CWC - Key Persons


Alexander Vardy

Job Titles:
  • Professor Vardy Has Numerous Publications in Refereed Professional Journals and Conference
Professor Vardy has numerous publications in refereed professional journals and conference…

Alon Orlitsky

Job Titles:
  • Professor
My research concerns the intersection between information theory, machine learning, and…

Artur Borycki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Senior Director Innovation and Advance Development, Teradata
  • Senior Director of Innovations
Artur is a Senior Director of Innovations and Advance Development at Teradata, leading exploration, incubation, and advance development in space of technology and product innovations. Artur is working with customers, academia and partners on leading innovations in areas like: Industrial IoT, Smart Nation, Smart City, Precision Medicine and Artificial Intelligence.

Bhaskar D. Rao

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  • Professor
Bhaskar D. Rao received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. Since 1983, he has been with the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He is the holder of the Ericsson endowed chair in Wireless Access Networks and was the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications (2008-2011). Prof. Rao's interests are in the areas of digital signal processing, estimation theory, and optimization theory, with applications to digital communications, speech signal processing, and biomedical signal processing. Prof. Rao was elected fellow of IEEE in 2000 for his contributions to the statistical analysis of subspace algorithms for harmonic retrieval. His work has received several paper awards; 2013 best paper award at the Fall 2013, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference for the paper "Multicell Random Beamforming with CDF-based Scheduling: Exact Rate and Scaling Laws," by Yichao Huang and Bhaskar D Rao, 2012 Signal Processing Society (SPS) best paper award for the paper "An Empirical Bayesian Strategy for Solving the Simultaneous Sparse Approximation Problem," by David P. Wipf and Bhaskar D. Rao published in IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Volume: 55, No. 7, July 2007, 2008 Stephen O. Rice Prize paper award in the field of communication systems for the paper "Network Duality for Multiuser MIMO Beamforming Networks and Applications," by B. Song, R. L. Cruz and B. D. Rao that appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, No. 3, March 2007, pp. 618 630. (http://www.comsoc.org/ awards/rice.html), among others. Prof. Rao is also the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award.

Bill Lin

Job Titles:
  • My Research Addresses the Computational Needs and Energy Constrains of Next Generation Wireless
  • Professor
My research addresses the computational needs and energy constrains of next generation wireless… Bill Lin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985, 1988, and 1991, respectively. Since 1997, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is affiliated with the Center for Wireless Communications. His current research interests are primarily in the areas of novel software-hardware architectures for wireless multimedia, reconfigurable, and embedded systems, and electronic system design automation for designing them. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSD, he was heading a research team at IMEC, Belgium, working on various aspects of advanced system design automation and implementation techniques for embedded systems. He has previously held summer positions at Hewlett Packard, Hughes Electronics, and Western Digital. His research has led to over 70 journal and conference publications. He has received a number of publication awards, including a best paper award at DAC'87, distinguished paper citations at VLSI'89 and ICCAD'90, a best paper nomination at DAC'94, and the 1995 best journal paper award in the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He has served on panels and given invited presentations at major conferences, including ICCAD, EDTC, and the CODES/CASHE workshop. He has served on program committees of many international conferences, including the DAC and EDTC conferences.

Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Senior Vice President and Head of Standards and Mobility Innovation Team
  • SVP and Head of the Standards and Mobility
  • SVP and Head of the Standards and Mobility Innovation Team at Samsung
Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang is SVP and head of the Standards and Mobility Innovation Team at Samsung Research America, where he leads research, prototyping, and standards for 5G/6G and future multimedia networks. He is also currently serving as the Chairman of the Board with FiRa Consortium, which is dedicated to the development of seamless user experiences using the secured fine ranging and positioning capabilities of interoperable UWB technologies. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Vice Chairman of the 3GPP RAN1 working group and led development of LTE and LTE-Advanced technologies such as 3D channel modeling, UL-MIMO, CoMP, Carrier Aggregation for TD-LTE. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE.

