Robert W. Heath

Robert W. Heath Jr. received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Virginia, in 1996 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, USA, in 2002, all in electrical engineering. During 1998–2001, he was a senior member of the technical staff, then a Senior Consultant at Iospan Wireless Inc., where he worked on the design and implementation of the physical and link layers of the first commercial MIMO-OFDM communication system. In 2003, he founded MIMO Wireless Inc., a consulting company dedicated to the advancement of MIMO technology. Since January 2002, he has been working at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently an Associate Professor and Member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. His research interests include several aspects of MIMO communication: limited feedback techniques, multihop networking, multiuser MIMO, antenna design, and scheduling algorithms as well as 60 GHz communication techniques and multimedia signal processing. Heath has been an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communication, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is a Member of the Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was a Technical Cochair for the 2007 Fall Vehicular Technology Conference, General Chair of the 2008 Communication Theory Workshop, and a General Cochair and Coorganizer of the 2009 Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Workshop. He is the recipient of the David and Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellowship in engineering, and is a registered professional Engineer in Texas.

Biography Updated on 5 June 2008

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