Matthew Pugh


Graduate Student Researcher
Digital Signal Processing Lab
ECE @ UCSD

RESEARCH TOPICS

Feedback Reduction in Multiuser MIMO Broadcast Channels
Feedback Section and Reduction via Thresholding
Greedy Scheduling and Proportional Fair Sharing under i.i.d. Models
Optimal Quantization of CSI Feedback
JOURNAL PAPERS


M. Pugh and B.D. Rao, "Reduced Feedback Schemes Using Random Beamforming in MIMO Broadcast Channels," Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol.58, no.3, pp.1821-1832, March 2010
M. Pugh and B.D. Rao, "Reducing Feedback in Broadcast Channels via Thresholding," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
M. Pugh and B.D. Rao, "Greedy Scheduling and Proportional Fair Sharing Under i.i.d. Models," in preparation for submission

CONFERENCE PAPERS

M. Pugh and B.D. Rao, "On the Capacity of MIMO Broadcast Channels with Reduced Feedback by Antenna Selection," Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2008 42nd Asilomar Conference on, pp.728-732, 26-29 Oct. 2008
M. Pugh and B.D. Rao, "Feedback reduction in MIMO broadcast channels with LMMSE receivers," Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010 IEEE International Conference on, pp.3050-3053, 14-19 March 2010
M. Pugh and B.D. Rao, "Distributed Quantization of Order Statistics with Applications to CSI Feedback", Accepted Data Compression Conference, March 2011

Graduate Course Work

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Random Processes Stochastic Processes in Dynamical Systems Detection Theory
Array Processing Information Theory Network Information Theory
Source Coding Multiuser Communications Principles of Wireless Networks
MIMO Wireless Communications Digital Communications I & II Algebraic Coding
Statistical Learning Parameter Estimation I & II Convex Optimization

Mathematics
Mathematical Statistics I,II, & III Probability Theory I,II, & III Multivariate Analysis
Stochastic Processes Stochastic Differential Equations

Computer Science
Expander Graphs and Applications Online Learning Theory

Education

University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. in Electrical Engineering 2001-2005
B.S. in Applied Mathematics 2001-2005

University of California, San Diego
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2005-2008
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2005-present

Other Stuff

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