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Howard Huang *95

Howard Huang
Alcatel-Lucent
791 Holmdel Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA

Ph.D: Electrical Engineering, 1995

Thesis: Combined Multipath Processing, Array Procesing, and Multiuser Detection for DS-CDMA Channels

Advisor: Stuart Schwartz

Biography

Howard Huang was born in Houston, Texas in 1969. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1995. Since then, he has been a researcher at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent in Holmdel, New Jersey, currently as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Broadband and Wireless Access Center.

Howard's current research interests are in wireless communication theory and multiple antenna (MIMO) systems. He has been active in the standardization of multiple antenna technologies for next-generation cellular standards (3GPP), and he is currently writing a book with Constantinos Papadias on multiuser MIMO theory and applications, to be published in 2008. Howard holds over a dozen patents and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.