Professor Robert W. Heath Jr.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E., IEEE Fellow
David and Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow
Associate Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
News: Promotion to Professor starting September 2012
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. My research expertise is at the intersection of wireless communication, signal processing, applied math, and communication theory. I have an active research program in all aspects of MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication focusing on next generation cellular technologies, limited feedback, multiuser MIMO, multihop MIMO, antenna design, and MIMO ad hoc networks. In addition I am pursing a variety of problems in related areas like vector quantization, joint source-channel coding, and ad hoc networking. I am part of the DARPA ITMANET team developing a Non-Equillibrium Information Theory. I am leading the UT team developing a Perceptual Optimization of Large Scale Wireless Video Networks funded by Intel and Cisco. If you would like to work with me please click the students link for more details.
I teach courses at both the undergraduate and the graduate level on topics such as wireless communication, digital signal processing, statistical signal processing, and multi-antenna communication methods. Of particular interest, I have developed a complete Wireless Communications Laboratory course with lecture notes, textbook, and experiments, now available for the USRP platform.
I will be giving a plenary at CAMSAP 2011 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. I am proud to be accepted to the inaugural class of Vehicular Technology Distinguished Lecturers. Please contact me if you would like to set up a lecture.
I enjoy participating and interacting with industry and government through sponsored research, standards participation, and consulting. Please contact me for more details.
IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Base-Station and Cloud Base-Station and Large-Scale Cooperative CommunicationsCloud BS workshop_CFP. Submissions being accepted until June 1!
