Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, George Mason University
- MS, Systems Engineering, George Mason University
- ME, Electrical Engineering, TsingHua University, Beijing
- BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Science & Technology
Biography
Zhi (Gerry) Tian received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from George Mason University in 1998 and 2000 respectively. Since August 2000, she has been on the faculty of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her general interests are in the areas of communications, signal processing, detection and estimation. Specific areas of expertise have included statistical sensor array processing, adaptive filtering, target tracking, Bayesian inference, and decision network theory and applications. Current research topics focus on cognitive radio networks and distributed wireless sensor networks. She is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee and the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee. She served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing. She received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2003.
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Wireless communications
- Signal processing
- Detection and estimation
- Specific areas: statistical array processing, adaptive filtering, target tracking, bayesian interface, and decision network theory and applications