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

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

• Patent: Wireless Local Positioning System, WLPS, May 2003;
• 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

• EE4250: Communication Theory, Fall 2007;
  
• 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.
• EE4255/EE5525: Wireless Communications, Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Links

• Michigan Technological University (MTU)
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, MTU
• Wireless Local Positioning Lab, MTU
  
• Wireless Communications Research Group, ECE Dept., MTU
• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
• Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Positions for Graduate Students

Positions as Graduate Assistant (GA) for development of the Wireless Local Positioning System and Graduate Assistant (GA) for the  development of EE-based course: Introduction to Electrical Engineering for non Electrical Engineering majors.