Robert W. Heath - iCore Inaugural Workshop Speaker
Robert W. Heath, Jr. is a Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and a Member
of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. He is also the President and CEO of MIMO Wireless
Inc and Chief Innovation Officer at Kuma Signals LLC. His research interests include several aspects of
wireless communication and signal processing: limited feedback techniques, multihop networking, multiuser
and multicell MIMO, interference alignment, adaptive video transmission, manifold signal processing, and
millimeter wave communication techniques.He is the a former Chair of the IEEE COMSOC Communications
Technical Theory Committee. He was a technical co-chair for the 2007 Fall Vehicular Technology Conference,
general chair of the 2008 Communication Theory Workshop, general co-chair, technical co-chair and co-organizer
of the 2009 IEEE Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Workshop, local co-organizer for the 2009 IEEE
CAMSAP Conference, technical co-chair for the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, the
technical chair for the 2011 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, general chair for the
2013 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, founding general co-chair for the 2013 IEEE
GlobalSIP conference, and was technical co-chair for the 2014 IEEE GLOBECOM conference. He has been involved
in various IEEE service activities including being the lead guest editor for an IEEE Journal on Selected Topics
in Signal Processing special issue on Millimeter Wave communication. Prof. Heath is a recipient of the 2012
Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper award, a 2013 Signal Processing Society best paper award, the 2014
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing best paper award, and the 2014 Journal of Communications
and Networks best paper award. He is a licensed Amateur Radio Operator, a registered Professional Engineer
in Texas, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Talk Title: "Millimeter Wave MIMO Communication"
Abstract: Millimeter wave communication is coming to a wireless network near you. Because of the small antenna size and the need for array gain, array processing is important in millimeter wave communication systems. This presentation provides an overview of millimeter wave communication systems. Particular attention is paid to the ways that MIMO communication has played a role in the past and how it may play a role in the future, especially in cellular networks.