Education

Rice University

1987 PhD in Electrical Engineering
1985 Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
1983 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Experience

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty since 1988. Currently a Professor. Also a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Beckman Institute.



University of Melbourne, Australia

Academic Visitor, Electrical Engineering Department, December 2005



University of California, Berkeley

Sabbatical Semester, 2002.



Rice University

Served as the Texas Instruments Visiting Professor during the Spring 1999 semester.



University of Cambridge, England

Participant in the Programme on Nonlinear and Nonstationary Signal Processing at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, July - September 1998

University of Washington

Sabbatical Semester, 1995.



University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Fulbright Fellowship for postdoctoral research during the 1987-88 academic year.

Honors

Fellow of the IEEE, 2001
2003 Connexions Author of the Year
UIUC ECE Ronald W. Pratt Award for Teaching Excellence, 2006
1999 Texas Instruments Visiting Professor, Rice University

Textbooks Written

A Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Using the TMS32010

Research Interests

Research interests are in digital signal processing and communications, including time-frequency and time-varying signal analysis, adaptive filters and equalization, OFDM and DMT optimization, and various applications including low-power wireless communication and advanced hearing aids.