8 July, 1997
Kainam Thomas (Tom) WONG
(U.S. Citizen)
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Research Interests:
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Sensor-Array Signal Processing --- Direction-Finding, Beamforming, Blind Calibration
Smart antennas, Space-Time-Polarization Diversity in Wireless Communication & Radar
CDMA Detector. TDMA Receiver. Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) Code Optimization.
Signal Processing for Communications. Fading-Channel Wireless Communications
Dual-Polarization Frequency Re-Use for Satellite Communications
Education:
Ph.D., E.E.
M.S.E.E.
B.S.E.E.
Purdue University, West Lafayette
Michigan State University, East Lansing
University of Colorado, Boulder
12/96
3/90
12/87
Professional Experience:
* Assistant Professor,
from ‘98 Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
* Assistant Professor,
‘98
Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
* Sr. Professional Staff,
‘96-’98
Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab.,
USA
Developed next-generation satellite communications and radar systems.
* Research Assistant,
‘94-’96
Purdue Univ., Sch. of Elect. & Comp. Engr., USA
* Manufacturing Engineer, ‘90-’91
General Motors Technical Center, Michigan, USA
Coordinated/supervised team design of auto-body computer-integrated assembly lines.
* Teaching Assistant,
‘88-’89
Michigan State Univ., Dept. of Elect. Engr., USA
Other Technical Activities:
* Contributor, inaugural edition (2000) of the CRC Dictionary of Pure & Applied Physics,
Author 70 articles for the Telecommunications section of above Dictionary.
* Member of Technical Program Committee for:
1999 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'99)
1999 IEEE Intl. Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing & Communication Systems
2000 European Communications Conference (EuroComm’00)
2000 Spring IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'00 Spring)
2000 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'00)
* Member of Organizing Committee for:
. 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS'00)
Symposium 2000 on Adaptive Signal Processing, Communications & Control.
* Peer Reviewer, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Communications, IEEE
Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic
Engineering, IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar & Navigation, etc.
Kainam Thomas WONG
8 July, 1997
Journal & Conference Publications: 9 published/accepted IEEE journal papers.
Antenna Array Signal Processing:
(1a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Uni-Vector-Sensor ESPRIT for Multisource Azimuth, Elevation, and
Polarization Estimation," IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 1467-1474,
Oct. 1997.
(1b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Uni-Vector-Sensor ESPRIT for Multi-Source Azimuth-Elevation Angle
Estimation," IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society Intl. Symp. 1996, pp. 1368-1371.
(2a) Wong & Zoltowski, “Closed-Form Direction-Finding & Polarization Estimation with Arbitrarily
Spaced Electromagnetic Vector-Sensors at Unknown Locations,” accepted for publication in
4/2000 in IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation.
(2b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-Form Direction-Finding with Arbitrarily Spaced Electromagnetic
Vector-Sensors at Unknown Locations," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech & Signal
Processing, vol. 4, pp. 1949-1952, 1998.
(3a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Direction-Finding with Sparse Rectangular Dual-Size Spatial Invariance
Arrays," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, p. 1320-1336, Oct. 1998.
(3b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Sparse Array Aperture Extension with Dual-Size Spatial Invariance for
ESPRIT-Based Direction Finding," IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems, vol. 2, pp.
691-694, 1996.
(3c) Wong & Zoltowski, "Sparse Array Spatial Diversity with Dual-Size Spatial Invariances to Mitigate
Fading-Channel Effects," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications, part 1, pp. 142-146, 1997.
(4a) Zoltowski & Wong, "ESPRIT-based 2D Direction Fidning with a Sparse Array of Electromagnetic
Vector-Sensors," accepted by IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.
(4b) Wong & Zoltowski, "High Accuracy 2D Angle Estimation with Extended Aperture Vector Sensor
Arrays," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, pp. 2789-2792, 1996.
