I am a professor in the ECE department at Texas A&M University. My research interests are generally in the areas of communication theory, channel coding, information theory and signal processing. Specifically, I am interested in codes on graphs, iterative decoding, joint source and channel coding, the interplay between coding and queueing and joint physical layer and network layer design. I am particularly interested in applications to wireless communications and data storage.
Research My current (as of October 2009) research projects are in the areas of joint source and channel coding for wireless communications, joint physical layer coding and network coding, soft decision decoding of RS codes, Quoding theory (design of codes taking in to account queueing considerations), design of message passing algorithms for solving Lagrangian dynamics problems. Our research group's web page will give detailed information about my research interests, sponsors, students, collaborators, publications, preprints and recent presentations. Please visit our research page.
Teaching - I will be teaching the honors section of ECEN 314 Signals and Systems during Fall 2010. I am also involved in developing a precalculus course for freshman which involves using engineering examples for teaching mathematical concepts at the freshman level. In the past, I have taught graduate and undergraduate level courses on digital communications, signals and sysems, both basic and advanced channel coding, information theory and wireless communications.
Service - I am currently the area editor for the coding theory and applications area of the IEEE transactions on communications and I am one of the Technical program chairs for the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2010) to be held in Austin, Texas. I have served on the editorial board of the IEEE transactions on wireless communications and the IEEE communications letters. I have been on the technical program committee for several conferences in the past.
