Kamran Kiasaleh

Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California - 1986

M.S. - Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California - 1982

B.S. - Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California - 1981

D. Cao, A. Modiri, G. Sureka, K. Kiasaleh, "DSP Implementation of the Particle Swarm and Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time Design of Thinned Array Antennas," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 11, 2012. 2012 - Publication

M. Abaz and K. Kiasaleh, "Erratum to "Performance of APD-Based, PPM Free-Space Optical Communication Systems in Atmospheric Turbulence," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 2638-2639, 2011. 2011 - Publication

Ali Montazeri, Allen Web, and Kamran Kiasaleh, "Low-Power Spectral-Line Clock Recovery Algorithm for SDR Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems II, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 773-777, 2011. 2011 - Publication

Modiri and K. Kiasaleh, "Efficient Design of Microscript Antennas for SDR Applications Using Modified PSO Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 1278-1281, 2011. 2011 - Publication

Modiri and K. Kiasaleh, "Modification of Real-Number and Binary PSO Algorithms for Accelerated Convergence," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 214-224, 2011. 2011 - Publication

Kamran Kiasaleh, "Hybrid ARQ for FSO Communication Through Turbulent Atmosphere," IEEE Communications letters vol. 14, No. 9, pp. 866-868, 2010. 2010 - Publication

Ali Montazeri and Kamran Kiasaleh, "Design and Performance Analysis of a Low Complexity Digital Clock Recovery Algorithm for Software-Defined Radio Applications, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 1258-1263, 2010. 2010 - Publication

Beilei Zhang and Kamran Kiasaleh, "Partially-Coherent Receiver Architectures for QAM Communications in the Presence of Non-constant Phase Estimation Error," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp 568-573, Feb. 2009. 2009 - Publication

Associate Department Head
University of Texas at Dallas [2006–Present]

Full Professor
[2003–2004]

Full Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [1999–2000]

Communications Engineer/Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory [1998–1999]

Senior Communications Engineer
"Texas Instruments, Inc" [1996–1997]
Digital Signal Processing R&D Center

Associate Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [1992–1999]

Communications Engineer/Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory [1992–1992]

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [1987–1992]

Lecturer
University of Southern California [1987–1987]

Communications Engineer
Teknekron Communication Systems [1986–1987]

Awards

NASA Group Achievement Award in 1993 for contribution to the success of Galileo Optical Experiment (GOPEX) demonstration (first successful demonstration of an optical communications link between a ground-based transmitter and a deep-space vehicle) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Invited Talks

"Time transfer technique for global positioning in master-slave systems," presented at The Center for Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, Oct. 1987.

"Galileo Optical Experiment," Laser and Electro-Optical Society (LEOS) Meeting, The University at Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, Jan. 13, 1993.

"On the Statistics of Signal Intensity in Free-Space Optical Communications System Impaired by Pointing Jitter and Turbulence," IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTTS) Chapter Meeting, Hewlette Packard, Richardson, TX , Dec. 1994.

"Spectral Efficiency: A Key Performance Measure in Wireless  Communications," IEEE/ACM Computer Society Meeting, Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX, Oct. 1996.

Kiasaleh, A Robust Multi-hop Virtual topology for WDM Communications in the Presence of Link Failures, DIMACS Workshop on Network Switching, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, July 7-9, 1997.

Kiasaleh, T-PPM: A novel modulation scheme for Optical PPM Communications Systems Impaired by Pulse width Inaccuracies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Aug. 3, 1998.        

Patents

• Channel-aided, decision-directed delay-locked loop (USPTO:6,373,862)
• Synchronization and clock recovery (USPTO:6,324,234)
• Interferometric, self-homodyne optical receiver and method and optical transmission system incorporating same (USPTO:5,319,438)
• A low complexity CDMA receiver (pending, with Mahant Shett)