Hello, I'm Ian Roberts.
I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. My research is in wireless communication.
I am a first second third fourth fifth-year Ph.D. student candidate in the electrical and computer engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin.
I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Jeff Andrews and to be part of his research group.
I am also advised by Prof. Sriram Vishwanath and part of his Laboratory of Informatics, Networks, and Communications (LINC).
Along with many others, we are members of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) and the 6G@UT Research Center.
I am honored to have recently been awarded the 2023 Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award by the Communication Theory Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society.
I am fortunate to have been selected as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. I appreciate their support of my research and studies.
The GitHub repositories associated with several of my papers are listed below:
- Beamformed self-interference measurements at 28 GHz
- Spatial and statistical modeling of mmWave self-interference
- STEER: beam selection for full-duplex mmWave communication systems
- LoneSTAR: beam codebooks for full-duplex mmWave communication systems
I have created and released MIMO for MATLAB (https://mimoformatlab.com), a publicly available package for simulating multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication. It is completely documented, and video tutorials are in progress.
I was recently affiliated with GenXComm (GXC), a startup that develops a suite of full-duplex solutions that enable simultaneous transmission and reception in-band for various applications. GenXComm was founded in 2016 by Prof. Sriram Vishwanath and Hardik B. Jain.
I received my undergraduate electrical engineering degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology in May 2018. I was involved in undergraduate research supervised by Prof. Y. Rosa Zheng on the topic of underwater acoustic communication.
I am a licensed amateur radio operator. My callsign is KE0QVW.
IEEE-Style Biography
Ian P. Roberts received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate and part of the 6G@UT Research Center and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. He has industry experience developing and prototyping wireless technologies at AT&T Labs, Amazon, GenXComm (startup), Sandia National Laboratories, and Dynetics, Inc. His research interests are in the theory and implementation of millimeter wave systems, in-band full-duplex, and other next-generation technologies for wireless communication and sensing. He is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
Ph.D. Research
My Ph.D. research aims to bring in-band full-duplex capability to millimeter wave communication systems by leveraging dense antenna arrays to mitigate self-interference in the spatial domain. I combine theory, practical knowledge, and measurements to motivate, develop, and validate my research in an effort to create full-duplex solutions that integrate into real millimeter wave communication systems.
Research Interests
My broad research interestes are in wireless communication and sensing; communication system design, optimization, and simulation; millimeter wave; full-duplex; satellite communication systems; array signal processing; radar; measurements and prototyping. I aim to develop technologies that advance next-generation wireless communication systems by combining theory, practical knowledge, measurements, and experimental proofs-of-concept. Once I am finished with school, I look forward to a career where I can continue to research, develop, and prototype wireless technologies.
Recent News
- April 2023: Albert defended!
- December 2022: Gee Yong defended!
- December 2022: Manan defended!
- November 2022: Ethan defended!
- October 2022: We submitted a paper that proposes a statistical and spatial model of mmWave self-interference based on nearly 20 million measurements collected with 28 GHz phased arrays.
- October 2022: I co-authored a 35-page book chapter on full-duplex that overviews fundamentals and highlights recent progress in the context of next-generation radios.
- August 2022: I was a visiting student with Prof. Chan-Byoung Chae’s Intelligence Networking Lab at Yonsei University.
- August 2022: Rajesh defended!
- July 2022: We present STEER, which tackles a similar problem as our work LoneSTAR. STEER can enable a mmWave communication system to operate in a full-duplex fashion by strategically selecting transmit and receive beams that deliver high beamforming gain in desired directions while coupling low self-interference. This is achieved by leveraging small-scale phenomena observed in our recent measurement campaign of self-interference. STEER provides a means to use beamforming to mitigate self-interference while also allowing the mmWave system to conduct beam alignment.
- July 2022: Akash defended!
