Leonard G. Abraham Award
Tai-Ann Chen received double-major B.S. degrees with the highest honor in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1989, and M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, in 1994 and 1998, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering.
He joined Lucent Technologies, Whippany, New Jersey, USA as a Member of Technical Staff in 1998, and is currently working on the algorithms design and analysis of the third generation cellular systems. His research interests include communication theory, wireless channel characteristics, multiple-antenna techniques, spread spectrum systems, and signal processing algorithms.
Michael P. Fitz received his B.E.E. degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, in 1983 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984 and 1989, respectively.
He was employed at Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, CA and TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA while in graduate school. In 1989, he accepted an Assistant Professorship with the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1995. He accepted a position as an Associate Professor at the Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, OH and began full time at OSU in 1997. His research is in the broad area of statistical communication theory. A major component of his research program is physical layer communications theory for mobile wireless communications. This effort focuses on modulation, coding, demodulation, synchronization, and equalization techniques optimized for mobile or vehicular digital communications. His current interests include space-time coding theory, channel estimation, synchronization and demodulation and decoding algorithms for narrowband and time division multiplexed wireless data transmission.
Prof. Fitz is member of the Information Processing Systems (IPS) Laboratory at OSU and has directed the formation of the Wireless Communications Laboratory within IPS. The laboratory develops algorithms for, analyzes performance, and develops breadboard testbeds of wireless communication radio modems and networks.
Wen-Yi Kuo is the founder and CTO of Wiscom Technologies. He currently leads 3G WCDMA core technology development and the baseband chip design for WCDMA mobile terminals. His research areas are fading channel modeling, synchronization, diversity, receiver design, radio resource control and deployment optimization. From 1/95 to 4/99, he was with Lucent Bell Labs working on IS-95 and cdma2000 performance analysis and system engineering. During 4/99 to 5/00, he was with AT&T Labs-Research and led WCDMA investigations on spectrum efficiency, packet data and radio resource management.
Dr. Kuo holds 7 US patents and has another 36 patents pending. He is an Editor for IEEE JSAC - Wireless Series. Dr. Kuo received BS from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, MSEE from National Taiwan University, and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Michael D. Zoltowski received both the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering withhighest honors from Drexel University in 1983 and the Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986.In Fall 1986, he joined the faculty of Purdue University where he currently holds the position of Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Zoltowski was the co-recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1991 Paper Award. He is also a co-recipient of "The Fred Ellersick MILCOM Award for Best Paper in the Unclassified Technical Program" at the IEEE Military Communications (MILCOM '98) Conference. He is also the recipient of a Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2000).He has served as an associate editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Communications Letters. Within the IEEE Signal Processing Society, he is currently a member of both the Technical Committee for Communications and the Technical Committee on DSP Education. In addition, he is currently a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors and Secretary of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Jimm H. Grimm received the B.S.E.E degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1990, the M.S.E.E degree from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue in 1998.
While at Purdue he was a key figure in the design, analysis, implementation, and field testing of a prototype wireless mobile modem. From 1998-2000 he worked at Grayson Wireless on geolocation for wireless E911. He worked at Lucent from 2000-2001 on UMTS W-CDMA base station design. He is currently at Wiscom Technologies working on 3G handset design. His research interests include estimation theory, synchronization, and error control coding.
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