Faculty

Graduate Students

Faculty

Dr. Ahmad Safaai-Jazi

Ph.D.: McGill University, 1978.
Research Interests: Fiber Optics & Applied Electromagnetics.
Email: ajazi@vt.edu

Dr. Charles Bostian

Ph.D.: North Carolina State, 1967.
Research Interests: Propagation, satellite communications
Email: bostian@vt.edu

Dr. Dennis Sweeney

Ph.D.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992.
Research Interests: RF Design.
Email: dsweeney@vt.edu

Dr. Dong Ha

Ph.D.: University of Iowa, 1986.
Research Interests: VLSI design for wireless communications and digital signal processing.
Email: ha@vt.edu

Dr. Jeffrey Reed

Ph.D.: University of California, Davis, 1984.
Research Interests: DSP-based Receivers, Interference Rejection, Communication Simulation, Smart Antennas, Communication Simulation Planning, Location Technology.
Email: reedjh@vt.edu

Dr. R. Michael Buehrer

Ph.D.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996.
Research Interests: Wireless Communications, Code Division Multiple Access, Spread-Spectrum, Cellular and Personal Communications, Multiuser Detection, Adaptive (Intelligent) Antennas, Space-Time Coding, Simulation of Communications Systems, Radio Resource Control, Ultra Wideband.
Email: buehrer@vt.edu

Dr. William A Davis

Ph.D.: University of Illinois, 1974.
Reseach Interests: Antennas, Electromagnetic Fields, Microwave Measurements, Communications Circuits, Radio Engineering, Wireless Applications.
Email: wadavis@vt.edu

Graduate Students

Ali Mugaibel

Ph.D. Candidate: Virginia Tech.
Advisor: Dr. Siedki Riad, Dr. B. D. Woerner.
Research Area: Time Domain Analysis and measurement
Email: mugaibel@vt.edu

David McKinstry

M.S. Candidate: Virginia Tech.
Advisor: Dr. R. M. Buehrer.
Research Area: Receiver structures in UWB, Coding and modulation schemes in UWB.
Email: dmckinst@vt.edu

Jason Ballagh

M.S. Candidate: Virginia Tech.
Advisor: Dr. Dennis Sweeney.
Research Area: Hardware Design.
Email: jballag@vt.edu

Joseph Noronha

M.S. Candidate: Virginia Tech.
Advisor: Dr. Dennis Sweeney.
Research Area: Hardware design.
Email: jnoronha@vt.edu

Nishant Kumar

M.S. Candidate: Virginia Tech.
Advisor: Dr. R. M. Buehrer.
Research Area: MAC Layer protocols over UWB, Space Time Coding.
Email: nishant@vt.edu