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(5a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Self-Initiating MUSIC Direction Finding & Polarization estimation in SpatioPolarizational Beamspace," in second-round review by IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation.
(5b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Polarization-Beamspace Self-Initiating MUSIC for Azimuth/Elevation Angle
Estimation," IEE Radar'97 Conference, IEE Conf. Publication no. 449, pp. 328-333.
(6a) Zoltowski & Wong, "Closed-Form Eigenstructure-Based Direction Finding Using Arbitrary but
Identical Subarrays on a Sparse Uniform Cartesian Array Grid," accepted for publication in 2000
in the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.
(6b) Zoltowski & Wong "Polarization Diversity & Extended-Aperture Spatial Diversity to Mitigate
Fading-channel Effects with a Sparse Array of Electric Dipoles or Magnetic Loops," IEEE
Vehicular Technology International Conf., pp. 1163-1167, 1997.
(7a) Wong, Li & Zoltowski, "Root-MUSIC-Based Direction Finding & polarization Estimation with
Diversely Oriented & Partly Colocated Electric Dipoles and/or Magnetic Loops," in first-round
review by IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation.
(7b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Diversely Polarized Root-MUSIC for Azimuth-Elevation Angle-of-Arrival
Estimation," IEEE Antennas & Propagation Soc. Intl. Symp., pp. 1352-1355, 1996.
(8) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-form Multi-dimensional Multi-invariance ESPRIT," IEEE Intl. Conf. on
Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 3489-3492, 1997.
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(9) Wong, "A Novel Closed-Form Azimuth/Elevation Angle and Polarization Estimation Technique
Using Only Electric Dipole Triads or Only Magnetic Loop Triads with Arbitrary Unknown
Spacings," IEEE International Conference on Circuits & Systems, vol. 3, pp. 207-210, 1999 & to
submit to the IEEE Signal Processing Letters
(10) Wong, "Geolocation for Partially Polarized Electromagnetic Sources Using Multiple Sparsely and
Uniformly Spaced Spatially Stretched Vector Sensors," IEEE International Conference on
Circuits & Systems, vol. 3, pp. 170-174, 1999 & to submit to IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.
(11) Wong, "Blind Adaptive Interference Rejection Based on Doppler/Delay Diversity Between
Desired Signal & Interferences/Clutters," IEEE National Radar Conf., pp. 355-360, 1998.
Underwater Acoustic Hydrophone Array Signal Processing:
(1a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Extended-Aperture Underwater Acoustic Multisource Azimuth/Elevation
Direction-Finding Using Uniformly But Sparsely Spaced Vector Hydrophones," IEEE J. Oceanic
Engineering, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 659-672, Oct. 1997.
(1b) Wong & Zoltowski, “"ESPRIT-Based Extended-Aperture Source Localization Using VectorHydrophones," MTS/IEEE Oceans 96 Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1427-1432.
(2a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-Form Underwater Acoustic Direction-Finding with Arbitrarily Spaced
Vector-Hydrophones at Unknown Locations," IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 22, no. 3, pp.
566-575, July 1997.
(2b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Closed-Form Underwater Acoustic Direction-Finding with Arbitrarily Spaced
Vector-Hydrophones at Unknown Locations," IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits & Systems, vol.
4, pp. 2557-2560, 1997.
(3a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Root-MUSIC-Based Azimuth-Elevation Angle-of-Arrival Estimation with
Uniformly Spaced but Arbitrarily Oriented Velocity Hydrophones," IEEE Trans. Signal
Processing, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 3250-3260, Dec. 1999.
(3b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Source Localization by 2-D Root-MUSIC with “Scalar triads” of VelocityHydrophones," IEEE Midwest Sym. on Circuits & Systems, vol. 2, pp. 677-680, ’96
(4a) Wong & Zoltowski, "Self-Initiating MUSIC-Based Source Localization in
Particle Velocity Beamspace," accepted for publication in 2000 in the
Engineering .
