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My current research focuses are on:

Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networking
Coding Theory and its Applications
Sensor Network, Wireless Positioning, and Target Tracking

In the past, I have worked on a number of topics, in the general area of communications and signal processing, including:

Multiuser Communication
code design, CDMA, multi-carrier, frequency-hopping
Space-Time Coding for Wireless Systems
multi-antenna communications, diversity techniques, beamforming, limited feedback
Signal Processing for Communications
channel estimation, equalization, OFDM

Research Group: 

Wireless Communications Research Laboratory, director
Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) Laboratory, co-director

Sponsors: 

Office of Naval Research, (2007 Young Investigator Award)
National Science Foundation

Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Visitors:

   Mr. Christian Berger (Ph.D. student, joint with Peter Willett)
   Ms. Sora Choi (Ph.D. student, joint with Peter Willett)
   Mr. Xiao Zhou (M.S. student)
   Dr. Jie Huang (Post-Doc, joint with Peter Willett)
   Mr. Jianzhong Huang (Ph.D. student, joint with Peter Willett)
   Mr. Xiufeng Song (Ph.D. student, joint with Peter Willett)
   Mr. Weian Chen (M.S./Ph.D. student, joint with Peter Willett)

Note: I plan to recruit two new Ph.D. students for Fall 2009.

Students Graduated/to Graduate:

   Mr. Baosheng Li (Ph.D., expected Dec. 2008)
   Mr. Sean Mason (M.S., expected Dec. 2008, joint with Peter Willett)
   Mr. David Crouse (M.S. August 2008, joint with Peter Willett)

Undergraduate Students:

Senior design team 1. (Spring06-Fall06)
Sean Mason, Robert Anstett, and Nicoletti Anicette
Senior Design Project: Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Modem
(Conference paper, NCUR07 | one-page description of the demonstration.)

Senior design team 2. (Spring07-Fall07)
Roy Behymer, Mary Hoyer, and Krenar Jusufi
Senior Design Project: An Underwater Acoustic Relay Network with Three Nodes
(Conference paper, NCUR08)

Senior design team 3. (Fall07-Spring08)
Sanjiv Dinakar, Ajay Patel, Jamal Roache
Senior Design Project: A Hybrid DSP-FPGA Implementation of Real-Time Underwater Acoustic Modem

Senior design team 4. (Spring08-Fall08)
Juny Thengumthyil, Jason Thomas, Abbas Zaidi
Senior Design Project: Prototyping and Real Time Testing of Underwater Acoustic Modem

Senior design team 5. (Fall08-Spring09)
Patrick Carroll, Ryan McDermott, Sherwayne Gordon, John Botticello
Senior Design Project: Localization for underwater sensor networks

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