TFI Communications Technology Conference
Wireless Keynote Speaker
Jeffrey Andrews, Ph.D.
Cockrell Family Endowed Chair in Engineering, Department of ECE, Wireless Networking and Communications Group
University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Andrew's research is on the theory and development of wireless communication systems. They use mathematical tools and machine learning techniques to model, analyze, optimize and create new wireless communication architectures and techniques.
In addition to doing basic research, Dr. Andrews wors closely with leading R&D groups in industry to develop these ideas and to transition the results to practice. Their work is currently supported by Samsung, AT&T, Crown Castle, Huawei, and Nokia, as well as the National Science Foundation and WNCG.
Jeffrey Andrews received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the Cockrell Family Endowed Chair in Engineering, in the Dept. of ECE at the University of Texas at Austin. He developed CDMA systems at Qualcomm from 1995-97, and has consulted for many technology companies and government agencies over the last two decades.
Dr. Andrews is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and has received the 2019 IEEE Tomayisu Award, the 2015 Terman Award, a 2007 NSF CAREER award and has been co-author of fifteen best paper award recipients, including seven annual IEEE journal paper awards. He is co-author of the books Fundamentals of WiMAX and Fundamentals of LTE, and is an IEEE Fellow. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2013-18 and was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2014-16.