Faculty Profile
Lei Cao
Areas of Expertise
- CHANNEL ERROR CONTROL CODING AND DECODING
- COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND PROTOCOLS, CODING FOR ERROR CONTROL
- COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
- DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
- IMAGE CODING AND TRANSMISSION
- IMAGE PROCESSING
- NOISE CONTROL
- PROBABILITY MODELING
- STATISTICS, MULTIVARIATE
- WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Brief Bio
Dr. Cao is professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi. He has close to 20 years of experience in academic research and teaching at Universities. He had also worked with Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NY) and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (NJ) as an intern and research associate. His research interests include image processing (with focus of image compression and transmission) and digital signal processing for wireless communications (with focus of adaptive filter design, error control coding, turbo decoding, OFDM and MIMO systems). Dr. Cao has more than 100 technical publications in the related areas. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Multimedia and has served as a technical committee member and session chair for some international conferences. He is a reviewer for numerous IEEE journals and conferences and was a panelist for NSF proposal review.
Degrees
BS |
Electrical Engineering |
Hefei University of Technology (1990) |
MS |
Computer Science |
Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing (1993) |
PhD |
Electrical Engineering |
University of Missouri-Columbia (2002) |
Committee Memberships
Eng.- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion |
Ad Hoc Committee |
University Standing Committee |
Awards
School of Engineering, Senior Faculty Research Award |
2016 |
School of Engineering Outstanding Teacher of the Year |
2018 |