Debi Gianni

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  • Executive Assistant / Center for Wireless Communications / University of California

Dimitri Arges

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  • Staff Member
Dimitri Arges is a results-driven, innovative professional with over 25 years experience in product…

Dinesh Bharadia

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Dinesh Bharadia is faculty in ECE at University of California San Diego. Dinesh Bharadia received his PhD from Stanford University in 2016 and was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. Specifically, in his dissertation, he built prototype of a radio, that invalidated a long held assumption in wireless is that radios cannot transmit and receive at the same time on the same frequency. In recognition of his work, Dinesh was named to Forbes 30 under 30 for the science category worldwide list. Dinesh was also named a Marconi Young Scholar for outstanding wireless research and awarded the Michael Dukakis Leadership award. He was also named as one of the top 35 Innovators under 35 in the world by MIT Technology Review in 2016. Dinesh is also recipient of the Sarah and Thomas Kailath Stanford Graduate Fellowship. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Principal Scientist for Kumu Networks, where he worked to commercialize his research on full-duplex radios, building a product that underwent successful field trials at Tier 1 network providers worldwide like Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom. This product is currently under deployment. His research interests include advancing the theory and design of modern wireless communication systems, wireless imaging, sensor networks and data-center networks. Dinesh received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2010, where he received the gold medal for graduating at the top of his class. His research has been published at top conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom and has been cited over 2000 times. He would offer core courses in wireless communication, IoT networks, and networked systems building.

Donald Kimball

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Board Member, Qorvo

Dr. Andrey Kobyakov

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Senior Research Scientist
  • Research Director, Corning
Dr. Andrey Kobyakov joined Corning in 2001 as Senior Research Scientist at the Photonics Research…

Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Director of Strategic Applications, GlobalFoundries
  • Senior Director of Strategic Applications
  • Senior Director of Strategic Applications Within the Mobility
Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay is the Senior Director of Strategic Applications within the Mobility…

Dr. Jyoti Mishra

Dr. Jyoti Mishra is trained in the computational, cognitive and translational neurosciences. She is the founder of the Neural Engineering & Translation Labs at UC San Diego (neatlabs.ucsd.edu). Her lab innovated neurotechnologies for scalable brain health mapping, monitoring and precision therapeutics in humans. Dr. Mishra's interdisciplinary research interests are at the intersection of neuroscience and digital technologies as they inform personalized mental health.

Dr. Ramesh Rao

Job Titles:
  • Member at UC San Diego
  • Professor, ECE, UC San Diego, Director, Qualcomm Institute
Dr. Ramesh Rao has been a faculty member at UC San Diego since 1984 and the Director of the…

Drew Hall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Dr. Hall received a B.S. degree in computer engineering with honors from the University of Nevada,…

Frankin Antonion Hall

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Gabriel Rebeiz

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for microwave applications, design of radio frequency/…

Gilbert F. Amelio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Chairman of the Board of RF Check Incorporated
  • Chairman of the Board, Safe Dynamics Inc.
  • IEEE Fellow
During his four decades of technology and business leadership, Gil has achieved a number of… Gil is a former director and chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association and has served on the Board of Governors of the Electronics Industries Association and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Business and Higher Education Forum. From 1996 to 2009, Dr. Amelio served as an advisor to the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor and to the Prime Minister of the country. His current and past directorships also include 18 years on the Board of AT&T Inc. [Chairman of HR (Compensation) Committee], InterDigital, Inc. [Chairman of Compensation Committee], Galectin Therapeutics Inc., Chiron Corp., Sematech, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board (one term as chairman) and the American Film Institute. Gil is an IEEE Fellow and has been awarded 17 patents. Gil has also been the recipient of numerous awards including the Florida International University (FIU) Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Ga. Tech Business Achievement Award, the National Management Association's Silver Knight of Management Award, the Masara Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award from the country of Japan and the Albert Einstein Award from the country of Israel. Gil is an author or co-author of three books: An American Imperative (1993), Profit from Experience (1995), On the Firing Line (1998). The latter two were business book best sellers. Profit from Experience continues to be available from Amazon (5-Star rating).

Hanh-Phuc Le

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
The integrated Power Electronics and Energy-Efficient Systems, led by Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le, focuses…

Ian Galton

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kamal Sahota

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Vice President of Engineering
  • Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, Lea
  • VP, Engineering, RF Integrated Circuit Design Team, Qualcomm
Kamal Sahota is Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, leading the Radio Frequency Integrated circuit design team for 3G, 4G and 5G cellular radio transceivers used in modern smart phones.He received his BSEE (Sum Cum Laude) and ME in electrical and computer engineering from UCSD in 1993 and 1999 respectively with a minor in art history. He joined Qualcomm in 1993 as an analog integrated circuit designer working on the first CDMA digital cell phones.Over his career he has contributed to the evolution of the cellular phone radio subsystem from 1G to 5G. He holds over 290 patents in the field of RF analog circuits and systems for wireless communications.

