Brian D. Woerner, leads an active team of graduate researchers in the field of wireless communication systems, with particular emphasis on signal processing techniques to enhance link level throughput and reliability. Areas of research expertise and specialization include multiple access techniques including Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), multiuser detection and interference cancellation, error correction techniques including turbo coding and processing, multi-antenna systems, position determination, and land mobile radio systems. In addition to his research activities, he has consistently made outstanding classroom teaching a top priority. He has taught seven different communications classes, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He frequently teaches Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP) courses which are broadcast by video to students throughout Virginia. Dr. Woerner received the 1999 College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Woerner received his B.S. degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN in 1986. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering Systems from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1987 and 1991, respectively. During his Ph.D. studies he was a recipient of the University of Michigan’s Benton Fellowship and Unisys Fellowship. He also holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Michigan’s Institute of Public Policy Studies, with an emphasis in telecommunications policy. Dr. Woerner joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in Fall 1991 and currently holds the rank of Full Professor and Associate Director of the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group.