(June 2015) Part of a new NSF Large grant on “Practical Foundations for Massive MIMO.”
(April 2015) Mayank’s research on distancePPG for non-contact accurate measurement of vital signs, is featured in many media outlets. See the original Rice article here .
(May 2015) Keynote at WinMee in Mumbai, India on “Massive MIMO: Theory and Experiments”.
(October 2014) Adam Samaniego presented mobileVision at Wireless Health 2014.
(August 2014) New NSF MRI will fund a novel mHealth device platform, ScaleMed, for researchers. News release here
(July – August 2014) Gaurav Patel, Tony Elam and I attended NSF i-Corps. First team from Rice to do so. Great experience !
(Jan 2014) Elevated to IEEE Fellow status.
(Jan 2014) Achaleshwar Sahai defended his PhD. Received Best ECE PhD Thesis Award. Headed to Qualcomm.
(Nov 2013) I will be serving as a TPC co-chair for ACM Mobicom 2014.
(May 2012) Congrats ! Melissa Duarte, Chris Hunter and David Kao graduate with PhDs. Also Congrats to Melissa for Best ECE Dissertation Award and Chris for being the featured speaker on Corporate Affiliates Day (April 2012).
A team of our undergrads win the best demo prize in mHealthSys 2011. Their paper was a finalist for the best paper award.
Rice team finishes third in the worldwide Microsoft competition, using our open-source mobile spirometer.
(Fall 2010) Patrick Murphy defended his PhD. Patrick designed major pieces of WARP as part of his MS. For his PhD, he designed, implemented and experimentally studied the first real-time non-orthogonal amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward cooperative system. See his PhD dissertation at the WARP website. Patrick plans to continue growing his startup, Mango Communications, which is a WARP spinoff.