SESSION TU2A
Enabling Technologies for the Next Generation Radio and Wireless Networks – I
Time: Tue 9, January 2007
Room: TBD

Chair: Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University
Co-Chair: Geoffrey Li, Georgia Tech

"Wireless Sensing Systems: From ecosystems to human systems", Prof. Deborah Estrin, UCLA

"Adaptive Wireless Access System Design for Cognitive Radio Networks", Prof. Vijay Bhargava, U. of British Columbia

"Cognitive radio prototype toward IMT-Advanced wireless communication systems", Dr. Hiroshi Harada, NICT, Japan

Deborah Estrin is the Jon Postel Chair Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, and is Director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). Her current research interests include the development of protocols and systems architectures needed to realize rapidly-deployable and robustly-operating networks of many hundreds of physically-embedded devices, e.g., sensor networks. She is particularly interested in the application of spatially and temporally dense embedded sensors to environmental monitoring. Professor Estrin is a fellow of the ACM, AAAS and the IEEE.

Vijay K. Bhargava is a Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include digital communications, error correcting codes, and systems and technologies beyond IMT 2000. He served as the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society. Professor Bhargava a Fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Hiroshi Harada is the research manager of ubiquitous mobile communications group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT (formerly Communications Research Laboratory , Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications), Japan and has been the chair of Technical Committee on Software Radio, IEICE Communication Society since May 2005. His current research interests include digital-signal-processing based mobile telecommunication systems, e.g. software radio, cognitive radio, and broadband wireless access (BWA) systems. He received the achievement award of IEICE in 2006. He is an author of "Simulation and Software Radio for Mobile Communication" (Artech House 2002).

SESSION WE2A
Enabling Technologies for the Next Generation Radio and Wireless Networks – II
Time: Wed. 10, January 2007
Room: TBD

Chair: Aly Fathy, University of Tennessee
Co-Chair: Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University

"Performance of MIMO Techniques to Achieve Full Diversity and Maximum Spatial Multiplexing", Prof. Ender Ayanoglu, UC Irvine

"A 5GHz, 108Mb/s 2x2 MIMO CMOS Transceiver", Dr. Y. Palaskas, Intel

"Implementing CDMA Reverse Link Interference Cancellation", Dr. John Smee, Qualcomm

Ender Ayanoglu is the Conexant-Broadcom Chair Professor, and Director of  Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, in the EECS Department, University of California at Irvine. His current research interests are in next generation wireless, broadband, and optical communications. He is interested in the design, analysis, and optimization of communication systems, algorithms and chips for broadband ubiquitous communications. Prof. Ayanolgu is a Fellow of the IEEE and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Yorgos Palaskas received the Diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from Columbia University, New York, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Since January 2003, he has been with the Communications Technology Laboratory, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, where he is currently a Lead Design Engineer doing research on architectures and circuits for wireless CMOS transceivers.

John E. Smee is a Sr. Staff Engineer and Manager in the Corporate Research and Development group at QUALCOMM, Inc. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, NJ, all in electrical engineering. He joined QUALCOMM in January 2000 and has been involved in the system design for a variety of projects focused on the innovation of wireless communications systems, making contributions to CDMA, 802.11, OFDM, and MIMO.  He is currently leading the systems design for CDMA interference cancellation. He has been granted 15 patents in the area of digital communications.

SESSION TH2A
Enabling Technologies for the Next Generation Radio and Wireless Networks – III
Time: Thu. 11, January 2007
Room: TBD

Chair: Geoffrey Li, Georgia Tech
Co-Chair: Aly Fathy, University of Tennessee

"Modern Antenna Designs using Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques: Let Darwin and the bees help designing your Multi band MIMO antennas", Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii, UCLA

"Transmitter Performance Characterization with Amplitude and Phase EVM", Dr. Michael Fitz, Northrop Grumman Corp.

"Next Generation Mobile Broadband Wireless Communications", Dr. Wenwu Zhu, Intel China

Yahya Rahmat-Samii is a Distinguished Professor and past chairman of the EE Department at UCLA. He was the 1995 President of IEEE APS, has served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1985. Dr. Rahmat-Samii has authored and co-authored over 660 technical journal articles and conference papers and has written 20 book chapters and three books. Dr. Rahmat-Samii has received numerous awards, including IEEE AP-S Wheeler Best Application Prize Paper Award, 1999 University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and AMTA’2000 Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2002, he received the Technical Excellence Award from JPL and was the 2005 recipient of the URSI Booker Gold Medal.

Michael P. Fitz was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. His research is in the broad area of statistical communication theory, with focuses on coding, demodulation, synchronization, and equalization techniques optimized for mobile or vehicular digital communications. He is active in experimental wireless communications. Dr. Fitz is now with Northrop Grumman Corp.  He received the 2001 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award.

Wenwu Zhu was the Research Manager of Wireless and Networking Group, Microsoft Research China. His research interests include wireless/Internet video transport, wireless/Internet multimedia communications and networking, and multimedia signal processing. His is now the Director of Communication Technology Lab of Intel China. Dr. Zhu received the Best Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2001.