Prof. Robert W. Heath
phone: (512) 232-2014
e-mail: rheath@ece.utexas.edu
personal homepage: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~rheath/
Robert W. Heath, Jr. is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at
Austin, Associate Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), and the Director of 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 2001, he
was affiliated with 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. In
2003 he founded MIMO Wireless Inc, a consulting company dedicated to the advancement of MIMO technology.
Research Interests
Dr. Heath's current research include all aspects of MIMO communication including antenna design, practical receiver architectures, limited feedback techniques, mobility management, multiuser transmission, and scheduling algorithms as well as cognitive radio and 60GHz wireless communication. Dr. Heath is also heavily involved with multihop wireless networking including the role of feedback in multihop networks as well as practical implementation as co-developer of a MIMO-OFDM Multihop testbed. 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 120 refereed conference and journal papers, been awarded 8 patents, and is the author of the forthcoming book {\it OFDM: Principles of Multicarrier Modulation}. Dr. Heath serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communication, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and is a member of the Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