(4b) Wong & Zoltowski, "Self-Initiating velocity-Field Beamspace MUSIC for
Direction-Finding with Irregularly Spaced Vector-Hydrophones," IEEE
Circuits & Systems, vol. 4, pp. 2553-2556, 1997.
Underwater Acoustic
IEEE J. of Oceanic
Underwater Acoustic
Intl. Symposium on
(5) K. T. Wong & M. D. Zoltowski, "Orthogonal Velocity-Hydrophone ESPRIT for Sonar Source
Localization," MTS/IEEE Oceans 96 Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1307-1312 & to be submitted to the
IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.
(6) Wong, "Adaptive Source Localization and Blind Beamforming for Underwater Acoustic Wideband
Fast Frequency-Hop Signals of Unknown Hop Sequence and Unknown Arrival Angles Using a
Vector-Hydrophone," published in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
1999.
(7) Wong & Chi, “Beam-Pattern of an Underwater Acoustic Vector Hydrophone,” submitted to IEEE J.
Oceanic Engineering.
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Signal Processing for Communications:
(1a) Wong, "Blind Adaptive Geolocation for Multiple Frequency-Hopping Signals of Unknown
Hopping Sequences," IEEE International Conf. on Communications, vol. 2, pp. 758-762, 1998
and in second-round review by the IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems.
(1a) Wong, "Blind Adaptive Geolocation for Multiple Frequency-Hopping Signals of Unknown
Hopping Sequences," IEEE International Conf. on Communications, vol. 2, pp. 758-762, 1998.
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(2a) Wong, "Novel Pulse-Diverse Radar/Sonar Waveforms," IEEE National Radar Conference, pp.
105-110, 1998.
(2b) Wong & Chung, “Design of Pulse-Diverse Waveform for Optimum Ambiguity Distribution,”
accepted by IEEE International Radar Conference 2000.
(3) Wong & Lai, “Inexpensive Upgrade of Antenna-Switching Cellular Base-Station Receivers for
Uplink/Downlink Beamforming using a Magnetic-Loop pair or a Loop/Dipole Triad,” in first-round
review by IEEE Trans. Communications.
(4) Wong & Li , “Optimal Multi-h Continuous Phase Modulation,” under preparation.
(5) Wong & Liao, “Time-Varying Polarization Diversity to Mitigate Prolonged Deep Fades in Indoor
Wireless Communications,” under preparation.
(6) Wong & Meghavoryan, “Sensitivity of Various CDMA Suboptimal Decorrelating Detector to
Correlation Mismatch,” under preparation.
(7) Wong & Cai, “ Design of CDMA Activity Hybrid-Detector Under Impulsive Noises and/or
Imperfectly Suppressed Cross-Channel Interference,” under preparation.
(8) Guey & Wong, “Complementary Groups of Generalized Costas Sequences,” under preparation.
(9) Wong, “A Spatio-Temporal-Polarizational Analytical Model for Outdoor Wireless Communication
Fading Channel,” under preparation
(10) Wong & Tichavsky, “Dual-Polarization Frequency Re-Use for Satellite Communciations” under
preparation.
References: (in alphabetic order)
Prof. Kai Kuang MA,
IEEE Sr. Member & Applicant’s N.T.U. Colleague
(Editor of IEEE Trans. Communications for Video & Signal Processing)
Nanyang Technological University, Sch. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Singapore
phone:+65 790-6366
ekkma@ntu.edu.sg
Prof. Arye NEHORAI,
IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Royal Statistical Society
(Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Associate Editor of 6 other journals)
University of Illinois at Chicago,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, USA
phone:+1 (312) 996-2778
nehorai@eecs.uic.edu
Prof. Michael D. ZOLTOWSKI,
IEEE Fellow & Applicant’s Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor
(Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing & IEEE Communications Letters)
Purdue University at West Lafayette, Sch. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, USA
phone:+1 (765) 494-3512
mikedz@ecn.purdue.edu