Ian P. Roberts

The Engineering Education and Research Center (EER) at UT Austin

I am a first second third fourth-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 6G@UT.

I am fortunate to have been selected as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow beginning in Fall 2020. I appreciate their support of my research and studies.

I have created and released MIMO for MATLAB (https://mimoformatlab.com), a 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, 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.

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, measurements, and practical knowledge to motivate, develop, and validate my research in an effort to create full-duplex solutions that integrate into real millimeter wave communication systems.

Interests

My broad research interests are in millimeter wave communication; in-band full-duplex; MIMO; communication system design, optimization, and simulation; interference cancellation; array signal processing; radar; and satellite communication systems. My goal is to have extensive theoretical background on wireless combined with an understanding of how concepts are implemented practically. Once I am finished with school, I look forward to a career where I can research, develop, and prototype wireless technologies.

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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

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, Advanced 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

E. Kim, I. P. Roberts, P. A. Iannucci, and J. G. Andrews, “Downlink Analysis of LEO Multi-Beam Satellite Communication in Shadowed Rician Channels,” IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 2021. [PDF] [arXiv]

I. P. Roberts, H. B. Jain, S. Vishwanath, and J. G. Andrews, “Millimeter Wave Analog Beamforming Codebooks Robust to Self-Interference,” IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 2021. [PDF] [arXiv] [YouTube]

I. P. Roberts, “MIMO for MATLAB: A Toolbox for Simulating MIMO Communication Systems,” arXiv, Nov. 2021. [PDF] [arXiv]

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Contact

[my three initials] [at] utexas [dot] edu

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