Faculty Profile - Mary Ann Ingram
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ADVANCE Professor of Engineering Telecommunications Phone: 404.894.9482 Fax: 404.894.7883 Office: Cent 5140 Smart Antenna Research Laboratory |
Biography
Dr. Mary Ann Ingram has been a member of the ECE faculty since completing her doctorate at Tech in 1989. Her research focus for the past eight years has been the application of multi-element arrays (MEAs) to wireless communications. She established the Smart Antenna Research Laboratory, which performs both experimental and theoretical studies. Her research group published the first measured channel data to confirm the dominant effect of the full-rank free-space component of the short-range MIMO link for indoor environments. On a theoretical level, her group has derived what is apparently the first practical stream addition criterion for networks of interfering MIMO links. Bringing theory and experiment together, they have published the first performance analysis of stream control for interfering MIMO links over measured indoor MIMO channels. A major theme of her work has been the design of MIMO, adaptive array, and diversity architectures that exploit antenna subset selection and RF multibeam beamformers. These designs are being prototyped in several current projects with various companies and government agencies. Other activities include channel modeling for adaptive arrays and MIMO and the application of adaptive array and MIMO concepts to battery-enhanced RF tags (i.e. long-range tags that use modulated backscatter).
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Last revised on July 25, 2006.