Work Address:

Dr. Erchin Serpedin, Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Room 242-D Zachry
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Phone: (979) 458-2287
FAX: (979) 862-4630
Email: serpedin at ece.tamu.edu

Education:

• Diploma of Electrical Engineer, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Thesis: ``Singular Value Decomposition-based Methods for the Estimation of State Space Equations,'' Advisor: Prof. Petre Stoica, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Specialization Degree in Transmission and Processing of Information, L'Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (SUPELEC), Paris, France.
Thesis: ``High-quality audio transform coding for stereophonic channels,'' Advisor: Prof. Joel Soumagne, SUPELEC, France.

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (DSP and Telecommunications), Georgia Institute of Technology, ECE School, Atlanta, GA.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, January 1999.
Ph.D. Dissertation: ``Equalization of Linear and Nonlinear Communication Channels using Transmitter or Receiver Diversity''. Doctoral Advisor: Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

My research interests are in the areas of signal processing for wireless communications, computational statistics, statistical signal processing, information theory, bioinformatics and genomics. He is the author of 1 textbook, 2 research monographs, 8 book chapters, and more than 80 journal papers and 125 conference papers. He also served as the lead co-editor/co-author of the textbook Mathematical Foundations for Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, CRC Press/Francis and Taylor, 2012. He also co-authored a research monograph on Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks, published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Details are presented in my resume . During the Ph.D. years, I was associated with the SPINCOM Group lead by Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis.

Professional Activities: Served as Associate Editor for more than 10 major journals including IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Signal Processing -Elsevier, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.

Dr. Serpedin served also a technical (co-)chair for 5 major symposia: Wireless Communications Track at VTC 2005, Communications Theory Workshop at Globecom 2006, IEEE Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Workshop (SPAWC 2012), Signal Processing and Adaptive Filtering Track at ASILOMAR 2012 Conference, and Signal Processing Track at ICT 2010. He also organized as guest editor 5 special issues of the following journals: Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Special Issue on Distributed Signal Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks), Eurasip Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Special Issue on Applications of Digital Signal Processing Techniques in Bioinformatics and Genomics and another Special Issue on Sequence Analysis and Genome Assembly), Elsevier Physical Communications Journal (Special Issue on Cognitive Radios) and Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Special Issue on Synchronization in Wireless Communications).

Students: Graduated 10 PhD students and 9 Master Students.

Main Current Research Areas: signal processing, wireless comunications, computational statistics, bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics. Recently (for the last 2 years), we started to investigate problems in information theory and computational statistics.

Awards: NSF Career Award (2001), Outstanding Faculty Award (2004), TEES Fellow (2005), CCCT'04 Best Paper Award (2005), ICDT 2008 Best Paper Award.

The research contributions of Dr. Serpedin to the areas of synchronization of communication systems and signal processing for wireless communications (blind estimation and equalization) are summarized in a small technical report that it is attached to this link . The research contributions of Dr. Serpedin to other areas such bioinformatics, genomics, wireless networks, cyclostationary signal processing, information theory, antenna array processing, estimation and detection etc., are depicted in his resume .

Some Old Publications:

