Robert Heath

Biography

Dr. Robert W. Heath Jr. joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State in August 2020. From 2002 to 2020, he was with the University of Texas at Austin where he was involved in the leadership of their wireless group. Dr. Heath is also President and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. His research has been extensively funded by industry and government.

Dr. Heath’s research interests include wireless communications cellular systems, public safety, and military networks, with recent applications to vehicular communication systems, 5G, and now 6G.

He has authored or co-authored several books including “Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication” (Prentice Hall, 2017), “Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications” (Prentice Hall, 2014) and “Foundations of MIMO Communication” (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Education

• Ph.D. 2002
  Electrical Engineering
  Stanford University
• Master's 1997
  Electrical Engineering
  University of Virginia, Charlottesville
• Bachelor's 1996
  Electrical Engineering
  University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Recent Publications

• Beam Training in mmWave Vehicular Systems: Machine Learning for Decoupling Beam Selection (2024)
• ADMM-based Solution for mm Wave UL Channel Estimation with One-bit ADCs via Sparsity Enforcing and Toeplitz Matrix Reconstruction (2023)
• Bandwidth Gain: the Missing Gain of Massive MIMO (2023)
• Call for Papers (2023)
• Dynamic Network-Assisted D2D-Aided Coded Distributed Learning (2023)
• Electromagnetic-based signal processing for arbitrary arrays (2023)
• End-to-end Full-Stack Drone Measurements: A Case Study Using AERPAW (2023)
• Energy-efficient tri-hybrid precoding with dynamic metasurface antennas (2023)
• Green Joint Communications and Sensing Employing Analog Multi-Beam Antenna Arrays (2023)
• Joint Relay Selection and Beam Management Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Millimeter Wave Vehicular Communication (2023)