Electrical Engineering
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
Alexander M. Wyglinski
Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 508-***-****
[office] Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
508-***-**** [fax] 100 Institute *********@***.***.*** Worcester,
MA 01609-2280 http://ece.wpi.edu/~alexw
/
Research Interests
Cognitive and Software-Defined Radios:
Transceiver Optimization
Spectrum Sensing and Identification
Opportunistic Spectrum Access Communications
Adaptive Allocation
Reconfigurable Wireless Systems
Hardware Implementations
Wireless Communications:
OFDM and Multicarrier Modulation
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) systems Signal Processing for Communications:
Array Signal Processing
Equalizer Design
Transmultiplexer / Filterbank Implementations
Wireless Networking:
Multi-Hop Routing
Mesh Networking
Integrated Fiber-Wireless Access Networks
Decentralized Wireless Networks
Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor
(August 2007Present)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA, USA
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses
Conduct advanced research in the areas of wireless communications and networks
Supervise undergraduate and graduate students
Produce scholarly publications based on my research program
Solicit research funding for advanced wireless systems research programs
Assistant Research Professor
(July 2005July 2007)
Information and Telecommunication Technology Center
(ITTC)
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA
Conduct advanced research in the areas of wireless communications and networks
Supervise undergraduate and graduate students
Produce scholarly publications based on my research program
Solicit research funding for advanced wireless systems research programs
Courtesy Assistant Professor
(July 2005July 2007)
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Electrical Engineering (starting Spring 2007)
Supervise undergraduate and graduate students
Research Associate
(February 2005June 2005)
Centre for Advanced Systems and Technologies in Communications (SYTACom) and
Agile All-Photonic Networks (AAPN) Research Network
Montreal, QC, Canada
Conducted research in the areas of wireless communications and networks
Member (non-voting) of SYTACom advisory committee
Organizer of 2005 SYTACom Technology Forum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (February 23, 2005)
Organizer of 2005 AAPN Annual Research Review at Nortel s Carling Road Campus, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada (June16-17, 2005)
Prepared AAPN mid-term report for NSERC review committee
Faculty Lecturer
(September 2003December 2003)
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
Instructed a fourth-year undergraduate course entitled Digital Signal Processing
Laboratory
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
(Electrical Engineering)
McGill University,
Montreal, QC, Canada
September 2000
November 2004
Thesis: Physical Layer Loading Algorithms for Indoor Wireless Multicarrier Systems
Advisors: Professor Fabrice Labeau & Professor Peter Kabal
Master of Science
in Engineering (Electrical Engineering)
Queen s University,
Kingston, ON, Canada
January 1999
August 2000
Thesis: Performance of CDMA Systems using Digital Beamforming with Mutual Coupling and
Scattering Effects
Advisor: Professor Steven D. Blostein
Bachelor of Engineering
(Electrical Engineering), with distinction
McGill University,
Montreal, QC, Canada
September 1995
December 1998
Concentration: Communications and Signal Processing
Grants & Contracts
November 2009
April 2011: PI, BLISS: A Blind Spectrum Separation Approach for Jamming-
Resistant Communications, Office of Naval Research, $196,400.
September 2009 September 2010: PI, IEEE DySPAN 2010 Student Travel Grant, National
Science Foundation, $10,000.
January 2009 December 2011: PI, Collaborative Activities between The MathWorks and WPI
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The MathWorks.
May 2008
August 2009: PI, International Workshop on the Future of Mobile Wireless
Networking, National Science Foundation Subcontract via University of Kansas, $15,229.
May 2008
August 2008: PI, NeTS-WN: Quantification of Spectrum Availability for
Wireless Network Access, National Science Foundation Research Experience for
Undergraduates (REU) Supplement, $12,000.
September 2007 September 2009: PI, NeTS-WN: Quantification of Spectrum Availability
for Wireless Network Access, National Science Foundation, $79,127. [Acceptance Rate =
18%]
March 2007
March 2008: Co-PI, Robust Millimeter Wave Metropolitan Mesh Network,
Sprint-Nextel, $195,000.
September 2006 September 2008: Co-PI, International Workshop on Mobile Wireless
Technology and the Impacts on Future Internet, National Science Foundation, $72,155.
October 2005 September 2006: Co-PI, Adaptive Distributed Radio Open-Source Intelligent
Network, DARPA (Sub-contract through BBN Technologies), $324,488.