Kasey Chen

Job Titles:
  • Designer
  • Assistant - Public Relations and Events
Kasey Chen is a designer that aims to intersect artistic values with industry knowledge to provide the best experiences possible. She has previously worked as a UX Designer for AI startup TraitsAI as well as on Sony's Human Factor team in collaboration with the Design Lab. Currently, she is a Lead Visual Designer for YourYear, an interactive student planner and President of Triton XR, a campus virtual reality org.

Koon Hoo Teo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Strategy Project Leader and Senior Principal Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs ( MERL )
Koon Hoo Teo received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 1985 and 1990, respectively. He was with Nortel Networks for about 15 years where his main R&D areas were in 3G and 4G Wireless Communication Systems and Mesh Networks. Currently he is with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA, USA. He is one of the main authors of ANSI C63.17 for the unlicensed bands and a contributor to WiMAX and LTE standards in the PHY and MAC layers. He is also the author and co-author of 3 chapter books, over 150 reviewed papers and nearly 200 granted patents and patent applications which spans a range of areas that include Nano and Surface Physics, Semiconductor Power Devices, Metamaterial, Thermal Physics, Superconductor, Electric Motor Technology, Optical and Wireless Communications, Cognitive Radio, Game Theory, RF and Power Electronics, Battery Charging and Wireless Power Transfer.

Laurence B. Milstein

Job Titles:
  • My Research Has Concentrations of Effort in the Areas of Souce Coding / Data Compression, Forward
  • Professor
Laurence B. Milstein received the B.E.E. degree from the City College of New York, New York, NY, in 1964, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, in 1966 and 1968, respectively. Dr. Milstein was an Associate Editor for Communication Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, an Associate Editor for Book Reviews for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and an Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, and is currently a Senior Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He was the Vice President for Technical Affairs in 1990 and 1991 of the IEEE Communications Society, and has been a member of the Board of Governors of both the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Information Theory Society. He is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. My research has concentrations of effort in the areas of souce coding/data compression, forward…

Malcolm Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Strategic Planning Manager, 5G Wireless, Keysight Technologies
Malcolm Robertson joined Keysight Technologies (then Agilent Technologies) in 2000, working on the development and production of SONET/SDH and OTN test equipment, as well as network test platforms. After managing the development of RF and Microwave Power Measurement products, he returned to wireless technologies in Bluetooth, WLAN, and WiMAX test solutions, followed by work in developing cellular non-signaling test solutions for high volume 4G smartphones. More recently, Malcolm held positions in Strategic Planning for Keysight's Modular and 5G initiatives, with a particular focus on the challenges of over-the-air measurement at millimeter-wave frequencies. Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Physics and Electronics and a Ph.D. from the University of St.Andrews in Scotland. His Ph.D. and subsequent postgraduate work in the mmWave and Terahertz group focused on novel mmW sources, quasi-optical techniques, imaging, and detection. His work resulted in various collaborations including radio astronomy, IFF systems, and fusion plasma diagnostics.

Mark Pierpoint

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Senior Vice President and President, Ixia Solutions Group Keysight Technologies, Inc.
  • Senior Vice President of Keysight Technologies
Mark Pierpoint is senior vice president of Keysight Technologies, and president of Keysight's Ixia Solutions Group which provides network test and visibility solutions for validating, optimizing and securing networks. Before being named ISG President, Pierpoint served as vice president and general manager of the Internet Infrastructure business within the Communications Solutions Group at Keysight Technologies, where he was responsible for developing and delivering solutions across the commercial communications network from network access points to data centers and the cloud. Prior to this, he led Keysight's move in modular products, growing the business to over $150 million in FY15. Pierpoint joined the company in 1987, when it was still part of Hewlett-Packard. He has held multiple management positions in R&D, sales, marketing, and operations across various businesses within Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies in both the United States and Europe. Pierpoint holds a Ph.D. in Microwave Engineering, and a B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds in the UK.

