Professor Upamanyu Madhow
Professor of ECE
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor Upamanyu MadhowProfessor of ECE |
Welcome to my ECE home page! My research is focused on ideas, architectures and algorithms for next generation wireless communication and sensor networks. This page is now mainly devoted to my teaching activities. For a brief profile of me, visit my page at the College of Engineering. For more detailed information on my research, visit the home page for my research group, the Wireless Communication and Sensornets Lab. |
At the undergraduate level, I teach signals and systems (ECE 130A),
probability/random processes (ECE 140), analog communication (ECE
146A) and digital communication (ECE 146B). At the graduate
level, I teach a two-course sequence in digital communication (ECE
243A and 243B), detection and estimation (ECE 240A). I also
occasionally teach a course on communication networks. |
The textbook Fundamentals of Digital Communication is to be published by Cambridge University Press in February 2008. This book is an outgrowth of the graduate courses on digital communication that I first started teaching at the University of Illinois in the mid-90s, and then refined at UCSB. The objective is to provide a lecture-style, "just in time" exposition that brings the reader to the cutting edge of research and development in modern communication systems. I have attempted to first establish a firm grounding in classical concepts of modulation and demodulation, and then build on these to introduce advanced concepts in synchronization, noncoherent communication, channel equalization, information theory, channel coding and wireless communication. Turbo and LDPC codes are covered in sufficient detail and clarity to enable hands-on implementation and performance evaluation. Typos and Corrections (updated June 2008) You are invited to send your comments to me at madhow AT ece DOT ucsb
DOT edu. |
Upamanyu Madhow is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His prior appointments include serving as a faculty in the ECE Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and as a research scientist at Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia). He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1985. He received the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Dr. Madhow's research interests are in wireless communication, sensor networks and data hiding. Dr. Madhow is a Fellow of the IEEE, and recipient of the NSF CAREER award. He has served as Associate Editor for Spread Spectrum for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and as Associate Editor for Detection and Estimation for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He is a highly cited researcher, and is among the top 10 most cited authors in ``computer science'' over the period 1993-2003, according to the ISI Web of Science. He is the author of the textbook, Fundamentals of Digital Communication, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.
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