1. G. B. Giannakis and E. Serpedin, ``Linear Multichannel Blind Equalizers of Nonlinear FIR Volterra Channels,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 67-81, January 1997.
2. E. Serpedin and G. B. Giannakis, ``Blind Channel Identification and Equalization with Modulation Induced Cyclostationarity'', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 1930-1944, July 1998.
3. G. B. Giannakis and E. Serpedin, ``Blind Identification of ARMA Channels with Periodically Modulated Inputs,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 3099-3104, Nov. 1998.
4. E. Serpedin and G. B. Giannakis, ``A Simple Proof of a Known Channel Identifiability Result,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 2, Febr. 1999.
5. E. Serpedin, ``Subsequence Based Recovery of Missing Samples in Oversampled Band-limited Signals,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 580-583, Febr. 2000.
6. A. Chevreuil, E. Serpedin, P. Loubaton, and G. B. Giannakis, ``Blind Channel Identification and Equalization Using Non-Redundant Periodic Modulation Precoders: Performance Analysis,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 6, June 2000.
7. E. Serpedin, A. Chevreuil, G. B. Giannakis, and P. Loubaton, ``Blind Channel and Carrier Frequency Offset/Doppler Estimation Using Periodic Modulation Precoders,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 8, August 2000.
8. G. B. Giannakis and E. Serpedin, ``A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON NONLINEAR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION,'' Signal Processing, Elsevier Science B.V., vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 533-580, March 2001.
9. P. Ciblat, P. Loubaton, E. Serpedin, and G. B. Giannakis, ``Performance of Non-Data Aided Carrier Offset Estimation For Non-Circular Transmissions Through Frequency-Selective Channels,'' ICASSP'00, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000. Journal paper version published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 130-140, January 2002 <.ps file is available here.>
10. E. Serpedin, P. Ciblat, G. B. Giannakis, and P. Loubaton, ``Performance Analysis of Blind Carrier Phase Estimators for General QAM Constellations,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 8, August 2001. ``Proof of Theorem 1.'' ``Proof of Theorem 2.''
11. P. Ciblat, P. Loubaton, E. Serpedin and G. B. Giannakis, ``Asymptotic Analysis of Blind Cyclic Correlation Based Symbol Rate Estimators,'' IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 48, no. 5, July 2002.
12. C. Georghiades and E. Serpedin, Synchronization, Book Chapter in The Handbook of Communications, CRC Press, 2002.
13. Y. Wang, P. Ciblat, E. Serpedin, and P. Loubaton, ``Performance Analysis of a Class of Non-Data Aided Carrier Frequency Offset and Symbol Timing Delay Estimators For Flat-Fading Channels,'' IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 9, Sept. 2002.
14. Y. Wang and E. Serpedin, ``Non-Data Aided Feedforward Carrier Frequency Offset Estimators for QAM Constellations: A Nonlinear Least-Squares Approach,'' Applied Signal Processing, Elsevier, Netherlands (accepted for publication-Sept. 2003). All the mathematical derivations from the Appendices are present here.
15. P. Ciblat, Y. Wang and E. Serpedin, ``On a fractionally-sampled carrier frequency offset estimator,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol 10, no. 4, April 2003. Technical Report 1: Proofs for some derivations Technical Report 2: P. Ciblat and L. Vandendorpe, Blind carrier frequency-offset estimation for noncircular constellation based transmissions,'' IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2003
16. Y. Wang, E. Serpedin, and P. Ciblat, ``Optimal blind carrier recovery for burst M-PSK transmissions,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 9, Sept. 2003.
17. Y. Wang and E. Serpedin, ``A Class of Blind Phase Recovery Techniques for Large QAM Modulations: Estimators and Bounds,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 301-303, October 2002.
18. Y. Wang, E. Serpedin and P. Ciblat, ``Optimal Blind Nonlinear Least-Squares Carrier Phase and Frequency Offset Estimation for General QAM Modulations,'' IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 2, no. 5, September 2003.
19. Y. Wang, E. Serpedin and P. Ciblat, ``Blind Feedforward Cyclostationarity-Based Timing Estimation for Linear Modulations,'' IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 709-715, May 2004. Detailed Math Derivations
20. P. Ciblat and E. Serpedin, ``A fine frequency offset estimator for OFDM/OQAM systems,'' IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 1, January 2004, pp. 291-298.
21. Y. Wang, E. Serpedin and P. Ciblat, ``An Alternative Blind Feedforward Symbol Timing Estimator Using Two Samples per Symbol,'' IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 51, no. 9, Sept. 2003.
22. K. Shi and E. Serpedin, ``Robust Coarse Frame and Carrier Synchronization for OFDM Systems: A New Metric and Performance Evaluation'' IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1271-1284, July 2004.
23. Y. Wang, K. Shi, and E. Serpedin, ``Continuous-mode frame synchronization for frequency-selective channels," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 865-874, May 2004.
24. K. Shi, Y. Wang and E. Serpedin, ``On the Design of Digital Blind Feedforward Jitter Free Timing Recovery Schemes for Linear Modulations," IEEE Trans on Communications, vol. 52, no. 9, Sept. 2004.
25. Y.-C. Wu, S.-C. Chan, and E. Serpedin, ``Symbol-Timing Estimation in Space-Time Coding Systems based on Orthogonal Training Sequences," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, (accepted for publication, March 2003).
26. Y.-C. Wu and E. Serpedin, ``Low-complexity feedforward symbol timing estimator using Conditional Maximum Likelihood principle," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 168-171, March 2004.
27. K. Shi and E. Serpedin, ``Almost jitter-free feedforward symbol timing recovery for CPM modulations", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, (submitted, Nov. 2003).
28. Y. C. Wu and E. Serpedin, ``Design and Analysis of Feedforward Symbol Timing Estimators Based on the Conditional Maximum Likelihood Principle," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, accepted for publication in April 2004.
29. K. Shi, E. Serpedin, and P. Ciblat, ``Fine synchronization in coded OFDM systems" IEEE Trans. on Communications, ( accepted for publication - October 2003; submitted Sept. 2003).
30. Y.C. Wu, and E. Serpedin, ``Maximum Likelihood Symbol Timing Estimation in MIMO Correlated Fading Channels," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (WCMC), Special Issue on "Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Communications", Wiley, accepted for publication, April 2004.
31. Y.C. Wu, K.-W. Yip, T.-S. Ng, and E. Serpedin, ``Maximum-likelihood frame synchronization for IEEE 802.11a WLANs on frequency-selective fading channels with unknown sampling phase offset," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Nov. 2003 (accepted for publication).
32. Y.C. Wu, and E. Serpedin, Comments on ``Class of Cyclic-Based Estimators for Frequency-Offset Estimation of OFDM Systems'', IEEE Trans. on Communications, April 2004, (accepted for publication).
33. K. Shi and E. Serpedin, ``Fast Timing Recovery for Linearly and Non-linearly Modulated Systems," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, May 2004, (accepted for publication).
34. Y.C. Wu, and E. Serpedin, ``Unified analysis of a class of blind feedforward symbol timing estimators employing second-order statistics," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, July 2004. (accepted).
35. G. B. Giannakis, E. Serpedin, and F. Panduru, ``A bibliography on cyclostationary signal processing," Signal Processing, Elsevier, Dec. 2005 issue (accepted).
36. K. Shi, B. Kelleci, T. W. Fischer, E. Serpedin and A. I. Karsilayan, ``Narrowband Interference Mitigation in Multiband OFDM-UWB Receivers," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on UWB, March 1, 2005 (submitted).
37. Eddie Noh and E. Serpedin, Optimum Cooperation of the Cooperative Coding Scheme for Frequency Division Half-Duplex Channel, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, (submitted) Oct. 2005.
38. T. Dureya and E. Serpedin, Blind carrier recovery for circular QAM using nonlinear least-squares estimation, Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal, Elsevier (submitted) April 2005.
39. Y. Zhou, A. I. Karsilayan and E. Serpedin, ``Sensitivity of Multi-Band OFDM Ultra Wideband Receivers to Synchronization Errors," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Sept. 2005 (submitted).
40. W. Zhao, E. Serpedin, and E. Dougherty, ``Information theoretic method for recovering temporal gene regulations from time series microarray data," {\it Bioinformatics}, Jan. 2006 (Submitted).
41. K. Noh, Q. Chaudhari, E. Serpedin, and B. Suter, ``Maximum Likelihood and Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Clock Offset and Skew Estimation in Timing Synch Protocol for Sensor Networks," IEEE Trans. on Communications, Oct. 2005 (submitted).
42. Technical Report: ``Evaluation of the Normalized Asymptotic Covariance Matrix for the Cyclic Correlation (Sample) Estimates.''

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