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.
In addition to his faculty appointment, Rick Brown has held consulting contracts with several companies for a variety of different projects including OFDM receiver design and signal analysis, interference mitigation in digital subscriber loops, and network timing recovery and synchronization. He has also served as an expert witness and technical consultant for wireless communication intellectual property litigation. A summary of his curriculum vitae.
current graduate students
Min Ni received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Sichuan University, China in July 2007. She joined spinlab in August of 2009 as a Ph.D. student. Her research interests are in the area of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and theoretic analysis of cooperative transmission systems.
former graduate students
- Jie Yang: PhD July 2009.
- Boyang Zhang: MSECE May 2009. Currently with Azimuth Systems.
- 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
recent collaborators
- Robert Preuss: Lead Scientist, BBN Technologies.
- 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.