Awards & Scholarships
WPI ECE Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellow [2009] $25,000
WPI ECE Graduate Poster Competition 1st Place (MS Category) [2009, Research Advisor]
WPI Major Qualifying Project Competition Honorable Mention [2009, Project Advisor]
WPI Major Qualifying Project Competition Honorable Mention [2009, Project Advisor]
WPI Major Qualifying Project Competition 3rd Place [2008, Project Advisor]
McGill Alma Mater Student Travel Award [2003] $250
Motorola Foundation Graduate Award in ECE [2002] $3,500
Bourse de Doctorat en recherche du Fonds FCAR - B2 [2002-2003] $20,000/yr
McGill Majors Fellowship [2002, declined by recipient] $10,000
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - PGS A [2000-2002] $19,100/yr
Ontario Graduate Scholarship [2000, declined by recipient] $15,000/yr
Bourse de Maitrise en recherche du Fonds FCAR - B1 [1999-2000] $11,000/yr
Queen s Graduate Award [1999-2000] $6,000
Queen s Graduate Award [1999] $4,000
Courses Instructed
ECE 596B Graduate Seminars (Spring 2008, WPI)
ECE 5312 Modern Digital Communications (Spring 2010, WPI)
ECE 502 Analysis of Probabilistic Signals and Systems (Fall 2008 & 2009, WPI)
ECE 4305 Software-Defined Radio Systems and Analysis (D-Term 2010, WPI)
ECE 4304 Digital Communication Systems (C-Term 2008 & 2009, WPI)
ECSE
Refereed Journal Papers
Refereed Conference Proceedings
[I20] Alexander M. Wyglinski. In Search of Wireless Spectrum: Surveying and
Characterizing Unoccupied Radio Frequency Bandwidth. Centre for Advanced Systems &
Technologies in Communications (SytaCOM) Seminar Series (Montreal, QC, Canada), June 15,
2009.
[I19] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Wireless Spectrum: Measurement Studies, Occupancy
Characterization, and Opportunistic Access. IEEE Communications Society - Rochester
Chapter Seminar Series
(Rochester, NY, USA), June 9, 2009.
[I18] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Enabling Efficient Wireless Spectrum Utilization via
Cognitive Radio. University of New Mexico Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium
Series (Albuquerque, NM, USA), April 24, 2009.
[I17] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Agile Wireless Communications and Networking Employing
Cognitive Radio Systems. University of Connecticut Electrical and Computer
Engineering/Computer Science and Engineering Joint Colloquium Series
(Storrs, CT, USA),
March 27, 2009
.
[I16] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Intelligent Wireless Devices: Automating Network
Connectivity . Central Mass Roundtable Seminar for High School Educators
(Worcester, MA,
USA), September 18, 2008.
[I15] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Making Cognitive Radios Think: Genetic Algorithms and
Intelligent Wireless Systems . UMass Boston Department of Computer Science Seminar Series
(Boston, MA, USA), October 30, 2008.
[I14] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Agile High-Speed Wireless Transmission Techniques for
Software Defined Radio Systems . Collaborative International Software-Defined Radio
Workshop (Maynooth, Ireland), May 2008.
[I13] Alexander M. Wyglinski, Xinming Huang. Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA-based agile
Multicarrier Transceiver Design for Cognitive Radio Communications. US/DoD Finland/TEKES
Workshop on Wireless Networks
(Washington DC, USA), March 2008.
[I12] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Cognitive Radio To The Rescue! How The Wireless Frontier
Will Be Won. ECE Graduate Seminar Series
(Worcester, MA, USA), September 2007.
[I11] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Multiple Antennas and Multicarrier Modulation: Enhancing
Throughput and Error Robustness Through Adaptive Techniques. International Workshop on
Mobile Wireless Technology and the Impacts on Future Internet (Helsinki, Finland), May
2007.
[I10] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Cognitive Radio: A Flexible Wireless Platform for
Transceiver Optimization. International Workshop on Mobile Wireless Technology and the
Impacts on Future Internet (Helsinki, Finland), May 2007.
[I9] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Kansas University Agile Radio (KUAR) Project Overview.
International Workshop on Mobile Wireless Technology and the Impacts on Future Internet
(Helsinki, Finland), May 2007.
