Choi Awarded Graduate Fellowship

Wan Choi, a Ph.D. candidate under the direction of WNCG Prof. Jeffrey G. Andrews, received the William S. Livingston Graduate Fellowship from the Office of Graduate Studies at The University of Texas at Austin for 2005-2006. The Livingston Fellowship program was established in January 1995, in honor of William S. Livingston, Professor of Government and longtime Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The program is intended to provide recognition and financial support to outstanding graduate students at UT. The Livingston Fellowship is the highest fellowship award the Office of Graduate Studies makes through the Faculty Review Committee process.

Wan Choi received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the R&D Division of Korea Telecom (KT) Freetel from 1998 to 2003 where he researched 3G CDMA systems. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2001, in recognition of his research on downlink capacity for multicell CDMA systems, he received the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, which recognizes the best system paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. His current research focuses on multicell MIMO communication.