responsible for the strategy behind digital baseband modem development for 3G and 4G wireless infrastructure as well as high-performance medical equipment. He holds 60 awarded patents and is author of
The Application of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications.
Gene A. Frantz (genf@ti.com) received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Central Florida (1971), his M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Methodist University (1977), and his
M.B.A. from Texas Tech University (1982). He joined Texas Instruments (TI) in 1974, spending most of his career focusing on DSP, where he is a recognized leader both within TI and throughout the industry. He holds 45 patents and has written more than 50 papers and articles. He is TI’s Principal Fellow and a Fellow of the IEEE.
David V. Anderson (dva@ece.gatech.edu) received his B.S and
M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1993, 1994, and 1999, respectively. He is currently an associate profes- sor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and codirector of the Advanced Center for Embedded Systems. His research interests are in signal process- ing and embedded systems. He was awarded the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Brian L. Evans (bevans@ece.utexas.edu) received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1987 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1993, respectively. From 1993 to 1996, he was a post-doctoral researcher in design automation for embedded systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1996, he has been on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently an electrical and comput- er engineering professor. In 1997, he won the U.S. NSF CAREER Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
