Dr. Seyed Alireza (Reza) Zekavat

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI 49931
Phone: (906) 487 - 2071
Fax: (906) 487 - 2949
Email: rezaz@mtu.edu

Education

Ph.D.: Colorado State University
M.Sc.: Sharif University of Technology
B.Sc. Shiraz University

Research Interests

Research is conducted in the Wireless Communications Research Group (WCRG) on the following areas:

Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (DSA) - Spectrum sharing
OFDM Systems
Smart Antennas
Adaptive beam forming
Channel Modeling and Estimation

Publications, Books and Patent

Publications and Books list;

Graduate Students

Xiukui Li, PhD. Candidate, Research area: Wireless Resource Allocation;
Mohsen Pourkhaataoun, PhD. Candidate, Research areas: Time of Arrival Estimation;
Zhonghai Wang, PhD Candidate, Research areas: Data Fusion;
Wenjie Xu, Ph.D. candidate, Research Area: MIMO Channel and Capacity;
Irfan Ahmad, Ph.D. Candidate, Research Area, Detection and Estimation;
Imran Aslam, Ph.D. Candidate, Research Area, Channel Modeling;
Feng Yang, MS, Research on DOA - TOA and Beamforming;
Luke Mounsey, MS, Research on Engineering Education and Curriculum Development;
Chao Li, MS, Research on Multi-Antenna Channel Calibration;
Jie Tang, MS., Research on Channel Mesurement;

Undergraduate Students

Andrew Kolbus, Research area: FPGA programming and DOA Estimation Implementation;
Michael Roddewig, Research Area, FPGA programming;

Former Graduate Students

Jafar Pourrostam,. PhD. Graduated Fall 2007, Research area: Direction of Arrival Estimation;
Hui Tong, Ph.D. Graduated Summer 2007, Research areas: Smart Antennas, Beam Forming and MIMO Systems.
Hardeep Mehta, MS Graduated Summer 2006, Project: Wireless Resource Allocation;
Rajeev Kulkarni, MS, Graduated Summer 2005, Thesis: Dynamic Wireless Resource Allocation in Multi-vendor Environments: Performance Analysis in Code Divison Multiple Access (CDMA) Systems.
Peh Keong Teh, MS, Graduated Summer 2004, Thesis: Smart Antenna Beam Pattern Scanning: Study, Comparison and Development.

Courses

EE5527: Digital Communications, Fall 2008;
EE3160: Signals Systems and Control, Fall 2008;
EE4250: Communication Theory, Fall 2007, 2008;
EE5500: Statistical Signal Processing, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
EE5950: Signals and Systems Seminar, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008.
EE4255/EE5525: Wireless Communications, Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.