Stephen O. Rice Award
Gregory D. Durgin received B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E. degrees from Virginia Tech in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Mobile & Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) at Virginia Tech.
He began his research career as an undergraduate developing laser scanning hardware and software for image acquisition for the Optical Image Processing Laboratory at Virginia Tech. Since 1996, he has been a research assistant at the Mobile & Portable Radio Research Group, where his research focuses on radio wave propagation, channel modeling, measurements and applied electromagnetics. As a student, he published nine technical papers and received six scholarships.
Email: gdurgin@vt.edu
Theodore S. Rappaport received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1982, 1984 and 1987, respectively.
Since 1988, he has been on the Virginia Tech electrical and computer engineering faculty, where he is the James S. Tucker Professor and the founder and director of the Mobile & Portable Radio Research Center (MPRG), a university research and teaching center dedicated to the wireless communications field. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited 11 books in the wireless field, including the popular textbook Wireless Communications: Principles and Practices (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996), and a compendia of papers Cellular Radio and Personal Communications: Selected Readings (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1996), and Smart Antennas: Selected Readings (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1998). He has co-authored more than a 130 technical journal and conference papers, holds 3 patents, and has consulted for over 20 multinational corporations. He has also served the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a technical expert for developing nations. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal for Wireless Information Networks (Plenum Press, NY) and has served as a senior editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications from 1990to 1998. He is also the chairman of Wireless Valley Communications Inc., a software development firm focusing on in-building/microcell wireless communication systems. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia. He is Fellow and past member of the board of directors of the Radio Club of America.
Email: wireless@vt.edu
Hao Xu was born in Wuhan, China, on February 28, 1971. He received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Technical University in 1994 and1996, respectively.
In 1989, as a result of his third place ranking in the national entrance examination to universities in China, he received the University of Science and Technology of China's Zhang Zhongzhi Price award and was selected to study in Moscow. In 1996, he began working toward the Ph.D degree at the Virginia Tech, where his research focuses on radio wave propagation and FR channel modeling, including the design and development of channel measurement system. Current research includes high speed PN generator design and wideband channel characterization at 38 and 60 GHz. Mr.Xu is a member of Eta Kappa Nu.
Email: haoxu@vt.edu
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