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

• Multi-Armed Bandit for Link Configuration in Millimeter-Wave Networks: An Approach for Solving Sequential Decision-Making Problems (2023)
• A Lower-Bound for Variable-Length Source Coding in Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Control With Shared Randomness (2022)
• Achievable Rate With Antenna Size Constraint: Shannon Meets Chu and Bode (2022)
• Achievable Rate of Near-Field Communications Based on Physically Consistent Models (2022)
• Artificial Intelligence for Physical-Layer Design of MIMO Communications with One-Bit ADCs (2022)
• Coverage and Capacity of Terahertz Cellular Networks With Joint Transmission (2022)
• Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Scheduling for Multiband Massive MIMO (2022)
• Extending Uplink Coverage of mmWave and Terahertz Systems Through Joint Phase-Time Arrays (2022)
• InFocus: A Spatial Coding Technique to Mitigate Misfocus in Near-Field LoS Beamforming (2022)
• Integration of Radar Sensing into Communications with Asynchronous Transceivers (2022)