Author: Tolga M. Duman

Tolga M. Duman received the B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1993, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northeastern University, Boston, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since August 1998, he has been with the electrical Engineering Department of Arizona State University, first as an Assistant Professor (1998-2004), and currently as an Associate Professor. He spent the 2004-05 academic year as a visiting associate professor at Bilkent University in Turkey. Dr. Duman”s current research interests are in digital communications, wireless and mobile communications, MIMO systems, channel coding, underwater acoustic communications, and applications of coding to wireless and recording channels. Dr. Duman is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and IEEE Third Millennium medal. He is a senior member of IEEE, and an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on communications. Ali Ghrayeb received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, in May 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He holds a Concordia Research Chair in High-Speed Wireless Communications. His research interests are in wireless and mobile communications, wireless networks, and coding and signal processing for data transmission and storage. He has co-instructed technical tutorials and short courses on coding for MIMO Systems and on Synchronization for WCDMA Systems at several major IEEE conferences. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal.