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Summary

Award-winning researcher, educator, and academic leader in wireless systems and radio spectrum access; wireless patent consultant and testifying expert.

Recent Highlights

• First FCC comment that I led with colleagues from ND Wireless and SpectrumX, October 2023.
• First TPRC paper developed through SpectrumX collaborations, September 2023.
• Provided oral and written comments to the Second NTIA Listening Sesssion on the National Spectrum Strategy, which we hosted through SpectrumX at the University of Notre Dame, April 2023.
• NTIA Institute for Telecommunication Sciences Liaison created to foster collaboration between key government lab and academia around the radio spectrum, February 2023.

• Keynote Presentation at GRCon 2022 on leveraging software-defined radio for research, teaching, and collaborations, September, 2022.
• Founding Member of the ATIS NextG Alliance Research Council, August, 2022
• Bridging the Digital Divide in collaboration with the City of South Bend Schools, City of South Bend, enFocus, Hayes Tower, and Choicelight, August 2022.
• NSF and ND press releases announcing that SpectrumX has been funded as the first NSF Spectrum Innovation Center, September 2021.
• Personal story on becoming an electrical engineer, professor, and mentor, June 2021.
• Nik Kleber submitted his PhD thesis on The Design of Widespread Spectrum Monitoring Systems, April 2021.

Research Interests

• Wireless System Modeling and Analysis (specialty)
  • Probabilistic and Baseband-Equivalent Modeling
  • Signal Processing and Coding Algorithms
  • Multiaccess and Link Level Protocols
  • Spectrum Sharing and Coexistence Mechanisms
  • Information Theory
• Radio Hardware and Software Design (collaborative)
  • PHY and MAC Layers
  • Evaluation Boards
  • Software-Defined Radio
• Experimental Measurements and Data Collection (collaborative)
  • Experiment Design
  • Archival Datasets
  • Machine Learning