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 the Tehran University, Iran, in 1976, the M.E. degree from the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, UK, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College, University of London, UK, in 1981. From 1981 to 1989 he was with the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran. From 1989 to 2000 he was with the 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 cognitive/adaptive radios,   filter bank-based multicarrier communications, detection techniques for MIMO communication systems, and implementation of these systems. In the past, he has worked and has made significant contribution to areas of adaptive filters theory, acoustic echo cancellation, magnetic/optical recoding, digital subscriber line technologies, as well as the areas of his current interest. He authored the books "Adaptive Filters: theory and applications", John Wiley & Sons, 1998, and "Signal Processing Techniques for Software Radios", self published at Lulu publishing house. In the past he has served as associate editor for IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

Pooyan Amini - PhD student

Pooyan Amini received the B.S. degree with highest honors from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran in 2007. He was a member of the IUT robotic center where he served as an active team member for a year. The team ranked first in the 2004 Robot World Cup, as well as second place 2004 German Open. He is working toward his Ph.D. degree at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His research interests include underwater acoustic communications, multicarrier communication, cognitive radios, and MIMO detection.

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 the University of Utah and she is completing her Ph.D. degree in 2012. Her current research is on joint channel estimation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo detection for high-rate MIMO Communications. With 8 years of research experience in wireless communication, she is looking forward to development and design positions in industry.

Chung Him Yuen - PhD Student

Chung Him Yuen received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in May 2007. He joined the Wireless Communications Lab afterwards and has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with Dr. Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny serving as his advisor. He received an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in Dec 2011 while doing research in the lab. His research focuses on signal processing in wireless communications, including OFDM, filter bank multicarrier communication techniques, power reduction methods in SC-FDMA uplink of LTE, and time scaling compensation in Doppler scaling channels. He has also done work using USRP2 radio hardware for implementation of different transceiver systems.

Daryl Wasden - PhD student

Daryl received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 2009. Since that time, he has been working toward a Ph.D. He is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His work with the Wireless Communications Lab started in 2008. He has been involved in a number of research projects including spectrum sensing for cognitive radio, MIMO/CDMA detection, and implementations for software-defined radio systems. His primary interest is in merging cutting-edge research with real-world implementations. Currently, he is applying filter bank multicarrier modulation and spread spectrum techniques to implement a radio transceiver using Xilinx FPGAs and National Instruments hardware. Previously, he developed a MIMO-OFDM transceiver based on LabVIEW code and National Instruments hardware as well as a single antenna OFDM system. Before that, he designed a single carrier BPSK transceiver implemented using a Texas Instruments digital signal processor (DSP) and developed in the C programming language.

Mohamed Abou Bakr Othman - PhD Student

Mohamed Abou Bakr joined the Wireless Communications Lab in Spring 2011 as a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah. His research interests include channel estimation in MIMO-OFDM networks, radar signal processing, and SDR development. Earlier, Mohamed received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees with honors in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in 2007 and 2010 respectively. During 2008 to 2010, he worked at Valeo as an embedded software engineer. Beside research, his interests include reading, traveling, and playing Soccer.