Massimo Franceschetti

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Professor Massimo Franceschetti's research interests are in Physical Models, Algorithms, and…

Melissa Wicklund

Job Titles:
  • Marketing & Design
  • Strategic and Visionary Creative Director
Melissa Wicklund is a strategic and visionary creative director with over 14 years of strong design…

Nokia Bell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Labs, Principal Scientist

Pamela C. Cosman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Professor
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California
Pamela C. Cosman received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Honors from the California Institute of Technology in 1987. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. In the academic year 1993- 1994, she was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Stanford University, teaching in the area of digital image processing. In the academic year 1994-1995 she was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Since July of 1995 she has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, where she is affiliated with the Center for Wireless Communications. At UCSD, she was the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications from 2006 to 2008, and the Associate Dean for Students of the Jacobs School of Engineering from 2013 to 2016. She is also affiliated with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Dr. Cosman's research interests are in data compression, image and video processing, and machine vision. Her awards include a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Powell Faculty Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, and a Senior Member of IEEE. She is currently a Senior Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Dr. Cosman is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

Patrick Mercier

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Electrical
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer
Patrick Mercier is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-founder/co-director of the Center for Wearable Sensors at UC San Diego, and Site Director of the NSF IUCRC Power Management Integration Center located at Dartmouth and UCSD. He received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2006, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Prof. Mercier has received numerous awards, including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Author-Recognition Award in 2023, the San Diego Engineering Council Outstanding Engineer Award in 2020, a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Speaker in 2019, the NSF CAREER Award in 2018, the Biocom Catalyst Award in 2017, the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2015, the Beckman Young Investigator Award in 2015, The Hellman Fellowship Award in 2014, the ISSCC Jack Kilby Award in 2010, amongst others. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers in venues such as Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, ISSCC (26 papers), Advanced Science, and others. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, is a member of the ISSCC Executive Committee, and was on the CICC and VLSI Technical Program Committees. He has co-edited three books: High-Density Integrated Electrocortical Neural Interfaces (Elsevier Academic Press, 2019), Power Management Integrated Circuits (CRC Press, 2016), and Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios (Springer, 2015). His research interests include the design of energy-efficient mixed-signal systems, RF circuits, power converters, and sensor interfaces for wearable, medical, and mobile applications.

Paul Siegel

Job Titles:
  • Professor
The underlying theme of my research activities is coding, modulation, and signal processing…

Peter Asbeck

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Current activities focus on improved transistors for use in rf and microwave systems; and on…

Prof. Sujit Dey

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board
  • Director CWC, Professor
  • Professor
  • Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Sujit Dey is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications, and the Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at University of California, San Diego. He heads the Mobile Systems Design Laboratory, developing innovative and sustainable edge computing, networking and communications, multi-modal sensor fusion, and deep learning algorithms and architectures to enable novel 5G and 6G use cases like predictive personalized health, X-Reality, smart mobility and smart manufacturing. He has created inter-disciplinary programs involving multiple UCSD schools as well as community, city and industry partners; notably the Connected Health Program in 2016 and the Smart Transportation Innovation Program in 2018. In 2017, he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor, Rady School of Management, and the Jacobs Family Endowed Chair in Engineering Management Leadership. Dr. Dey served as the Faculty Director of the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center from 2013-2015, and as the Chief Scientist, Mobile Networks, at Allot Communications from 2012-2013. In 2015, he co-founded igrenEnergi, providing intelligent battery technology and solutions for EV mobility services. He founded Ortiva Wireless in 2004, where he served as its founding CEO and later as CTO and Chief Technologist till its acquisition by Allot Communications in 2012. Prior to Ortiva, he served as the Chair of the Advisory Board of Zyray Wireless till its acquisition by Broadcom in 2004, and as an advisor to multiple companies including ST Microelectronics and NEC. Prior to joining UCSD in 1997, he was a Senior Research Staff Member at NEC C&C Research Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991. Dr. Dey has co-authored more than 250 publications, and a book on low-power design. He holds 18 U.S. and 2 international patents, resulting in multiple technology licensing and commercialization. He has been a recipient of nine IEEE/ACM Best Paper Awards, and has chaired multiple IEEE conferences and workshops. Dr. Dey is a Fellow of the IEEE

Shahriar Shahramian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Director of the Communication & Sensing ASICs Research Group
Shahriar has been the recipient of Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto Fellowship and the best paper award at the CSICS Symposium in 2005, 2015 and RFIC Symposium in 2015, 2020 and ISSCC in 2018. Shahriar is also the recipient of the IEEE MTT Young Engineer Award in 2020. He holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at Columbia University, has received several teaching awards and is the founder and host of The Signal Path educational video series. Shahriar has also presented short courses and workshops at the IEEE CSICS, BCTM, BCICTS, RFIC/IMS and ISSCC conferences. Shahriar Shahramian (SM '06) received his Ph.D. degree from University of Toronto in 2010 where he…

Steven Truong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • CEO, Vinbrain
Mr. Truong has over 25 years of experience in the software industry as an engineer and a strategic…

