Dr. Annamalai Annamalai
Associate Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: aaannamalai@pvamu.edu   

Professional Preparation

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, 1999
• M.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, 1997
• B.E. (First Class Honors), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Science University of Malaysia, 1993

Employment

• Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, U.S.A., September 2006 - presentFaculty Member, Virginia Tech, U.S.A, January 2000 - August 2006
• Associate Director, Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), January 2002 - August 2006
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada, February 1999 - December 1999
• Graduate Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada, May 1995 - January 1999
• RF Design & Development Engineer, Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector, Malaysia, May 1993 - April 1995
• Associate Engineer, Hewlett-Packard, Opto-electronics Division (Die-Fabrication and Testing Department), Malaysia, January 1992 - June 1992
   

Publications
               
                Dr. Annamalai has published well over 100 referred journal and conference    

             publications in the field of wireless communications over the past ten years.

Book Chapters

• A. Annamalai, S. Muthuswamy, D. Sweeney, R. Buehrer, J. Ibrahim and Dong Ha, "Chapter 6: Receiver Design Principles" An Introduction to Ultra Wideband Communication Systems, Jeffrey H. Reed Ed., Prentice-Hall: 2005, pp. 253-377.

• D. Sweeney, Dong Ha, A. Annamalai, and S. Muthuswamy, "Chapter 5: Transmitter Design" An Introduction to Ultra Wideband Communication Systems, Jeffrey H. Reed Ed., Prentice-Hall: 2005, pp. 213-251.

• C. Tellambura and A. Annamalai, "Wireless Communication Systems Design," Wiley Encylopedia of Telecommunications, Vol. 5, J. G. Proakis Ed., John Wiley & Sons: 2003, pp. 2915-2925.

• A. Annamalai, C. Tellambura and V. K. Bhargava, "A Unified Approach to Performance Evaluation of Diversity Systems on Fading Channels," Chapter 17 in Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, 1999, pp. 311-330.
   

 

 

 

Research Interests

 Receiver-oriented link adaptation strategies for high mobility environments
Compressive Sensing
Unequal error protection via asymmetric constellation design
Adaptive radio designs
Multi-layer wireless ad-hoc network design and optimization
Diversity mechanisms and cooperative communications
 

Research Honors/Awards

• 2001 IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award

• 2000 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Prize

• 2000 CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award in Engineering, Medicine and Natural Sciences

• 1998 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Graduate Fellowship

• 1998 Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal

• 1998 IEEE ComSoc ICUPC'98 Best Student Paper Award

• 1997 Uniden Corporation Research Award (ICPWC'97 Best Student Paper Award)

• Motorola Recognition Award, 1994

• 1993 Intel Technology-USM Best Electronics Project Award for the project entitled, "Design and Development of Computer-Aided ECG"