Current Researchers
Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Teheran University, Iran, in 1976, the M.Eng. degree from University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, UK, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College, University of London, UK, in 1981.
From 1981 to 1989 he was with the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran. From 1989 to 2000 he was with the National University of Singapore. Since August 2000, he has been with the University of Utah where he is now a professor and Associate Chair of the department.
He is an expert in the general area of signal processing. His current scientific interests are adaptive filters, multicarrier communications, detection techniques for space-time coded systems, cognitive radio, and signal processing applications to optical devices. In the past, he has worked and has made significant contribution to areas of adaptive filters theory, acoustic echo cancellation, magnetic/optical recoding, and digital subscriber line technologies. He is the author of the books "Adaptive Filters: theory and applications", John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2nd Edition, 2013, and “Signal Processing Techniques for Software Radios”, self published at Lulu publishing house, 2009, 2nd Edition, 2010.
Dr. Farhang-Boroujeny received the UNESCO Regional Office of Science and Technology for South and Central Asia Young Scientists Award in 1987. He served as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing from July 2002 to July 2005, and as an associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters from April 2008 to March 2010. He has also been involved in various IEEE activities, including the chairmanship of the Signal Processing/Communications chapter of IEEE of Utah in 2004 and 2005.
Hamed Hosseiny received the B.S. in electrical engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2013 and the M.S. in Electrical Engineering-Communication System-Network from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2016. Since 2018, he has been working as a research assistant in the Wireless Communications Lab pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Utah, USA. His research interests include Wireless Communications, Multicarrier Communications, Digital Signal Processing, and Cellular Networks.
Brandon Hunt received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering degree from Montana Technological University in 2019. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Behrouz Farhang. His research interests include signal processing, robust telecommunication, and cognitive radio.
Stephen Jenkins received the A.A.S. in Electronic Systems from Idaho State University in 2002, received a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology and a B.S. in Computer Science from Weber State University in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and received the M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2015. From 2002 to 2012, he worked for JT3 as a software developer. Since 2012 he has been working at L3Harris as a software engineer focusing on networking software, machine learning solutions for routing in wireless communications networks, and software defined networking solutions. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. at the University of Utah in the area of wireless communications, focusing on multi-access techniques and detection methods for 5G/6G wireless systems.
Brian received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2021. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in the area of wireless communications. His research interests include filter bank multi-carrier waveforms, digital signal processing, and machine learning.
Aaron Pettit received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University in 2019, and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2022. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. from the University of Utah under Dr. Behrouz Farhang. Research interests include signal processing, cognitive radio, and physical layer security.
Dallin Hansen received his Honors B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2022. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree under the supervision of Dr. Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny. His research is primarily focused on developing the next generation of robust, high-frequency waveforms and transceiver systems suitable for harsh environmental conditions.
Post-Doc
David B. Haab received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2019 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2021 from the University of Utah. Since 2017, he has been working as a research assistant in the Wireless Communications Lab, working in conjunction with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to develop next-generation radio systems. His research interests include cognitive radio, high frequency (HF) skywave communications, multicarrier communications, spread-spectrum waveforms, and software-defined radio (SDR) implementation.
Graduated Researchers
Brent received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah in 2002 and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah in 2022. His research focused on cyclic-prefixed single carrier modulation (CP-SCM) for massive MIMO scenarios, including resource allocation, interference avoidance, and secondary network applications. From 2003 to 2012, he worked for the Boeing Company in Southern California as a digital communications engineer. Since 2012, he has been working for L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Austin received his B.S. and his M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2019 and 2021, respectively. His research interests include non-contiguous spread spectrum waveforms and applications of Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) in 5G and beyond. As of 2021, Austin works full-time at L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City, Utah.