Email addresses and home pages of current faculty and students can be found by using the WPI campus directory.
faculty
Donald Richard Brown III (Rick) joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2000 as an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founded spinlab in 2002. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2000 from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in 1996 and 1992 from The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, all in Electrical Engineering. He was also employed by the General Electric Company, Plainville, CT as a Development Engineer from 1992 to 1997.
post-doctoral associates
Fatemeh Fazel received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2000, her M.Sc. degree from University of Southern California in 2002 and her Ph.D degree from the University of California, Irvine in 2008. Her research interests are in the area of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, space-time coding, space-frequency codes for MIMO-OFDM and reconfigurable MIMO systems. Her web page.
current graduate students
Jie Yang received her MS in Communication Engineering from Huazong University of Science and Technology in June 2005. She joined spinlab in August of 2005 as a PhD student and is currently working on resource allocation and game theoretic analysis of cooperative transmission systems.
Boyang Zhang received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Nankai University in June 2007. He joined spinlab in August of 2008 as an MS student and is currently working on real-time DSP implementation of time-slotted carrier synchronization for distributed beamforming.
former graduate students
- Tyson Coey: MSECE July 2007.
- James McGinley: MSECE May 2007.
- Steven Laverty: MSECE May 2005.
- Kevin Keenaghan: MSECE May 2004. Currently with NUWC.
- Altin Peltekun: MSECE January 2004. Currently working towards his PhD in NECAMSID.
- Jeff Fanueff: MSECE July 2002. Currently with Bose, Inc.
current undergraduate students
- Matthew Murdy: BSECE May 2008.
- Boris Svirchuk: BSECE May 2008.
recent collaborators
- H. Vincent Poor: Dean of Engineering, Princeton University.
- Raghu Mudumbai: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Santa Barbara.
- Upamanyu Madhow: Professor, University of California Santa Barbara.
- Andrea Goldsmith: Professor, Stanford University.
- Elza Erkip: Associate Professor, Polytechnic University.
- Deniz Gunduz: Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University.
- Man-On Pun: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
- John McNeill: Associate Professor, WPI ECE Department.
- Andy Klein: Assistant Professor, WPI ECE Department.