Biography

Raviraj Adve
	Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Toronto ON Education: Ravi Adve received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1996, both in Electrical Engineering. Accomplishments: Between 1997 and 2000 Dr. Adve was a Senior Research Engineer with Research Associates for Defense Conversion Inc., on contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory. He joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in August 2000 where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Adve's research interests include practical signal processing algorithms for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communications and distributed radar systems. In the area of wireless communications, he is currently focused on precoding in various scenarios and cooperation in distributed wireless networks. In radar systems he works in waveform diversity and low-complexity space-time adaptive processing algorithms.
Dr. Adve has also worked extensively on model based parameter estimation techniques with applications in numerical electromagnetics. He has published 12 journal and several conference papers in this research area. He has also served on the organizing committees of the International Radar Conference, Waveform Diversity and Design Conferences, and the International Antennas and Propagation Symposium. Awards/Honors: Dr. Adve was awarded the Syracuse University Doctoral prize and University of Toronto APSC teaching award. His PhD thesis received the 1996 Syracuse University Dissertation Prize. Over the last few years he has twice received the Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng. Teaching award and the 2007 Faculty Teaching Award from the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering at the University of Toronto.