Kainam Thomas WONG

Kainam Thomas WONG

8 July, 1997

Kainam Thomas (Tom) WONG (U.S. Citizen)

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Research Interests:

• Sensor-Array Signal Processing --- Direction-Finding, Beamforming, Blind Calibration
• Smart antennas, Space-Time-Polarization Diversity in Wireless Communication & Radar
• CDMA Detector. TDMA Receiver. Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) Code Optimization.
• Signal Processing for Communications. Fading-Channel Wireless Communications
• Dual-Polarization Frequency Re-Use for Satellite Communications

Education:

Ph.D., E.E.Purdue University, West Lafayette12/96

M.S.E.E.Michigan State University, East Lansing3/90

B.S.E.E.University of Colorado, Boulder12/87

Professional Experience:

*Assistant Professor,from ‘98Chinese University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong

*Assistant Professor,‘98Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

*Sr. Professional Staff,‘96-’98Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab., USA

Developed next-generation satellite communications and radar systems.

*Research Assistant,‘94-’96Purdue Univ.,Sch. of Elect. & Comp. Engr., USA

*Manufacturing Engineer,‘90-’91General Motors Technical Center, Michigan, USA

Coordinated/supervised team design of auto-body computer-integrated assembly lines.

*Teaching Assistant,‘88-’89Michigan State Univ., Dept. of Elect. Engr., USA

Other Technical Activities:

* Contributor, inaugural edition (2000) of the CRC Dictionary of Pure & Applied Physics,

Author 70 articles for the Telecommunications section of above Dictionary.

* Member of Technical Program Committee for:

1999 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'99)

1999 IEEE Intl. Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing & Communication Systems

2000 European Communications Conference (EuroComm’00)

2000 Spring IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'00 Spring)

2000 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'00)

* Member of Organizing Committee for:

. 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS'00)

Symposium 2000 on Adaptive Signal Processing, Communications & Control.

* Peer Reviewer, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Engineering, IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar & Navigation, etc.

Journal & Conference Publications: 9 published/accepted IEEE journal papers.

Antenna Array Signal Processing:

(1a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Uni-Vector-Sensor ESPRIT for Multisource Azimuth, Elevation, and Polarization Estimation," IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 1467-1474, Oct. 1997.

(1b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Uni-Vector-Sensor ESPRIT for Multi-Source Azimuth-Elevation Angle Estimation," IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society Intl. Symp. 1996, pp. 1368-1371.

(2a) Wong & Zoltowski, “Closed-Form Direction-Finding & Polarization Estimation with Arbitrarily Spaced Electromagnetic Vector-Sensors at Unknown Locations,” accepted for publication in 4/2000 in IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation.

(2b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-Form Direction-Finding with Arbitrarily Spaced Electromagnetic Vector-Sensors at Unknown Locations," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, vol. 4, pp. 1949-1952, 1998.

(3a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Direction-Finding with Sparse Rectangular Dual-Size Spatial Invariance Arrays," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, p. 1320-1336, Oct. 1998.

(3b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Sparse Array Aperture Extension with Dual-Size Spatial Invariance for ESPRIT-Based Direction Finding," IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems, vol. 2, pp. 691-694, 1996.

(3c) Wong & Zoltowski, "Sparse Array Spatial Diversity with Dual-Size Spatial Invariances to Mitigate Fading-Channel Effects," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications, part 1, pp. 142-146, 1997.

(4a) Zoltowski & Wong, "ESPRIT-based 2D Direction Fidning with a Sparse Array of Electromagnetic Vector-Sensors," accepted by IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.

(4b) Wong & Zoltowski, "High Accuracy 2D Angle Estimation with Extended Aperture Vector Sensor Arrays," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, pp. 2789-2792, 1996.

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(5a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Self-Initiating MUSIC Direction Finding & Polarization estimation in Spatio-Polarizational Beamspace," in second-round review by IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation.

(5b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Polarization-Beamspace Self-Initiating MUSIC for Azimuth/Elevation Angle Estimation," IEE Radar'97 Conference, IEE Conf. Publication no. 449, pp. 328-333.

(6a) Zoltowski & Wong, "Closed-Form Eigenstructure-Based Direction Finding Using Arbitrary but Identical Subarrays on a Sparse Uniform Cartesian Array Grid," accepted for publication in 2000 in theIEEE Trans. Signal Processing.

(6b) Zoltowski & Wong "Polarization Diversity & Extended-Aperture Spatial Diversity to Mitigate Fading-channel Effects with a Sparse Array of Electric Dipoles or Magnetic Loops," IEEE Vehicular Technology International Conf., pp. 1163-1167, 1997.

(7a) Wong, Li & Zoltowski, "Root-MUSIC-Based Direction Finding & polarization Estimation with Diversely Oriented & Partly Colocated Electric Dipoles and/or Magnetic Loops," in first-round review by IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation.

(7b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Diversely Polarized Root-MUSIC for Azimuth-Elevation Angle-of-Arrival Estimation," IEEE Antennas & Propagation Soc. Intl. Symp., pp. 1352-1355, 1996.

(8) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-form Multi-dimensional Multi-invariance ESPRIT," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 3489-3492, 1997.

