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Professors
The Communications Group is home to a number of celebrated faculty who conduct research spanning a broad range of communication disciplines. The following list provides specific information on each member of our professorial staff.

Parham Aarabi, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Stanford)
Sound localization, microphone arrays, speech processing and recognition, adaptive and statistical signal processing, neural networks, vision.

Raviraj Adve, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse)
Smart antennas for wireless communications, signal processing in airborne and spaceborne radar systems, model-based parameter estimation.

Ian F. Blake, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Princeton)
Public key cryptography, computational number theory, distributed protocols, construction of good codes, low density parity check codes.

Brendan J. Frey, Professor (Ph.D., Toronto)
Probabilistic inference, machine learning, computer vision, speech processing, bioinformatics, iterative error-correcting decoding, data compression.

Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Professor (Ph.D., Northeastern)
Digital signal processing with applications, higher-order spectral analysis, adaptive filter algorithms, statistical and nonlinear signal processing.

Frank R. Kschischang, Professor (Ph.D., Toronto)
Coded modulation, coding techniques, decoding algorithms, source coding, information theory, communication theory.

Raymond Kwong, Professor (Ph.D., M.I.T)
Digital watermarking, multimedia authentication, data hiding and security, adaptive signal processing, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control.

Alberto Leon-Garcia, Professor (Ph.D., USC)
Integrated services broadband networks, network resource management, high-speed wireless access, advanced switching concepts, video compression.

Ben Liang, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Cornell)
Wireless multimedia networking, ad hoc networking, sensor networks, information assurance, mobility and resource management.

Jörg Liebeherr, Professor and Chair, Communications Group (Ph.D., Georgia Tech)
Network protocols, service guarantees, traffic control algorithm, network analysis, mobile networks, overlay peer networks.

Teng Joon Lim, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Cambridge)
Optimal filtering, adaptive signal processing, multiuser detection, CDMA system design, iterative decoding, multicarrier modulation, fading channel performance analysis.

Hoi-Kwong Lo, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Caltech)
Quantum cryptography, quantum information theory,  quantum computing.

Pas S. Pasupathy, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Yale)
Coding and modulation, wireless communications, adaptive and statistical signal processing, detection and estimation, VLSI and communication algorithms.

Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Florida Tech)
Multimedia signal processing, adaptive systems, pattern recognition, detection and estimation, communications systems.

Elvino S. Sousa, Professor (Ph.D., USC)
Spread spectrum systems, packet radio networks, mobile communications, indoor wireless communications, personal communication networks, wireless LAN's, error control techniques.

Shahrokh Valaee, Associate Professor (Ph.D., McGill)
Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning in high-speed networks, traffic scheduling, differentiated services (DiffServ), Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), self-similarity and traffic modeling, and video streaming over the Internet .

Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (Ph.D., Yale)
Multimedia systems, digital signal/image processing, digital communications, neural networks and fuzzy reasoning in signal/image processing.

Wei Yu, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Stanford)
Digital communications, information theory, coding, modulation, equalization, OFDM, multi-user channel capacity, broadband access networks, Gigabit Ethernet, wireless LAN (802.11), digital subscriber lines (DSL), chip-to-chip interconnects.

Other Related Faculty

A number of professors from other groups in Electrical and Computer Engineering conduct research of interest to the Communications Group. A list of some associated faculty follows:

Last updated June 2006.