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About us

We are a group of about a dozen people in the ECE Dept. at the University of Minnesota with expertise and focus on Signal Processing (SP) research and development projects In Networking (N) and Communication (COM) systems. On par with the dramatic upswing in modern telecommunications and information technology worldwide, our SPinCOM team contributes enthusiastically its "basic research and education bits" towards realizing the dream of "communicating with anyone, anywhere, anytime."

The group consists of one full-time and nominally two visiting faculty members, additional affiliated ECE faculty, two postdoctoral researchers, three undergraduate and MSc students, and ten PhD students working on their theses. Historically, SPinCOM started with the SPIRIT group at the Univ. of Virginia (1987-1998) that performed research in applications and algorithms for signal processing, estimation and detection theory, time-series analysis, and system identification (specific subjects included (poly) spectral analysis, wavelets, cyclostationary, and non-Gaussian signal processing with applications to SAR, sonar, array, and image processing). More than a dozen undergraduate theses, 12 MSc theses, and 9 PhD theses were completed on these subjects. Our past members now hold positions in academia, federal government labs, and the communications industry.

Since 1994, the spirit and now SPinCOM group has shifted emphasis towards wireless, mobile telecommunications and networking research. Current topics include complex-field, space-time and network coding, multicarrier, cooperative wireless communications, cognitive radios, cross-layer designs, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor networks. Research funding comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Army Research Office (ARO), the Army's Research Lab (ARL), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR); we are thankful to all our sponsors for their support through the years.

We invite you to visit our people web-pages, check our publications, and if your plans bring you close to our neck of the woods, please drop by to say Hi and if interested, join also our weekly seminar series. Welcome to our home-page!

Georgios B. Giannakis, Endowed ADC Chair Prof. on Wireless Telecommunications