(9) Wong, "A Novel Closed-Form Azimuth/Elevation Angle and Polarization Estimation Technique Using Only Electric Dipole Triads or Only Magnetic Loop Triads with Arbitrary Unknown Spacings," IEEE International Conference on Circuits & Systems, vol. 3, pp. 207-210, 1999 & to submit to the IEEE Signal Processing Letters

(10) Wong, "Geolocation for Partially Polarized Electromagnetic Sources Using Multiple Sparsely and Uniformly Spaced Spatially Stretched Vector Sensors," IEEE International Conference on Circuits & Systems, vol. 3, pp. 170-174, 1999 & to submit to IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.

(11) Wong, "Blind Adaptive Interference Rejection Based on Doppler/Delay Diversity Between Desired Signal & Interferences/Clutters," IEEE National Radar Conf., pp. 355-360, 1998.

Underwater Acoustic Hydrophone Array Signal Processing:

(1a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Extended-Aperture Underwater Acoustic Multisource Azimuth/Elevation Direction-Finding Using Uniformly But Sparsely Spaced Vector Hydrophones," IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 659-672, Oct. 1997.

(1b) Wong & Zoltowski, “"ESPRIT-Based Extended-Aperture Source Localization Using Vector-Hydrophones," MTS/IEEE Oceans 96 Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1427-1432.

(2a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-Form Underwater Acoustic Direction-Finding with Arbitrarily Spaced Vector-Hydrophones at Unknown Locations," IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 566-575, July 1997.

(2b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-Form Underwater Acoustic Direction-Finding with Arbitrarily Spaced Vector-Hydrophones at Unknown Locations," IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits & Systems, vol. 4, pp. 2557-2560, 1997.

(3a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Root-MUSIC-Based Azimuth-Elevation Angle-of-Arrival Estimation with Uniformly Spaced but Arbitrarily Oriented Velocity Hydrophones," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 3250-3260, Dec. 1999.

(3b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Source Localization by 2-D Root-MUSIC with “Scalar triads” of Velocity-Hydrophones," IEEE Midwest Sym. on Circuits & Systems, vol. 2, pp. 677-680, ’96

(4a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Self-Initiating MUSIC-Based Source Localization in Underwater Acoustic Particle Velocity Beamspace," accepted for publication in 2000 in the IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering .

(4b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Self-Initiating velocity-Field Beamspace MUSIC for Underwater Acoustic Direction-Finding with Irregularly Spaced Vector-Hydrophones," IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits & Systems, vol. 4, pp. 2553-2556, 1997.

(5) K. T. Wong & M. D. Zoltowski, "Orthogonal Velocity-Hydrophone ESPRIT for Sonar Source Localization," MTS/IEEE Oceans 96 Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1307-1312 & to be submitted to the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.

(6) Wong, "Adaptive Source Localization and Blind Beamforming for Underwater Acoustic Wideband Fast Frequency-Hop Signals of Unknown Hop Sequence and Unknown Arrival Angles Using a Vector-Hydrophone," published in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 1999.

(7) Wong & Chi, “Beam-Pattern of an Underwater Acoustic Vector Hydrophone,” submitted to IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering.

Signal Processing for Communications:

(1a) Wong, "Blind Adaptive Geolocation for Multiple Frequency-Hopping Signals of Unknown Hopping Sequences," IEEE International Conf. on Communications, vol. 2, pp. 758-762, 1998 and in second-round review by the IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems.

(1a) Wong, "Blind Adaptive Geolocation for Multiple Frequency-Hopping Signals of Unknown Hopping Sequences," IEEE International Conf. on Communications, vol. 2, pp. 758-762, 1998.

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(2a) Wong, "Novel Pulse-Diverse Radar/Sonar Waveforms," IEEE National Radar Conference, pp. 105-110, 1998.

(2b) Wong & Chung, “Design of Pulse-Diverse Waveform for Optimum Ambiguity Distribution,” accepted by IEEE International Radar Conference 2000.

(3) Wong & Lai, “Inexpensive Upgrade of Antenna-Switching Cellular Base-Station Receivers for Uplink/Downlink Beamforming using a Magnetic-Loop pair or a Loop/Dipole Triad,” in first-round review by IEEE Trans. Communications.

(4) Wong & Li , “Optimal Multi-h Continuous Phase Modulation,” under preparation.

(5) Wong & Liao, “Time-Varying Polarization Diversity to Mitigate Prolonged Deep Fades in Indoor Wireless Communications,” under preparation.

(6) Wong & Meghavoryan, “Sensitivity of Various CDMA Suboptimal Decorrelating Detector to Correlation Mismatch,” under preparation.

(7) Wong & Cai, “ Design of CDMA Activity Hybrid-Detector Under Impulsive Noises and/or Imperfectly Suppressed Cross-Channel Interference,” under preparation.

(8) Guey & Wong, “Complementary Groups of Generalized Costas Sequences,” under preparation.

(9) Wong, “A Spatio-Temporal-Polarizational Analytical Model for Outdoor Wireless Communication Fading Channel,” under preparation

(10) Wong & Tichavsky, “Dual-Polarization Frequency Re-Use for Satellite Communciations” under preparation.

References: (in alphabetic order)

Prof. Kai Kuang MA,IEEE Sr. Member & Applicant’s N.T.U. Colleague

(Editor of IEEE Trans. Communications for Video & Signal Processing)

Nanyang Technological University, Sch. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Singapore

phone:+65

Prof. Arye NEHORAI,IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Royal Statistical Society

(Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Associate Editor of 6 other journals)

University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, USA

phone:+1 (312)

Prof. Michael D. ZOLTOWSKI,IEEE Fellow & Applicant’s Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor

(Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing & IEEE Communications Letters)

Purdue University at West Lafayette,Sch. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, USA

phone:+1 (765)