Author: Long Gao

Joydeep Acharya received his Ph D degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University in 2009. Currently he is a staff research engineer at Hitachi America”s Wireless Systems Research Lab (WSRL) where he is involved in physical layer research and standardization in LTE-Advanced. Previously, he had worked as a research consultant in GS Sanyal School of Telecommunications, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur on Physical Layer design of WCDMA. He has been participating in 3GPP RAN 1 and 2 meetings since 2009. He is the author of several IEEE conference and journal papers and inventor of several patents filed worldwide. His research topics include MIMO signal processing, base station coordination, massive MIMO and spectrum regulation and resource allocation for wireless systems. Long Gao received his B.S. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2003 and his M.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2006, both in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and joined Hitachi America, Ltd, Santa Clara, CA, in 2010. Since then, he has been involved in 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced standardization activities with focus on cooperative communication and heterogeneous networks. He has published several IEEE papers and submitted several technical contributions to 3GPP RAN1 conference. He has served as a TPC member in major IEEE conferences such as Globecom 2010-2013. He has presented tutorials on LTE-Advanced heterogeneous network in VTC 2012 and WCNC 2013. Sudhanshu Gaur has over 10 years of research and industry experience in the field of wireless communications. He is currently the Principal Research Engineer at Hitachi America”s Wireless System Research Lab (WSRL) where he leads LTE-Advanced standardization activities. Earlier he was also involved with IEEE 802.11aa standardization and contributed to Hitachi”s wireless HD video system which was demonstrated in CES 2008. Prior to joining Hitachi, he attended Georgia Institute of Technology for Ph D degree (2005) and received M.S and B.Tech degrees from Virginia Tech (2003) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2000), respectively. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, has authored several peer reviewed publications in wireless communications, and holds several patents.