[I8] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Cognitive Radio Communications: Agile and Flexible Wireless
Access. International Workshop on Mobile Wireless Technology and the Impacts on Future
Internet (Stockholm, Sweden), May 2007.
[I7] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Agile Transmission Techniques for Cognitive Radio
Communications. Texas Instruments Seminar Series
(Dallas, TX, USA), March 2007.
[I6] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Spectrally Efficient and Frequency Agile Wireless
Communications. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering Seminar Series
(Worcester, MA, USA), February 2007.
[I5] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Agile Transmission Techniques for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Networks. Wright State University Department of Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
(Dayton, OH, USA), Feburary 2007.
[I4] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Broadband Access via Hybrid Fiber-Wireless Networking.
Nortel Wireless Forum 15 (Ottawa, ON, Canada), November 2006.
[I3] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Cognitive Radio Communications for Dynamic Spectrum
Access. IEEE Montreal Seminar Series (Montreal, QC, Canada), September 2006.
[I2] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Cognitive Radio Communications for Dynamic Spectrum
Access. The University of Kansas Information and Telecommunication Technology Center
All-Hands Meeting (Lawrence, KS, USA), September 2006.
[I1] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Throughput Enhancement Algorithms for Wireless Access
Transceivers. The University of Kansas Information and Telecommunication Technology
Center Seminar Series (Lawrence, KS, USA), April 2005.
Theses
[T2] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Physical Layer Loading Algorithms for Indoor Wireless
Multicarrier Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University (Montreal, QC, Canada), November
2004.
[T1] Alexander M. Wyglinski. Performance of CDMA Systems using Digital Beamforming with
Mutual Coupling and Scattering Effects. M.Sc. Thesis, Queen s University (Kingston, ON,
Canada), September 2000.
Technical Reports
[R4] Daniel DePardo, Joseph B. Evans, James A. Roberts, Victor R. Petty, Alexander M.
Wyglinski, Paul J. Kolodzy, and Michael J. Marcus. Observations of Potential Secondary
User Device Effects on Digital Television Receivers. Technical Report ITTC-FY2007-TR-44910
-
02, The University of Kansas
(Lawrence, KS, USA), May 2007.
[R3] Paul Kolodzy, Michael Marcus, Daniel DePardo, Joseph B. Evans, James A. Roberts,
Victor R. Petty, and Alexander M. Wyglinski. Quantifying the Impact of Unlicensed Devices
on Digital TV Receivers. Technical Report ITTC-FY20
07-44910-01, The University of Kansas
(Lawrence, KS, USA), January 2007.
[R2] Alexander M. Wyglinski and Steven D. Blostein. Mutual Coupling Effects on CDMA
Communications Systems Using Smart Antennas. Canadian Institute for Telecommunications
Research / Harris Corporation Technical Report, December 1999.
[R1] Brian A. Lepine, Brian P. Wallace, David S. Forsyth, Alex Wyglinski. Pulsed Eddy
Current Method Developments for Hidden Corrosion Detection in Aircraft Structures. Defence
Research and Development Canada Technical Report, Report # DCIEM-98-P-79, 13 Pgs.,
September 1998.
Non-Refereed Papers/Posters/Abstracts
[P6] Michael J. Leferman, Alexander M. Wyglinski. Taming Software-Defined Radio: A
Professional Service (Internal/External)
Co-Director, WPI Limerick Project Center (January 2008- present)
Chair, WPI Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Program Committee
(
August 2008
-August 2009
)
Chair,
WPI Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Subcommittee
on the BS/MS
program (August 2007
-present
)
Faculty Advisor, WPI Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering (December 2007-present)
Member, WPI Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Program Committee
(
August 2007
-May 2008, August 2009 - present)
Organizer, WPI ECE Distinguished Speaker Graduate Seminar (Fall 2007)
Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Cognitive Radio
Communications and Networks
(April 2008
)
Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Cognitive Radios for Dynamic
Spectrum Access (May 2007
)
Guest Editor, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on
Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications
(July 2007-present
)
Editorial Board Member, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2005-present
)
Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine (2007-present
)
Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Radio
Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, Orlando, FL, USA (August 2007)
Tutorial Co-Chair, 2008 IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access
Networks (DySPAN), Chicago, IL, USA (October 2008)
Student Travel Grant Chair, 2010 IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum
Access Networks (DySPAN), Singapore (April 2010)
Track Chair, 2009 IEEE Military Communications Conference, Boston, MA, USA (October 2009)
Track Chair, 2008 IEEE Military Communications Conference, San Diego, CA, USA (Nov. 2008)
Track Chair, 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA (September
2007)
Track Chair, 64th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada (Sept. 2006)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Wireless Communications Symposium, Kyoto, Japan (June 2011)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 ICST BIONETICS, Boston, MA, USA (December 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Selected Areas in Communications Symposium, Miami, FL, USA (November 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Wireless Communications Symposium, Miami, FL, USA (November 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC-
Fall), Ottawa, Canada (September 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Wireless Communications Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa (June 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Wireless Networking Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa (June 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring
(VTC-Spring), Taipei, Taiwan (April 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic
Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Singapore (April 2010)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Wireless Communications Symposium, Honolulu, HI, USA (November 2009)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Wireless Networking Symposium, Honolulu, HI, USA (November 2009)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, Honolulu, HI, USA (November 2009)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 International Conference on Wireless Algorithms,
Systems, and Applications, Boston, MA, USA (August 2009).
Technical Program Committee Member, 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio
Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM), Hannover, Germany (June 2009).
Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Workshop in Cognitive Radio Networking, Dresden, Germany (June 2009)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Wireless Communications Symposium, Dresden, Germany (June 2009)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Wireless Networking Symposium, Dresden, Germany (June 2009)
Technical Program Committee Member, European Wireless Conference 2009, Aalborg, Denmark
(May 2009)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic
Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Chicago, IL, USA (October 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 17th International Conference on Computer,
Communications, and Networks -- Cognitive Radio Networks Track, St. Thomas, US Virgin
Islands (August 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, European Wireless Conference 2008, Prague, Czech
Republic (June 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on
Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks -- Software Defined Radio Workshop,
San Francisco, CA, USA (June 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Wireless Communications Symposium, Beijing, China (June 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Communication Theory Symposium, Beijing, China (June 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Towards Cognition in Wireless Networks Workshop, Beijing, China (June 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 67th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Transceiver Technologies Track, Singapore (May 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Radio
Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, Singapore (May 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking
Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA (March 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking
Conference Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA (January 2008)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications,
Computers, and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada (September 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Wireless Communications Symposium, Washington DC, USA (November 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous
Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine 2007) First
International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Networks (CWNets), Vancouver, BC, Canada
(August 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic
Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Dublin, Ireland (April 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Wireless Communications Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (June 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Towards Cognition in Wireless Networks Workshop, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (June 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking
Conference, Hong Kong, China (March 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking
Conference Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA (January 2007)
Technical Program Committee Member, 2006 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, San
Francisco, CA, USA (November 2006)
Session Chair, 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks
and Communications, Hannover, Germany (June 2009)
Session Chair, 2008 IEEE Military Communications Conference, San Diego, CA, USA (November
2008)
Session Chair, 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las
Vegas, NV, USA (April 2008)
Session Co-Organizer/Co-Chair, 2007 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Special
Session on Cognitive Radios, Washington DC, USA (November 2007)
Session Chair, 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA (Sept. 2007)
Session Chair, 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks
and Communications, Orlando, FL, USA (August 2007)
Session Chair, 64th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada (Sept.
2006)
Session Chair, 62nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dallas, TX, USA (September
2005)
Session Chair, 60th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Sept.
2004)
Session Chair, Motorola Scientific Advisory Board Associates Annual Meeting, Montreal,
QC, Canada (April 2004)
Chief Judge, Student Poster Competition - Agile All-Photonic Networks (AAPN) Annual
Research Review, Ottawa, ON, USA (June 2006)
Judge, GRAD 2009 Graduate Student Poster Competition, Worcester, MA, USA (April 2009)
Judge, GRAD 2008 Graduate Student Poster Competition, Worcester, MA, USA (March 2008)
Reviewer for the following journals:
Proceedings of the IEEE
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
IEE Proceedings on Communications
IEE Electronic Letters
IEEE Communication Letters
IEEE Communications Magazine
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics on Signal Processing
ETRI Journal
IET Communications
Reviewer for the following conferences:
IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009
IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks 2008
International Conference on Computer, Communications, and Networks 2008
International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications
2008
European Wireless 2008
IEEE International Conference on Communications 2008
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 (Spring)
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2008
2007 International
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