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Faculty Profile

Lei Cao

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Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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314 Anderson Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-5389
lcao@olemiss.edu
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Joined UM: August 18, 2002

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
Sabbatical Leave Review
University Standing Committee

Awards

School of Engineering, Senior Faculty Research Award
2016
School of Engineering Outstanding Teacher of the Year
2018