Faculty Achievements
Prof. Matthew McKay has won Best Paper Award at the IEEE ICC 2011
(18 May, 2011)Prof. Matthew McKay of the ECE Department has won Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011, one of the top conferences on communications.
Details of the award-winning paper:
Title: "Analysis of the Level Crossing Rates for Ordered Random Processes"
Authors: Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa, Matthew R. McKay, and Peter J. Smith
The Best Paper Award nominations were made by symposium chairs of ICC 2011. Only the top 18 papers were nominated out of 1092 papers. A Best Paper Award Committee was formed to review all the nominated papers and vote to determine the best 11 papers as the winners of the Best Paper Award.
Prof. Matthew McKay has won the 2011 Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory
(21 Apr, 2011)Prof. Matthew McKay has received the 2011 Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory by the IEEE Communications Society. His paper was titled "MIMO Multichannel Beamforming: SER and Outage Using New Eigenvalue Distributions of Complex Noncentral Wishart Matrices," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 56, No. 3, March 2008, pp. 424-434. The paper was co-authored with Shi Jin, Xiqi Gao and Iain B. Collings.
The innovative new results in this project push forward research on multiple-antenna wireless communication systems, which enable very high rates of information to be sent across the world without additional power or bandwidth. As such, this project lays influential grounds for the next generation of wireless communication technologies.
This award is given annually for the best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Communications in the previous 3 calendar years.
