, University of London, UK, in 1981. From 1981 to 1989 he was with Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran. From 1989 to 2000 he was with National University of Singapore. Since August 2000, he has been with the University of Utah. He is an expert in the general area of signal processing. His current research interests are in adaptive filters, multicarrier communications, detection techniques for space-time coded systems, and signal processing applications to optical devices. In the past, he has worked and has made significant contribution to areas of adaptive filters theory, acoustic echo cancellation, magnetic/optical recoding, and digital subscriber line technologies. He is the author of the book "Adaptive Filters: theory and applications", John Wiley & Sons, 1998. He currently serves as associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

Peiman Amini - PhD student

Peiman Amini received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degree with highest honors from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran in 2002 and 2004. He was a founding member of the IUT robotic center, where he served as a team leader and active team member for three years. The team ranked third in the 2003 Italian Robot World Cup, as well as in the 2002 and 2003 German Open. He is working toward his Ph.D. degree at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His research interests include cognitive radios, Multicarrier communication, MIMO/CDMA detection, and mobile robots. He is the team leader of university of utah smart radio challenge team. The group works on implementation of a cognitive radio wirless network for first responder in the disaster scenario.

Salam Akoum - Masters of Science Student

Salam joined the Wireless Communications Lab at the University of Utah in Fall 2006. She graduated with a bachelor's in Computer and Communications Engineering (CCE) and a minor in mathematics from the American University of Beirut (AUB, class of 2006) with distinction (Honors). She is currently working towards a MS degree in Electrical Engineering (expected May 2008). Her research interests include investigating efficient implementations of detection methods for MIMO/CDMA communications systems with emphasis on the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. She is part of the smart radio challenge '07 group working on the physical layer implementation of a cognitive radio modem.

Harsha Rao - PhD Student

Harsha Rao received the B.E degree in electronics and communication engineering with highest honors from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2003. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Design Engineer at ABB, Bangalore, India. His current research is in acoustic signal processing and adaptive filtering. His dissertation topic focusses on the twin problems of acoustic crosstalk cancellation and stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation to achieve spatilization using a pair-wise loudspeaker paradigm. As a member of the Wireless Communication group, he has been working on the 2007 Smart Radio Challenge.

Xuehong Mao - PhD student

Xuehong Mao received the B.S. degree in communication engineering from Hefei University of Technology in 2002, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2005. She worked on Synchronization and channel estimation of OFDM systems at the PCNSS Lab at USTC for three years. In 2005, she joined the Wireless Communication Lab at University of Utah and she is working towards her Ph.D. degree. Her current research is Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm for MIMO detection. She is a team member of the smart radio challenge '07 group, working on physical layer simulation.

Scott Talbot - PhD Student

Scott Talbot received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in May 2002. Since that time he has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah as part of the Wireless Communications Lab with Dr. Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny serving as his advisor. His research efforts have been in the area of signal processing in wireless communications, in particular with OFDM synchronization. Since January 2001, Scott has also been working as a communication and signal processing engineer at L-3 Communications in Salt Lake City.