Education
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ongoing
University of Texas at Austin
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2020
University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2018
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Research Experience
University of Texas at Austin, September 2020 – Present
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Yonsei University (Korea), August 2022
Visiting Student, Intelligence Networking Lab (Prof. Chan-Byoung Chae)
Arizona State University, June 2022
Visiting Student, Wireless Intelligence Lab (Prof. Ahmed Alkhateeb)
GenXComm, September 2019 – August 2020
Wireless Research Engineer
University of Texas at Austin, September 2018 – May 2019
Graduate Research Assistant
Missouri University of Science and Technology, January 2017 – May 2018
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Industry Experience
AT&T Labs, Summer 2021
Intern, Advanced Wireless Technologies Group
Amazon, Summer 2019
Intern, Wireless Technology Group
GenXComm, May 2018 – May 2019
Wireless Engineering Intern
Sandia National Laboratories, May 2017 – May 2018
R&D Electrical Engineering Intern
Dynetics, Inc., Summer 2016
Electrical Engineering Intern
Recent Publications
I. P. Roberts, A. Chopra, T. Novlan, S. Vishwanath, and J. G. Andrews, “Spatial and Statistical Modeling of Multi-Panel Millimeter Wave Self-Interference,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (to appear), Apr. 2023. [PDF] [arXiv] [code]
I. P. Roberts, S. Vishwanath, and J. G. Andrews, “LoneSTAR: Analog Beamforming Codebooks for Full-Duplex Millimeter Wave Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Jan. 2023. [PDF] [IEEE] [arXiv] [code]
I. P. Roberts and H. A. Suraweera, “Full-Duplex Transceivers for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems,” Book chapter to appear in Fundamentals of 6G Communications and Networking to be published by Springer, Oct. 2022. [PDF] [arXiv]
Select Involvement & Service
- Member, Full-Duplex and Self-Interference Cancellation Emerging Technologies Initiative, IEEE Communications Society.
- Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ICC Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks, 2020.
- Mentor, Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering, Women in Engineering Program, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2019–2020.
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Access, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Global Communications Conference, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications.
Contact
[my three initials] [at] utexas [dot] edu
My Talented Friends
- Albert Reed, ASU Ph.D. '23 (ML and signal processing)
- Rajesh K. Mishra, UT Austin Ph.D. '22 (wireless)
- Hardik B. Jain, Co-founder and CTO of GenXComm and Ph.D.
studentcandidate at UT Austin - Farzad Mokhtari-Koushyar, UT Austin Ph.D. '21 (photonics)
- Hassan Kaous, Software engineer at Zoox
- Logan Green, Aerospace engineer at Boeing
- Brandon Huttsell, Web developer and artist
- Ronald Palomares, Hardware engineer at GenXComm
- Carl L. Knauf, Author and journalist
- Amudheesan Nakkeeran, System engineer at IIITB COMET Foundation (UT Austin M.S.E. '20)
- Eunsun Kim, Ph.D. student in wireless at UT Austin
- Nitin Jonathan Myers, Assistant professor at TU Delft (UT Austin Ph.D. '20)
- Yuyang Wang, UT Austin Ph.D. '20 (wireless)
- Ahmad AlAmmouri, UT Austin Ph.D. '20 (wireless)
- Marius Arvinte, UT Austin Ph.D. '22 (machine learning + wireless)
- Manan Gupta, UT Austin Ph.D. '22 (wireless)
- Akash Doshi, UT Austin Ph.D. '22 (wireless)
- Ethan Heng, UT Austin Ph.D. '22 (wireless)
- Ezgi Tekgul, Ph.D. student in wireless at UT Austin
- Nick Olson, Ph.D. student in wireless at UT Austin
- Taekyun Lee, Ph.D. student in wireless at UT Austin
- Juseong Park, Ph.D. student in wireless at UT Austin
- Alperen Duru, Ph.D. student in wireless at UT Austin
- Sidharth Kumar, Ph.D. student in medical imaging at UT Austin
- Satyam Kumar, Ph.D. student in brain-computer interfaces at UT Austin
- Agrim Bari, Ph.D. student in wireless at UT Austin
- Yunseong Cho, Ph.D.
studentcandidate in wireless at UT Austin - Yitao Chen, Senior engineer at Qualcomm (UT Austin Ph.D. '20)
- Yu Zhang, Ph.D. student in wireless at Arizona State University
- Tawfik Osman, Ph.D. student in wireless at Arizona State University
- Gee Yong Suk, Yonsei University Ph.D. '22 (wireless)
- Jong Woo Kwak, Ph.D. student in wireless at Yonsei University
- Chanwoo Park, Ph.D. student in machine learning and optimization at MIT
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