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Professor Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo             
ADC Chair in Digital Technology             

 

 

 

         Dept of ECE, Room 6-161
         University of Minnesota
         200 Union Street SE.
         Minneapolis, MN 55455
         Tel: (612)-625-0242
         Fax: (612)-625-4583
         Email: 
luozq at ece.umn.edu  

 

         Room 483
         Digital Technology Center
         University of Minnesota
         117 Pleasant Street SE.
         Minneapolis, MN 55455

 

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Background (more details here)

Teaching

  • Undergraduate Courses

o        Analog/digital communication (taught in McMaster)

o        Data structures and algorithm in C (taught in McMaster)

o        Computational methods (taught in McMaster)

         Graduate Courses

o        Engineering optimization (EE8950, Spring 2005)

o        Optimization theory (EE8231, Fall 2004, Fall 2007)

o        Information theory and coding (taught in McMaster)

o        Space-time communication (taught in McMaster)

         Tutorial Courses

o        Wireless data communication (industrial short course)

o        Convex optimization techniques in signal processing and digital communication (ICASSP 2002 tutorial)

Research

  • Research Interests: algorithmic/complexity issues arising from data communication, and signal processing

Current research focus is on: SDP relaxation for nonconvex quadratic optimization, dynamic spectrum management, distributed signal processing

  • Current research funding: NSF, ARO

Past research funding: NSERC, CFI, ORDCF, Canada Research Chair program, CITO, CFI, DREO, DREV, Nortel Networks

  • Research group

         Current students: Mikalai Kisialiou, Yao Huang, Alireza Razavi

Software

         Quasi-maximum-likelihood detectors: Semidefinite Relaxation codes for the discrete Integer Least Squares problem

Publications

         Recent working papers

Professional activities

         Fellow of IEEE, Member of SIAM and MPS

         Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society SPTM, SPCOM technical Committees