About the Authors
The authors and their groups at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, have been doing research in wireless communication baseband IC design for more than a decade, recently focusing especially on MIMO-OFDM systems. Their research results have been published in important international journals and conferences, and are recognized by several awards.
Tzi-Dar Chiueh received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1989 and he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU). Since November 2010, he was also appointed as the Director General of the National Chip Implementation Center in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He has held visiting positions at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA. Prof. Chiueh has received the Acer Longterm Award 11 times and the MXIC Golden Silicon Award in 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2009. His teaching efforts have been recognized seven times by the Teaching Excellence Award from NTU. Prof. Chiueh was the recipient of the Distinguished Research Achievements Award from the National Science Council, Taiwan, in 2004, and he was awarded the Himax Chair Professorship at NTU in 2006. In 2009, he received the Outstanding Industry Contribution Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. He is the author of more than 190 technical papers, many of which are on algorithms, architectures, ...
