Experience

Assistant Professor (1995 - 2000); Associate Professor (2000 - 2005); Professor (2005 - )
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Teaching:
  • Member of the 1998-1999 Georgia Tech CETL Teaching Fellows.
  • ECE 2025 "Introduction to Signal Processing", fall 1999, spring 2003, fall 2003, spring 2005, spring 2006.
  • EE 2200 "Introduction to Discrete Systems", fall 1998.
  • ECE 3075 "Random Signals", fall 2000, fall 2001, fall 2002.
  • EE 3340 "Random Signals and Noise", fall 1995, winter 1996, fall 1996, spring 1997.
  • EE 4078 "Digital Signal Processing", spring 1996, winter 1997, spring 1999.
  • EE 4170 "DSP Laboratory", winter 1997, spring 1997, summer 1997, fall 1997, winter 1998.
  • ECE 4270 "Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing", spring 2000.
  • ECE 6500 "Fourier Techniques and Signal Analysis", fall 2007
  • ECE 6542 "Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling", fall 2008
  • EE 8342 "Theory and Applications of Higher-Order and Cyclic statistics in Signal Processing", fall 1996.

• Research:
  • Crest factor reduction for forward link CDMA signals
  • Peak-to-average power ratio reduction for OFDM signals
  • DSP based predistortion linearization of power amplifiers for wireless applications
  • Investigation of memory effects in nonlinear power amplifiers
  • Communication channel estimation and equalization
  • Development of tracking microscopy software for biology labs; bio-signal analysis; point process modeling
  • Genomic signal processing
  • Blind deconvolution of seismic signals

• Administration:
  • Director, Georgia Tech - Shanghai, 2006-
  • Co-Director, Georgia Tech Shanghai Summer Program, 2005-2009
  • Co-Director, Georgia Tech China Summer Program (formerly Shanghai Summer Program), 2010-
  • Co-Director, Atlanta Summer Program, 2008-

• Service:
  • Professional society service
  • Chair, Georgia Tech - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Collaboration Working Committee, 2004-2006
  • Georgia Tech College of Engineering Dean's Faculty Advisory Council, 2003-present
  • Georgia Tech Strategic Planning, member of Core Contributors, 2009
  • Georgia Tech College of Engineering Strategic Planning Committee, 2005
  • Georgia Tech School of ECE Strategic Planning Committee, 2007
  • Georgia Tech College of Engineering Research Faculty Promotion Committee, 2005-2006
  • Georgia Tech Executive Board Committee on Multi-Campus Faculty Development, Governance, and Integration, 2005-2006
  • Graduate student committees (qualifier, proposal, defense): 86 as of 12/31/2006
  • Women in science and engineering: SWE and FutureScape

Visiting professor, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden, January - July 2001.

• Taught a PhD course "Theory and Applications of Higher-Order and Cyclic statistics in Signal Processing", Spring 2001.

Visiting Researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, June-August, 1995

• Ultrasound measurements and signal analysis of tissue nonlinear characteristics.

Research Assistant/Associate, University of Virginia, 1989-1995

• Conducted research in statistical signal and image processing.
• Experimented with magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy techniques at the Radiology Department, University of Virginia Hospital.
• Developed interactive MRI-STEAM imaging user interface on Siemens Magnetom 1.0 Tesla machine using FORTRAN and PARGEN.
• Helped with the organization of 1993 IEEE Workshop on Higher-order Statistics.

Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 1992-1993

• Lab-instructor for Microelectronic Circuits (EE 204L).
• Grader and assistant for TV course on EE 576 "Digital Signal Processing" (Outstanding GTA Award).