Brian Krongold's Personal Page

I plan to make this page better in the future. In addition to aesthetics, I will be adding

• Links to download all papers
• Links to download talk slides
• 4th-year project ideas (students please email me if interested)
• Some personal info, including some views from an American in Australia

Contents

• Personal Details
  
  
• Curriculum Vitae
  
  
• Teaching
  
  
• Publications
  
  
• Department Page
  
  
• Other Links
  
  

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Personal Details

Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
• B.S. with Honors in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995

Professional Memberships

• IEEE
• Eta Kappa Nu

Employment History

References

Teaching

Publications

JOURNAL

1. B. S. Krongold, A. M. Sayeed, M. Moehring, J. A. Ritcey, M. Spencer, and D. L. Jones,
   Time-Scale Detection of Microemboli in Flowing Blood with Doppler Ultrasound,
   IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 1081-1089, September 1999.


2. B. S. Krongold, K. Ramchandran, and D. L. Jones,
   Computationally Efficient Optimal Power Allocation Algorithms for Multicarrier Communication Systems,
   IEEE Transactions on Communications,  vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 23-27, January 2000.


3. B. S. Krongold, K. Ramchandran, and D. L. Jones,
   Frequency-Shift-Invariant Orthonormal Wavelet Packet Representations,
   IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 2579-2582, September 1999.


4. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones,
   PAR Reduction in OFDM Via Active Constellation Extension,
   accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.


5. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones,
   An Active-Set Approach for OFDM PAR Reduction Via Tone Reservation,
   accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing


SUBMITTED & UNDER REVIEW


6. N. Petersson, B. S. Krongold, P. Odling, A. Johansson, and P. O. Borjesson,
   PSD-Constrained Tone Reservation for DMT/OFDM PAR Reduction,
   submitted February 2003 to the Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Multicarrier Communication Systems.



IN PREPARATION FOR SUBMISSION


7. B. S. Krongold,
   On OFDM Sychronization Through Dispersive Channels,
   to be submitted by March 2003.


8. B. S. Krongold,
   Blind OFDM Carrier-Offset Estimation in ISI Channels,
   to be submitted by March 2003.

PATENT

9. B. S. Krongold, K. Ramchandran, and D. L. Jones,
   "Bisection Operating Point Slope Determination Method for Multicarrier Communication Systems'',
   filed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (No. 09/326,246), June 1999.
   UPDATE: Patent was just issued: U.S. Patent No. 6400773.

CONFERENCE

10. B. S. Krongold, M. L. Kramer, K. Ramchandran, and D. L. Jones,
    Spread Spectrum Interference Suppression Using Adaptive Time-Frequency Tilings,
    Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP '97, Munich, Germany, 1997, pp. 1881-1884.
11. B. S. Krongold, A. M. Sayeed, M. Moehring, J. A. Ritcey, M. Spencer, and D. L. Jones,

Quadratic Time-Scale Detection of Microemboli in Flowing Blood with Doppler Ultrasound,
Proceedings of SPIE Signal and Image Processing V, San Diego, CA, 1997, pp. 137-148.

12. B. S. Krongold, K. Ramchandran, and D. L. Jones,

Frequency-Shift-Invariant Orthonormal Wavelet Packet Representations,
Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Santa Barbara, CA, 1997, pp. 628-631.
13. B. S. Krongold, K. Ramchandran, and D. L. Jones,

Computationally Efficient Optimal Power Allocation Algorithm for Multicarrier Communication Systems,
Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Communications (ICC), Atlanta, GA, June 1998, pp. 1018-1022.
14. B. S. Krongold, K. Ramchandran, and D. L. Jones,

An Efficient Algorithm for Optimal Margin Maximization in Multicarrier Communication Systems,
Proceedings of Globecom '99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1999, pp. 899-903.
15. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones,

Blind Source Separation of Nonstationary Convolutively Mixed Signals,
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE SSAP Workshop, Pocono Manor, PA, USA, August 2000, pp. 53-57.
16. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones,

A New Method for PAR Reduction in Baseband DMT Systems,
Proceedings of the 35th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2001.
Winner of second prize in student paper contest.
17. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones,

A New Tone Reservation Method for Complex-Baseband PAR Reduction in OFDM Systems,
Proceedings of ICASSP 2002, Orlando, FL, May 2002, pp. 2321-2324.
18. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones,

A Study of Active Constellation Extension for PAR Reduction in OFDM,
Proceedings of the 7th International OFDM Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, September 2002, pp. 107--111.
19. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones,
PAR Reduction in OFDM Via Active Constellation Extension,
To appear in the Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, April 2003.


20. B. S. Krongold,
    A Method for Minimum-Interference OFDM Time Synchronization,
    To appear in the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).


21. B. S. Krongold and N. Petersson,
    Active-Set Based PAR Reduction Under PSD Constraints,
    to appear in Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA).


22. B. S. Krongold,
    Blind OFDM Carrier-Frequency-Offset Estimation in ISI Channels,
    Submitted to Globecom 2003.

THESES

23. B. S. Krongold, "Power and Bandwidth Optimization for Multicarrier Communication Systems'',

M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 1997.
24. B. S. Krongold, "New Techniques for Multicarrier Communication Systems'',

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 2001.

Other Links

University Links

• University Of Melbourne Home Page
• Faculty of Engineering Home Page
• University Reseach Page

Links related to my research

General Interest Links

• Australian White Pages
• Australian Yellow Pages
• Victorian Weather Information
• The Age

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