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RLE Professors Qing Hu and Gregory
W. Wornell Promoted to Full Professor
Cambridge, MA 01.10.2002
 
Professor John V. Guttag, Head of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts
Insitute of Technology (MIT) has announced that Professors
Qing Hu
and Gregory
W. Wornell of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)
have been promoted to full Professor (from Associate Professor
with tenure) effective 1 July 2002.
In announcing this year's EECS promotions, Professor Guttag
noted, "Excellence in research and in education played
a role in making these cases a pleasure to bring forward."
Professor
Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Director of RLE and the Julius A.
Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, had these comments
about the recently announced promotions. "I am proud to count
Professors Hu and Wornell as senior colleagues within RLE.
Their research, which is at the forefront of device technology
and system theory, respectively, offers great promise for
future advances in communications and related fields. Moreover,
the graduate students they are training will constitute the
next generation of research leaders."
Professor Hu is a member of RLE's Optics
and Quantum Electronics Group. He received the B.A.
degree in physics from Lanzhow University (Lanzhow, China)
in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard
University in 1983 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1989,
he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department
of Physics at University of California at Berkeley. His research
interests are in the physical and engineering aspects of high-frequency
(greater than 100 GHz) and high-speed (faster than 10 ps)
electronic devices. Specifically, his current research activities
focus on the physics and applications of high-frequency (>100
GHz) and high-speed (<10 ps) electronic and optoelectronic
devices, including semiconductor quantum devices, quantum-well
THz and infrared lasers, and micromachined millimeter-wave
and infrared sensors.
Professor Wornell is a member of RLE's Digital
Signal Processing Group. He received the B.A.Sc.
degree (with honors) from the University of British Columbia,
Canada, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering and
computer science, in 1985, 1987 and 1991, respectively.
His research interests span the areas of signal processing,
communication systems, and information theory, and include
algorithms and architectures for wireless networks, broadband
systems, and multimedia environments. He is also active in
industry, serving in different capacities from consultant
to board member, and an inventor on numerous issued and pending
patents, including several in the area of digital watermarking
and information embedding. He directs MIT's new Center
for Wireless Networking, which is funded by the HP-MIT
Alliance.
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