Tara Javidi

Job Titles:
  • Founding Co - Director of the Center for Machine - Intelligence
  • Professor
Tara Javidi is Jacobs Family Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD… Besides being an active member of Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), Tara is a founding co-director of the Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing, and Security (MICS) and a Faculty Fellow of Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. Tara Javidi's research interests are in theory of active learning, information theory, and stochastic optimization and their applications to wireless communications and communication network design. She is a Fellow of IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of both IEEE Information Theory (2017/18) and Communications (2019/20) Societies, and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2017/18/19-2020/21/22). She and her Phd students are recipients of the 2021 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. She also received the 2018 and 2019 Qualcomm Faculty Award for her contributions to wireless technology.

Truong Q. Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Chairman ECE, Professor
Low-power integer transforms in image and video compression/processing: integer DCT, integer… Truong Q. Nguyen received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1985, 1986 and 1989, respectively. He was with MIT Lincoln Laboratory from June 1989 to July 1994, as a member of technical staff. During the academic year 1993-94, he was a visiting lecturer at MIT and an adjunct professor at Northeastern University. Since August 1994 to July 1998, he was with the ECE Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was with Boston University from August 1996 to June 2001. He is currently a Professor at the ECE Dept., UCSD. His research interests are in the theory of wavelets and filter banks and applications in low-power image and video compression, efficient DSP algorithms and telecommunications. He is the coauthor (with Prof. Gilbert Strang) of a popular textbook, Wavelets & Filter Banks, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 1997, and the author of several matlab-based toolboxes on image compression, electrocardiogram compression and filter bank design. He also hold a patent on an efficient design method for wavelets and filter banks and several patents on wavelet applications including compression and signal analysis. Prof. Nguyen received the IEEE Transaction in Signal Processing Paper Award (Image and Multidimensional Processing area) for the paper he co-wrote with Prof. P. P. Vaidyanathan on linear-phase perfect-reconstruction filter banks (1992). He received the NSF Career Award in 1995 and is currently the Series Editor (Digital Signal Processing) for Academic Press. He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing from 1994-96 and for the IEEE Transaction on Circuits & Systems from 1996-97. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II and Signal Processing Letters.

Vikas Choudhary

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • VP, Sales & Marketing, PSemi
Vikas Choudhary has over 25 years of experience in the global semiconductor, integrated circuit,…

Xinyu Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Zhang is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego. Before…

Young-Han Kim

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor
Young-Han Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Kim's research primarily focuses on network information theory and the role of feedback in communication networks. More broadly, he is interested in statistical signal processing and information theory, with applications in communication, control, computation, networking, data compression, and learning. Professor Kim received his B.S. degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, in 1996, where he was a recipient of the General Electric Foundation Scholarship. After a three-and-half-year stint as a software architect at Tong Yang Systems, Seoul, Korea, working on several industry projects such as developing the communication infrastructure for then newly opening Incheon International Airport, he resumed his graduate studies at Stanford University, and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (M.S. degrees in Statistics and in Electrical Engineering) in 2006. Professor Kim is a recipient of the 2008 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award the 2009 US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Bergmann Memorial Award, and the 2012 IEEE Information Theory Paper Award. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, serving as an Associate Editor for Shannon theory. He is also serving as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Information Theory Society. Professor Kim's research is focused on two important aspects of information processing - efficient description of data and reliable transmission of it. Together they span a wide spectrum of problems in statistical signal processing and information theory, motivated by practical challenges as well as theoretical curiosity. He explores fundamental principles behind the theory of information processing and provides implementable guidelines for practice.

Yves Baeyens

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Principal Scientist
  • Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University
  • Fellow of the IEEE
Yves Baeyens received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1997. After his Ph.D., he spent one and a half year as a visiting scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics in Freiburg, Germany. Since 1998, he has been with Bell Laboratories, in Murray Hill, NJ, USA, currently the research division of Nokia. As a Bell-Labs Principal Scientist, he is responsible for research in mm-wave ASIC's, High-Speed Electronic and Opto-Electronic Systems. Yves Baeyens is a 2009 Fellow of the IEEE and a 2016 Bell-Labs Fellow. He authored or co-authored over 100 publications on high-speed circuits and semiconductor technologies and received multiple best paper awards including the 2018 ISSCC Lewis Winner Outstanding Paper Award and the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Industry Paper Awards in both 2015 and 2020. Since 2003, Yves Baeyens is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University, New York City, NY, where he teaches a graduate course on advanced microwave circuit design.