Hello, I'm Ian Roberts.
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. My research is in wireless communication.
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. I appreciate their support of my research and studies.
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, 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. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is part of 6G@UT in 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, 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.
Recent News
- May 2022: A multi-modal dataset for 6G research has been published by the Wireless Intelligence Lab led by Prof. Alkhateeb at Arizona State University.
- May 2022: 6G@UT and WNCG held the first annual 6G@UT Forum, bringing together wireless researchers at UT and in industry.
- April 2022: Marius defended!
- April 2022: IEEE WCNC 2022 was held in Austin.
- December 2021: Our paper has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
- November 2021: Farzad defended!
- July 2021: WNCG has launched the 6G@UT research center!
- May 2021: I will be interning with AT&T Labs in Austin for summer 2021.
- April 2021: Nitin accepted a faculty position at TU Delft!
- December 2020: I have released the second version of MIMO for MATLAB!
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
A. Chopra, I. P. Roberts, T. Novlan, and J. G. Andrews, “28 GHz Phased Array-Based Self-Interference Measurements for Millimeter Wave Full-Duplex,” IEEE WCNC, Apr. 2022. [PDF] [IEEE] [arXiv] [YouTube] [slides]
I. P. Roberts, A. Chopra, T. Novlan, S. Vishwanath, and J. G. Andrews, “STEER: Beam Selection for Full-Duplex Millimeter Wave Communication Systems,” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, Feb. 2022.
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] [IEEE] [arXiv] [YouTube]
Select Involvement & Service
- 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 Vehicular Technology Conference.
- 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.
Contact
[my three initials] [at] utexas [dot] edu
My Talented Friends
- Albert Reed, Ph.D.
studentcandidate in ML and signal processing at Arizona State University - Rajesh K. Mishra, Ph.D.
studentcandidate in wireless and signal processing at UT Austin - Hardik B. Jain, Co-founder and CTO of GenXComm and Ph.D. student 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, Ph.D.
studentcandidate in signal processing at UT Austin - Manan Gupta, Ph.D.
studentcandidate in wireless at UT Austin - Akash Doshi, Ph.D.
studentcandidate in wireless at UT Austin - Ethan Heng, Ph.D.
studentcandidate 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)