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Yuanbin Guo received the B.S. degree from
Peking University, and the M.S. degree from
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommu-
nications, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 1999,
respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Rice
University, Houston, Tex, in May 2005, all in
electrical engineering. He was a winner of
the Presidential Fellowship in Rice Univer-
sity in 2000. From 1999 to 2000, he was with
Lucent Bell Laboratories, Beijing, where he
conducted R&D in the Intelligent Network Department. He joined
Nokia Research Center, Irving, Tex, in 2002 as a Research Engineer.
His current research interests include equalization and detection
for multiple-antenna systems, VLSI design and prototyping, and
DSP and VLSI architectures for wireless systems. He is a Member
of the IEEE. He has 6 patents pending in wireless communications
field.
Joseph R. Cavallaro received the B.S. de-
gree from the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa, in 1981, the M.S. degree
from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in
1982, and the Ph.D. degree from Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988, all in electri-
cal engineering. From 1981 to 1983, he was
with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ.
In 1988, he joined the faculty of Rice Uni-
versity, Houston, Tex, where he is currently
a Professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research in-
terests include computer arithmetic, VLSI design and microlithog-
raphy, and DSP and VLSI architectures for applications in wireless
communications. During the 1996-1997 academic year, he served
at the USA National Science Foundation as Director of the Pro-
totyping Tools and Methodology Program. During 2005, he was
a Nokia Foundation Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the Uni-
versity of Oulu, Finland. He is currently the Associate Director
of the Center for Multimedia Communication at Rice University.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was Cochair of the 2004
Signal Processing for Communications Symposium at the IEEE
Global Communications Conference and General Cochair of the
2004 IEEE 15th International Conference on Application-Specific
Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP).
Jianzhong(Charlie) Zhang received the
B.S. degrees in both electrical engineering
and applied physics from Tsinghua Univer-
sity, Beijing, China, in 1995, the M.S. de-
gree in electrical engineering from Clem-
son University in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree
in electrical engineering from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2003. He has
been with Nokia Research Center in Irving,
Tex, since June 2001, where he is currently a
Senior Research Engineer. His Research has focused on the applica-
tion of statistical signal processing methods to wireless communi-
cation problems. From 2001 to 2004, he worked on the transceiver
designs for both EDGE and CDMA2000/WCDMA cellular systems.
Since July 2004, he has participated in Nokia’s contributions to the
IEEE 802.16e Standard, especially in the PHY layer topics such as
LDPC codes, space-time-frequency coding and limited-feedback-
based MIMO precoding.
Dennis M. McCain received his B.S. de-
gree in electrical engineering from Lousiana
State University in 1990 and his M.S. degree
in electrical engineering from Texas A&M
University in 1992. From 1992 to 1996, he
served in the USA Army as a Signal Of-
ficer responsible for deploying communi-
cation networks in tactical environments.
From 1996 to 1998, he worked at Texas In-
struments and Raytheon Systems as a Dig-
ital Design Engineer. In 1999, he joined Nokia Research Center,
Dallas, Tex, to develop a prototype WLAN system. He is currently a
Research Manager in Nokia Research Center leading a team respon-
sible for implementing novel physical-layer algorithms for new cel-
lular and noncellular wireless systems. His interests are in the ar-
eas of hardware architecture research, digital baseband design, and
rapid-prototype design flows.
