Donald Richard Brown

Biography

Education: BS Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Connecticut Summa Cum Laude 1992 MS Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Connecticut 1996 PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering Cornell University 2000 D. Richard Brown III received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The University of Connecticut in 1992 and 1996, respectively, and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2000. From 1992-1997, he was with General Electric Electrical Distribution and Control. Since August 2000, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he is now a Professor. He also held an appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University from August 2007 to June 2008. His research interests are currently in coordinated wireless transmission and reception, synchronization, distributed computing, and game-theoretic analysis of communication networks. He is currently on an IPA leave from WPI and working as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA.

Research Interest

Communication systems and networking; Signal processing; Information theory; Estimation and detection; Linear and nonlinear dynamical systems