Heath Obtains Licensures

Dr. Robert W. Heath Jr. has recently obtained two professional licenses; one as a Professional Engineer in Texas and the second, a General Amateur Radio license. Heath joins fellow ECE faculty member Ted Rappaport who has had an Extra Class License for many years and is a ham radio enthusiast.

Robert W. Heath Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group where he directs the Wireless Systems Innovations Laboratory. He received his B.S.E.E. (1996) and his M.S.E.E. (1997) degrees from the University of Virginia, and the Ph.D.E.E. (2002) degree from Stanford University. From 1998 to 1999, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Iospan Wireless Inc, San Jose, CA where he played a key role in the design and implementation of the physical and link layers of the first commercial MIMO-OFDM communication system. The proposed broadband wireless access system employed OFDM modulation, MIMO technology, and adaptive space-time modulation. From 1999 to 2001 he served as a Senior Consultant for Iospan Wireless Inc. In 2003 he founded MIMO Wireless Inc, a consulting company dedicated to the advancement of MIMO technology. Since January 2002, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he serves as an Assistant Professor as part of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. Prof. Heath's current research interests include interference management in wireless networks, sequence design, and all aspects of MIMO communication including antenna design, practical receiver architectures, limited feedback techniques, mobility management, and scheduling algorithms. He teaches courses on a variety of topics including Wireless Communication, Digital Signal Processing, Space-Time Communication, and Statistical Signal Processing, to support his research program in wireless communication systems. He has published over 100 refereed conference and journal papers, been awarded 7 patents, and has 7 patents pending in wireless communications and related fields. Currently he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions for Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.