Telecommunications and Signal Processing Research Center
Overview
In June 1999, the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Research Center (TSPRC) was formed from the combination of the Electrical Engineering Research Laboratory and the Electronics Research Center. The Center was formed (i) in recognition of many faculty performing telecommunications and telecommunications-related research, (ii) to heighten the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's visibility to the telecommunications industry in Texas, and (iii) to provide a focal point for coordinating activities of the Texas Telecommunication Engineering Consortium (TxTEC). TxTEC consists of several companies and five Texas universities. The mission of the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Research Center (TSPRC) is to perform over-the-horizon research on topics that, in our best judgment, will be crucial for the future development of telecommunications in Texas and the nation. In carrying out this mission, we will provide exceptional educational and research opportunities for our students. Dr. Edward J. Powers, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation Professor in Engineering, has been appointed the first director.
Center Faculty and their Specialties
- Jeff Andrews (Current research interests focus on advanced CDMA systems, particulary system level design of multi-user receivers)
- Ari Arapostathis (Current research interests include stochastic control, controlled Markov chains and stochastic games, control of switching/jump diffusions, hybrid systems, inteilligent agents, and interconnected power systems)
- Bill Bard (Associate Director, TSPRC; Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director of the Network Engineering Lab)
- Alan Bovik (Associate Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) which includes the Laboratory for Vision Systems (LVS); his research interests span digital video processing and communication, image processing, computational models of visual perception, and 3-D microscopy)
- Gustavo de Veciana (Resource management for high-speed networks; simulation and estimation methodologies; network monitoring and measurement; planning and pricing for communication networks; wireless networks)
- Brian Evans (Director of the Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory (ESPL); he focuses on the design and real-time implementation of embedded signal and image processing systems including ADSL/VDSL transceivers, desktop printer pipelines, video codecs, and 3-D sonar imaging systems)
- Robert Heath (Director of the Wireless Systems Innovations Lab which uses analytical tools, simulation techniques, and prototyping to investigate a number of technical challenges in the engineering of future wireless systems)
- Hao Ling (Applied electromagnetics, with an emphasis on analyzing and reducing the
radar cross section of low observable targets; satellite reflector antenna designs and the characterization of microwave integrated circuits)
- Scott Nettles (Active networks)
- Edward J Powers (Director, TSPRC; application of novel digital signal processing techniques [based on higher-order statistics, wavelets, and time-frequency distributions] to a wide variety of important nonlinear and/or transient problems in science and engineering)
- Ted Rappaport (William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering; current research interests focuses on developing new methods for analyzing and developing wireless broadband network access and portable internet access; the development, modeling, and practical use of 3-D site specific propagation techniques, and their use in wireless communication system design, analysis, and build-out. He is also the Director of the newly-formed Wireless Networking and Communications Group-WNCG)
- Sanjay Shakkottai (Current research interests include scheduling and QoS for wireless and adhoc networks, congestion control in the Internet design and performance analysis of sensor networks and resource allocation for heterogeneous networks)
Wolfhard J Vogel (Satellite-earth wave propagation research, moving from rain attenuation and depolarization effects at frequencies above 10 GHz to fading effects due to shadowing and multipath for land-mobile and personal satellite communications at frequencies from UHF to K-Band, and vector-channel propagation measurements)
To Contact the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Research Center:
Write: The University of Texas at Austin
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1 University Station C0804
Austin, TX 78712-0240
Call:
512/471-3954
FAX:512/471-1856
Last Updated 1 October 2002
Pam Campbell