Digital Signal Processing & Communications

Faculty

  • Shiwen Mao - Assistant Professor (Polytechnic Univ. - '04). Algorithmic, optimization, and performance issues in wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor networks, cross-layer design and optimization, and multimedia communications over wireless/wireline networks.
  • Stanley J. Reeves - Professor (Georgia Inst. of Tech. - '90). Signal processing, medical imaging, image and signal reconstruction.
  • Jitendra K. Tugnait - Professor (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - '78). Statistical signal processing and analysis, wireless and wireline communications, multisensor multitarget tracking.

Areas of Expertise

  • Image and signal reconstruction/restoration methods
  • Design/optimization of signal and image acquisition geometries and strategies
  • Image coding/compression
  • Passive millimeter-wave and optical imaging analysis and reconstruction
  • Detection, identification, and tracking of maneuvering targets in noise and clutter
  • Estimation and equalization of multiuser channels
  • Medium access control and coss-layer design in random access networks
  • Modeling, estimating and equalizing wireless/mobile channels
  • Synchronization for wideband communications and sensor networks
  • Complex-field coding and turbo decoding for fading channels