DRAGAN SAMARDZIJA
RESUME
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Home
Address
Tel/Fax: (732)-393-1472 Email: dragan.samardzija@ieee.org |
Office
Address
Email: dragan@bell-labs.com |
RELEVANT
QUALIFICATIONS
· Nine years of experience in
communication and electronic industry and research
· Industrial research (Bell
Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
· Experimental and theoretical
work in the field of detection, estimation, channel characteristics and
information theory for multiple antenna wireless systems (MIMO/BLAST)
· Radio system performance
analysis, planning and optimization
· Academic research (
· Three years of relevant
academic research and teaching experience
· Realization of prototypes
and commercial products (Bell Labs and Micronas)
· Advanced skills acquired
through numerous system analysis, concept developments, experiments and real-time
implementations of:
· Multiple antenna and
multiuser wireless systems
· Multiuser detection and
interference cancellations for wireless CDMA systems
· Adaptive and blind
techniques: equalization and interference mitigation
· Speech and audio processing
· Digital
communications and signal processing for telephone lines
· Strong implementation skills
on different DSP, FPGA and RF platforms
· Detailed knowledge of
wireless communication standards: 3G (UMTS and HSDPA) and WiMAX
· Detailed knowledge of wireless
channel propagation characteristics and channel sounder realizations
· Knowledge of low bit rate
speech coding and phone-line digital modem standards
· Referenced peer-reviewed
journal and conference publications
· Proven ability to conduct
research both independently and as a part of a team
· Teachings experience in
topics on wireless communications and standards
· Proven presentation
abilities for industrial and academic purposes
EDUCATION
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Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering |
May 2004 Thesis:
“Multiple Antenna Wireless Systems and |
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MS
in Electrical Engineering |
June 2000 G.P.A.
4.0/4.0 Thesis:
“Blind Interference Cancellation Schemes for DS-CDMA Systems” |
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BS
in Electronics and Telecommunications |
October
1996 G.P.A.
9.28 (out of 10.00) - top 3% |
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Member of Technical Staff,
June 2000-Present
Wireless Research
Laboratory,
· MIMO/BLAST
project (theory): detection, estimation and information theoretic aspects of
multiple antenna wireless systems
· MIMO/BLAST project (practice): chief
architect/designer of MIMO/BLAST and NetworkMIMO testbed
· Propagation measurement techniques for spatial and temporal properties of wireless channels
(externally funded project by the DARPA)
· Real-time
prototyping (DSP, FPGA and RF), design and implementation of physical and
MAC layer algorithms (demonstration of MIMO techniques for
3G UMTS and HSDPA)
· Fourth
generation intelligent transparent networks enhanced through space-time systems
(externally funded by the European Union)
Research Assistant, January 1999 - June 2000
Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB),
· Design, and performance
evaluation of statistical signal processing algorithms for CDMA systems
· Software radio on DSP and
FPGA platforms
· Blind interference
cancellation (supported
by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology under the
Research Assistant, November 1996 - January 1999
Department of Electrical Engineering,
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Research on design, simulation and performance evaluation of audio
compression, low bit rate speech coders (joint work with
·
Real-time implementation on various DSP platforms
· Telephone-line QAM modem
(DSP implementation)
· Video coder (ITU-T Rec.
H.261, PC-based software implementation)
· ISDN LT and NT (hardware
implementation)
HONORS
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· As a member of the BLAST
Project Team, a recipient of the 2002 Bell Labs President's Award
· Assistantship at WINLAB,
Rutgers, the
· National Fellowship for
Talented Students,
GRANTS
· "GOALI: MIMO Techniques
for Remote Sensing of Physiological Motion", granted by National Science
Foundation, December 2004, collaboration between
· “High
Performance Cognitive Radio Platform with Integrated Physical and Network Layer
Capabilities”,
granted by National Science Foundation, September 2004, collaboration between
WINLAB (Rutgers University), Bell Labs, and Georgia Institute of Technology
· “Fourth
Generation Intelligent Transparent Networks Enhanced through Space-time Systems
(FITNESS)”, granted by the European Union Information Society
Technologies, 2001-2003, collaboration between Bell Labs, Motorola and a number
of European universities
MENTORING/ADVISING
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· Omer Ileri, internship at
Bell Labs, June 2005 - September 2005
· Nabil Muhamed, internship at
Bell Labs, December 2002 - March 2003
SERVICES
· Reviewer
for IEEE journals and conferences (Transactions on Communications, Transactions
on Wireless Communications, Information Theory, Signal Processing, Vehicular
Technology, Selected Areas in Communications)
· Session
chairman, “Wireless Communications Systems” Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2001, The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, March 2001
IMPLEMENTATION
SKILLS
· Various radio frequency (RF)
experimental, laboratory and development systems and instruments
· Languages - Advanced
skills: C, VHDL, MATLAB
- Familiar with: C++, Motorola 56xxx
assembly, TI's TMS320C4x assembly and Pentium
· FPGA platforms: Xilinx
Virtex
· DSP platforms: Motorola
56xxx, Intermetall MASC 3500, Texas Instrument's TMS320C4x and TMS320C6xx
· Development tools and
systems: Xilinx ISE, TI's Code Composer
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:
1. J. Ling, D. Chizhik, D. Samardzija, R. Valenzuela,
“Peer-to-Peer MIMO Radio Channel Measurements in a Rural Area”,
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, September 2007
2. D. Samardzija, N. Mandayam, "Impact of Pilot
Design on Achievable Data Rates in Multiple Antenna Multiuser TDD
Systems", IEEE JSAC, Optimization of MIMO Transceivers, September 2007
3. D. Samardzija, N. Mandayam, "Unquantized and
Uncoded
4. D. Samardzija,
5. D. Samardzija, A. Lozano, C. Papadias, "Design & Experimental Validation of MIMO
Multiuser Detection for Downlink Packet Data", EURASIP Journal on
Applied Signal Processing, July 2005
6. D. Samardzija,
7. A. Burg, E. Beck, D. Samardzija, M. Rupp, et al.,
"Prototype Experience for MIMO BLAST over Third Generation Wireless
System", IEEE JSAC on MIMO Systems and Applications, April 2003
8. D. Samardzija, C. Papadias, R. Valenzuela,
"Experimental Evaluation of Unsupervised Channel Deconvolution for
Wireless Multiple-Transmitter/Multiple-Receiver Systems", Electronics
Letters IEE, September 2002
9. D. Samardzija, N. Mandayam,
10. D. Samardzija, N. Mandayam,
Conference Publications: more than 20 conference
publications
REFERENCES
AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST